CMBS

GNMA executive Christopher Haspel is, more or less, a household name to lenders and servicers that deal with the government agency, and soon will be wearing a new hat—that of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Many commercial real estate investors are aggressively buying properties as they believe the industry's overall fundamentals are stabilizing and in certain sectors and regions, even improving, the second quarter PwC Real Estate Investor Survey found.

Barclays Capital has appointed Larry Kravetz and Spencer Kagan to its CMBS sector to expand its CMBS origination business.

No one could have predicted the speed of recovery in the commercial real estate space, said panelists speaking today at the American Securitization Forum’s 2011 annual meeting.

In May, the delinquency rate on U.S. CMBS loans fell four basis points to 9.18%.

Buysiders speaking at an investor roundtable panel said that understanding ABS collateral is key to structured finance recovery.

Recent data on macroeconomic forces in the market, such as lower than anticipated GDP and consumer confidence, have and will continue to play a large part in redefining expected future growth in commercial real estate, said panelists speaking at the CRE Finance Council's (CREFC) annual June convention in New York City.

At one of the panels at the Global ABS 2011 conference being held in Brussels this week, participants discussed the new data disclosure requirements from the European Central Bank (ECB).

There remains value in certain European ABS sectors despite their risk profile, said panelists at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe’s (AFME) and the Information Management Network’s Global ABS 2011 conference being held in Brussels this week.

The CRE Finance Council today announce the appointment of Jack M. Cohen as President of CREFC.