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The latest conduit CMBS offering was priced on Friday, with lead banks selling the top rated, 10 year bonds at the same post-crisis tight level achieved by the offering that kicked off 2018 a week earlier. -
US retailer Sears announced its intention on Tuesday to swap unsecured and senior secured debt into new payment-in-kind notes that could be converted into common stock. Seeing this as a distressed debt exchange, Fitch Ratings quickly downgraded the retailer to C.
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The US CMBS industry is clawing back market share in real estate lending by targeting high end hotel and office properties with single loan deals. But lenders have had to loosen their standards to do so, and the proliferation of single loan deals will concentrate risk in a market designed to diversify it.
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The first CMBS conduit deal was priced on Friday, with spreads at the top of the capital structure falling to post-crisis tight levels, reflecting the rise in the 10 year Treasury rate and the move in swap spreads.
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A typically slow start for new US CMBS issuance this year has led to spreads tightening in the secondary market, though the primary pipeline is bracing itself for a surge of deals.
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US retailer Sears has landed a $100m private secured term loan, with a potential further $200m to be secured against the collateral, after the firm announced a fresh batch of store closures that Morningstar said could cause trouble for 16 CMBS loans.
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A single borrower CMBS deal in the works from Natixis is set to be among the first in the asset class in 2018.
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Brian Ford, head of structured finance research at Kroll Bond Rating Agency, told GlobalCapital this week that the strong risk on investor sentiment seen this year will carry into 2018, but added that autos and non-agency MBS volumes could decline from 2017 levels.
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Issuers have flocked to the CMBS market with deals this month, including the largest commercial real estate CLO since the crisis. With a seven potential deals still to close before year end, this December could be the busiest in a decade, said Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts.
