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  • Real estate investment trust LaSalle Hotel Properties on Monday batted down yet another takeover bid from Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, nearly a month after it agreed to be acquired by Blackstone fund Real Estate Partners VIII for $3.7bn. LaSalle owns 41 commercial properties across the US, including two high-end resorts in Key West and the luxury Gild Hall hotel in New York.
  • A flurry regulatory documents filed on Thursday and Friday point to a number of CMBS deals hitting the market this week, including conduit deals from Wells Fargo and UBS and several single asset-single borrow (SASB) deals. CRE CLOs are also on the radar, as that market experiences a "frenzy" of activity.
  • A pair of single borrower deals were priced this week — the hotel-backed AHTP 2018-ATRM and WFCM 2018-1745, a securitization of a $319m loan partially used to refinance an office complex on 1745 Broadway in New York. Meanwhile, the market for commercial real estate CLOs is showing no signs of fatigue.
  • Freddie Mac has issued a new multifamily CMBS offering from its K shelf, K-077, which is backed by a pool of mortgages on apartment properties. The deal marks Freddie Mac’s 21st K-Series deal of the year.
  • Goldman Sachs as sole arranger, lead manager and bookrunner announced a €235m CMBS, Kantoor Finance 2018 DAC, on Wednesday, the second CMBS of the year from the investment bank. It follows swiftly on the heels of its £427m Ribbon Finance deal, which was priced at the end of May.
  • Commercial real estate CLO issuance is on a tear in 2018, with $6.4bn already printed so far — including deals from stalwarts such as Blackstone and newcomers such as Silverpeak Argentic and Varde.
  • The excesses of the pre-crisis years in CMBS are a distant memory but a host of downside risks are emerging as the credit cycles reaches its peak, warned a panel of commercial real estate finance experts at the annual CREFC conference in New York on Tuesday.
  • US CMBS delinquency rates are at historic low levels despite retail bankruptcies and department store closures this year, casting doubt on the hedge funds which made big bets on ‘a Big Short’ style trade on the CMBX indices.
  • Analysts at Kroll Bond Rating Agency have predicted that more CMBS borrowers may elect to “defease” their collateralized bonds this year before rates creep higher, although investors say an overheated commercial real estate market could drag on prepayment rates.