CMBS

Real estate investment trust W.P. Carey & Co. continues to show appetite for self-storage facilities with another reported acquisition of units.

Protestors with Occupy Wall Street continue to target properties tied to CMBS transactions, a Trepp report said.

The folks at law firm Dechert put out their annual golden turkey awards for dubious achievements in the commercial real estate market, a few of which are perfectly applicable to other areas of structured finance.

The delinquency rate for loans in U.S. CMBS dropped seven basis points in October to 9.29%, according to Moody's Investors Service's latest Delinquency Tracker (DQT).

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) arranged a $120 million refinancing for nine full-service hotels on behalf of Investcorp. These loans will later be securitized in an adjustable rate deal.

Operating Company/Property Company or OpCo-PropCo real estate structures need "creative thinking" with the impending refinancing challenge on the horizon, according to a report by European structuring and advisory services firm Bishopsfield Capital Partners released yesterday.

ING Investment Management (ING IM) U.S. market strategists might not agree on everything, but one notion is clear: the U.S. will avert a recession in 2012.

Chicago,IL-based Clopton Capital plans to create larger conduits for lending CMBS loans.

November remittance data showed that the $192 million loan backed by the Manhattan Apartment Portfolio was liquidated. According to Barclays Capital CMBS analysts, if the loan's disposition strategy is right, this might be considered the largest note sale ever in CMBS.

The Royal Bank of Scotland filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday to issue a CMBS under its Commercial Mortgage Passthrough Certificates trust.