CMBS

Wells Fargo has tightened up a few credit characteristics in its latest offering of $826 million in commercial mortgage-backed securities notes.

The pool of pass-through commercial mortgage-backed securities is mostly made up of single-family and multifamily residences.

Investors are pouring money into bonds backed by U.S. offices, shrugging off concerns about whether workers will ever fill them up like they did before the pandemic.

The conduit transaction will carry a $120 million portion of a $750 million debt financing package for Facebook's newly built Oculus R&D center near San Francisco.

The two buildings included in the single-borrower transaction were both 94.8% leased as of February 2021.

Horizon Land Co. is securitizing a $488 million single-asset, single-borrower loan that will fund its purchase of 93 rent-site communities in the Midwest and Southwest regions.

The lasting effects of work-from-home practices driven by the COVID-19 pandemic could slash some office property values to less than half of their original value – and lead to rating downgrades on affected CMBS transactions, according to Fitch Ratings.

Troubled properties aren’t coming to market because owners have little pressure to sell. Commercial real estate prices have held up – or even risen – because so much money is chasing so few deals.

The delinquency rate on regional mall commercial mortgage-backed securities was 22.9% in February, the highest of any real estate category, according to Moody’s

The Blackstone-affiliated company recently took out a cash-out refi mortgage for a 17-property portfolio, an opportunity aided by high demand for its R&D facilities for COVID-19 research.