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JPM sticks to full-year forecast for now but refi conditions not so attractive and new loans get more expensive
Office drives surge in CMBS conduit delinquencies as borrowers adapt
GSE brings both small and large balance trades with only one other CMBS deal marketing
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Noteholder payments have been deferred in a tranche of UK CMBS backed by university halls of residence after the accommodation operator refunded student’s their rent, putting the loan sponsor in the position of having to speculate on demand recovery following the coronavirus outbreak which saw universities shuttered. -
A group of lawmakers led by Texas Republican Van Taylor has sent a letter this week to secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell, urging them to address the ‘looming crisis’ in the commercial real estate market, particularly for struggling borrowers saddled with CMBS debt.
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The Basel Committee has proposed tweaks to its securitization rules to ease non-performing loan sales — but it hasn’t gone as far as market participants would like, and has rowed back from proposals tabled by the European Banking Authority last October, which would have cut capital requirements much further.
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Thai conglomerate DTGO Corporation has injected £17.5m ($21.72m) of equity for its hotel-backed Magenta CMBS in exchange for default waivers, propping up the deal for the next six months until the Covid-19 pandemic hopefully subsides.
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Reforms to personal bankruptcy regimes in various countries along the lines of the US Chapter 13 code could improve non-performing loan (NPL) markets by boosting transparency and certainty, according to Charles Rusbasan, chief executive of Balbec Capital, which has just raised a new $1.2bn fund to buy NPLs where borrowers are subject to insolvency proceedings, restructuring or other forms of distress.
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Loans packaged into US commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) delinquent by 30 days or more have quadrupled, according to remittance reports published in May, as the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic ripples through the financial system. Market participants fear record levels of distress if borrowers that are now in their grace periods add to the figures in the coming month, writes Max Adams.
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CMBS issuers have come back to market in recent weeks, bringing deals structured to entice investors with features meant to withstand the shocks of the pandemic. But investors say that there are still concerns around adding exposure to commercial mortgages written before the crisis.
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New ABS contracts are being written to exclude pandemics from the scope of ‘force majeure’ clauses, inserted to allow servicers to step away from their commitments if events outside of their control – such as the outbreak of Covid-19 – stop them from servicing portfolios.
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The fallout from the Covid-19 crisis has touched nearly every economic and employment sector, from the largest corporations to the smallest businesses. The pain has prompted an unprecedented policy response aimed at rescuing economies and markets, and further measures are likely to come. US commercial real estate has been especially impacted, with commercial mortgage lending slowing dramatically, already struggling retailers going dark across the country and a likely rethinking of the use of space following a nationwide experiment in working from home.
