CMBS

Americold Realty Operating Partnership is in the market with a $600 million securitization backed by cold storage facilities. The deal is called Americold 2010 Trust Series 2010-ART.

Cole Real Estate Investments hired Jeffrey Holland as head of capital markets and executive vice president.

The aggregate value of commercial real estate (CRE) loans priced by DebtX that back CMBS rose to 80.9% as of Oct. 29 from 80.5% as of Sept. 30. Loan values were 76.9% at October 30, 2009.

With foreclosures at an elevated level since the mortgage crisis broke out, the Mortgage Electronic Registry System (MERS) has come under scrutiny.

The commercial real estate (CRE) market, and CMBS as a component of this sector, has not been immune from the problems brought on by the financial crisis.

The European securitization market saw the return of regular new issuance with approximately €75 billion ($98.2 billion) distributed to end investors year-to-date. However, the uptick in primary volumes is still dwarfed by the retained securitizations that remain on issuers balance sheets.

ABS market players have certainly learned their lesson from the problems that led to the financial crisis.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) put on hold one change that could have shuttered the ABS market starting in early January. But a long line of proposals marching into 2011 will keep ABS compliance departments busy and, in some cases, may fundamentally alter the market.

Many segments of U.S. structured finance were forced to play defense to varying degrees during the last few years in light of this past economic recession. Much of 2010 was viewed as a year of 'lessons learned'. But now with the economic recovery slowly underway, we may finally begin to see U.S. structured finance turn the corner towards stability in 2011. Fitch's Rating Outlook for U.S. structured finance is Stable.

The delinquency rate in November jumped 35 basis points overall, which is the largest increase since May 2010, TreppWire reported.