CMBS

CRE Finance Council Europe (CREFC Europe) has appointed Peter Denton as chair-elect of the group.

Dallas-based Metropolitan Capital Advisors (MCA), has successfully secured a permanent financing package with a CMBS lender for the refinance of the Sunwest portfolio—a collection of 25 single and multi-tenant properties scattered across 8 states.

The CRE Finance Council Europe and Ernst & Young released a joint European commercial real estate lending tax guide.

In a note released this morning, Standard & Poor's analysts said that without the potential regulatory hurdles, the conduit B-piece demand will be sufficient to support the estimated CMBS issuance this year.

The CMBS market paralleled broader markets last week with buyers preparing for quarter end. The spreads were roughly unchanged week-over-week as trading volume slowed, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts.

New York-based commercial real estate (CRE) finance firm Ladder Capital Finance Holdings appointed Michael Mazzei as president.

In competitive sports, being first is always the goal. But the distance between the U.S. — at the head of the pack — and the rest of the world in crafting financial reforms is becoming a major hurdle for implementing the Dodd-Frank Act.

Redwood Trust's second Jumbo RMBS for 2012 under its Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-2 or SEMT 2012-2 is currently marketing. The transaction is worth $327.9 million.

In a report released today, Deutsche Bank Securities analysts examined the impact of Eastman Kodak Co.’s (Kodak) bankruptcy on the Hollywood and Highland loan in WFRBS 2011-C2.

Freddie Mac is marketing its first K-Certificates offering backed exclusively by five-year multifamily mortgages.