The 12-story, 110-unit mixed-use (multifamily and retail) building in DC’s Union Market neighborhood sold at a foreclosure auction today for $38,300,000.00. Silver Spring-based HH Fund is the purchaser. PropertyQuest (DC Office of Planning) indicates the 2024 assessment for the property … Continue reading →
A deed in lieu of foreclosure (also known as a deed in lieu) is a deed instrument that conveys title of a property encumbered by a mortgage, to the mortgagee, usually in full satisfaction of the obligation secured by the … Continue reading →
A total 576 U.S. banks exceeded regulatory guidance on CRE loan concentration by the end of Q1–2023, an increase of 30.3 percent compared with a year earlier, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Regulators increase their scrutiny of banks that … Continue reading →
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation reports that as of 2021, the country’s household debt was at 107 percent of its GDP, and its “very high levels of household debt … makes the economy vulnerable to any global economic crisis.” … Continue reading →
Westfield has decided to surrender the nine-story San Francisco Centre mall to its lenders, according to The Real Deal, which reports that the firm—owned by Paris-based Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and its partner, New York-based Brookfield Properties—will cease making payments on a $558 … Continue reading →
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “[a]dvance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for May 2023, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $686.6 billion, up 0.3 percent (±0.5 percent)* … Continue reading →
According to a Liff, Walsh & Simmons publication, an Indemnity Deed of Trust (IDOT) is “a deed of trust granted by one or more of the guarantors of a loan who are pledging their real property as collateral, rather than … Continue reading →
The U.S. CMBS delinquency rate increased by 15 basis points to 1.85 percent in May from 1.70 percent in April, marking the largest month-over-month increase since October 2020, according to Fitch Ratings, which provides the following delinquency rate breakdown by … Continue reading →
A CRE CLO (commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation) is a securitization vehicle the underlying assets of which are short-term (usually three to five years), floating-rate loans collateralized by transitional properties. CRE CLOs are actively managed by an asset manager … Continue reading →
Higher interest rates, decreased demand in the office sector and a rise in defaults have put the brakes on the CMBS market. Bloomberg reports that only about $4.27 billion in commercial mortgage bonds have been issued so far this year, … Continue reading →