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U.K. property developer MEPC will fully refinance its £470 million ($752.4 million) loan securitized in the Opera Finance (MEPC) commercial mortgage-backed securitization later this month, a year ahead of the July 2012 loan maturity date.
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Analysts at Société Générale argued this week that Deutsche Bank’s Chiswick Park CMBS deal did not deserve to be called a market re-opening, while Deutsche’s real estate team will be hoping it was, as they market the repackaged Eirles Two 355 CMBS.
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Austin-based broker dealer Tejas Securities Group is expanding into high-grade securitization, appointing Samir Shah, former head of asset and mortgage-backed securities at MF Global, to its sales and trading desk.
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The Bank of England’s Special Liquidity Scheme, which allowed U.K. firms to swap mortgage-backed securities for more tradable assets during the height of the financial crisis, has seen repayments reach £148 billion ($237.2 billion), indicating a major boost for the securitization mart in the U.K., according to industry officials in London.
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Investors in residential mortgage-backed securities affected by today’s Bank of America-Merrill Lynch settlement with investors are testing the market’s appetite for their positions, according to John Hierl, head of RMBS trading at StormHarbour Securities.
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Morgan Stanley has priced a rare $498 million re-REMIC of interest-only commercial mortgage-backed securities bonds. Only a handful of deals of this kind have ever hit the market.
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Investors in London are seeing promise in the workout of Europe’s legacy commercial mortgage-backed securities conduit deals.
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Fannie Mae 5% coupons could be among the most heavily affected by the Treasury Market Practices Group’s proposed penalty on failed agency mortgage-backed securities transactions, according to James Nimberg, executive director and head of specified trading at Morgan Stanley.
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Barclays Capital is planning to market a new U.S. commercial mortgage securitization in the next two weeks, according to an official at the firm.