CMBS

Clarion Partners will tap the CMBS market to help finance a multiyear renovation of older Courtyard by Marriott-branded hotel properties it co-owns through a joint venture.

The loan participation is part of a debt refinancing package that paves the way for expanding the Parkmerced mega-development.

Treasure Island Hotel & Casino is the latest Las Vegas casino tapping the commercial-mortgage securitization market as it winds up a multi-year, exhaustive renovation program.

Natixis will be marketing bonds as well loan-specific certificates tied to a $160 million first-mortgage taken secured by an Amazon headquarters building in Seattle, and a $92.5 million loan backed by a newly built addition to NYC's sprawling Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center campus.

The newly acquired industrial portfolio of transportation centers in major markets adds to Blackstone's global holdings of logistics properties in major transit hubs.

Macro factors point to a solid year in the securitization market but wild cards abound, many of them political.

The delinquency rate for commercial mortgage-backed securities ended 2019 at its lowest point in nearly 11 years, aided by increased issuance and the resolution of legacy transactions, Fitch Ratings said.

A New York-based real estate investment firm is financing its acquisition of a portfolio of nationally branded hotels in the commercial mortgage securitization market, via Goldman Sachs.

The five largest loans in the pool are each $60 million participations in larger whole loans, including a portion of a $1.6 billion loan recently underwritten for the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Bridge REIT LLC is sponsoring a securitization backed mostly by transitional and rehab multifamily properties via Wells Fargo.