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Investors say data centre deals are pricing wider than other types of CMBS
Eight new managers have printed deals in 2026 with another, Oaktree, set to launch its inaugural deal.
Private credit managers have raised $16bn in north America this year while fund managers are sitting on a record $56bn globally of dry powder to deploy in commecial real estate
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In the past year, ownership of several commercial mortgage-backed securities special servicers has changed hands to opportunistic investors or funds. -
The vagueness of the phrase “implied guarantee” hit markets hard in the 2008 financial crisis, when investors wised up to the fact that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s governmental backing and status as government sponsored enterprises was untested and undefined.
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The continuing slump in the U.S. housing market has highlighted the crucial role of mortgage servicers, which administer all aspects of these loans—from collecting payments, to modifying troubled loans, to proceeding with foreclosures and property liquidations when borrowers default.
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The qualified residential mortgage rules currently being hammered out by regulators should ease up from initial proposals, unless the government wants to see the mortgage market shrink even further, said speakers at the “Mortgage Underwriting and the Impact of QM” panel.
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The U.K. Financial Services Authority is seeking comment on how the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive will affect securitization investments, as part of a wider discussion on the Directive’s U.K. implementation.
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Dutch lender Obvion has returned to the European securitization market with a EUR700 million ($910.4 million) issue of prime Dutch residential mortgage-backed securities from its Storm program.
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U.S. structured finance faces a somewhat hazy outlook next year with improving performance metrics clouded by numerous macro-level economic, political and regulatory uncertainties.
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Fees charged by special servicers of commercial mortgage-backed securities loans have caused about $74 million in deal-level losses to investors over the last four years, according to Deutsche Bank research analyst Harris Trifon.
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Delinquencies in loans in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities were above 9% in 2011, closing December up to 9.32%, compared with 8.79% a year earlier, according to Moody’s Investors Service.
