by admin | Aug 15, 2013 | Blog |
By Kevin Duty – CMBS loans are notorious for their rigid and “mystical” restrictions on what can and can’t be done with loan terms and collateral after the loan closes. Since securitized loans serve as the collateral for investment grade bonds, the U.S....
by admin | Jul 10, 2013 | Blog |
Just like the movie, food falling from the sky seems too good to be true at first but there can be a downside, especially when the food is so big it has damaging effects! CMBS origination volumes started out at about $15 Billion a year in 1995 and rose to an all-time...
by admin | Jun 10, 2013 | Blog |
The first preferable thing to do when your loan matures is to pay it off, of course. If your CMBS loan matures in 2013 or 2014, your loan has probably been amortizing for the last 8 – 9 years and the initial leverage wasn’t egregious, so absent some property or...
by admin | May 28, 2013 | Blog |
CMBS Workouts are “Negotiations,” Just Not in the Normal Sense! Clients often retain us, thinking we are going to “negotiate” a resolution to their workout scenario, just like we were negotiating with a bank, or with a car salesman; we make an offer,...
by admin | Apr 17, 2013 | Blog |
Across the globe investors are on a scavenger hunt for yield. As Central Banks continue to distort the money supply, yields in the traditionally safe segment of the market are effectively zero, after accounting for inflation. This has in no doubt helped fuel the rise...
by admin | Apr 11, 2013 | Blog |
Nothing! I had an attorney tell me very early in my career that things that seem logical outside of the courtroom are often not logical inside the courtroom. It seems to be the same for CMBS workouts. What seems logical outside of CMBS workouts is not necessarily...
