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Affordable housing borrowers looking for permanent loans are finding more success using Fannie Mae's MBS than Freddie Mac's CME.
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The CMBS sector's recovery has temporarily run out of steam, as Standard & Poor's abrupt actions send the industry into disarray.
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Prudential Mortgage Capital shut down its conduit operations in 2008, but the firm is now ready to jump back in through a joint venture with Perella Weinberg Partners.
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Steve Boyack, senior vice president of Denver-based The Laramar Group, happened to be driving near Philadelphia with company CEO Dave Woodward a year ago when they decided to check out a property they sold in 2005.
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CMBS pricing has steadily dropped this year, so much so that some conduits are now quoting rates on high-end acquisition deals that are comparable to what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are offering.
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As fundamentals and transactions continue to rise in the apartment industry, the additions to apartment distress slipped $3 billion in the first quarter, which was the lowest level of additions since the third quarter of 2008, according to New York-based research firm Real Capital Analytics (RCA).
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In February 2009, The Bethany Group, an Irvine, Calif.-based apartment owner, made headlines when it essentially abandoned its Phoenix portfolio. Though it filed for bankruptcy protection in March 2009, many of its portfolios are still in so much flux (even under new ownership) that its making the...
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Berkadia and Walker & Dunlop recently opened their CMBS platforms, KeyBank and Marcus & Millichap closed their first CMBS loans in ages, plus several encouraging signs are gathering for the sector.
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Why special servicers are ending up with CMBS assets, and what it could do to the multifamily industry.
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Borrowers Finding Servicers More Amenable to Payoffs