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Blackstone originally included 21 of the 23 properties as collateral for a $2 billion loan issuance and securitization in 2016 to partially fund its $8.8B BioMed Realty buyout.

The investment firm obtained $430 million of financing on its leasehold interests in 355,000 square feet of retail and office space, but it just lost its one office tenant, Amtrak.

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Two of the loans, or 10% of the $730 million of collateral, are secured by buildings that derive considerable income from parking, which Kroll Bond Rating Agency warns can fluctuate.

Collateral for the mortgage bonds does not include what Moody's Investors Service terms the "improvements," a 42-story building, state-of-the-art digital signage or a 452-room luxury hotel.

The overall delinquency rate for securitized U.S. commercial real estate loans is now 4.36%, a decrease of 19 basis points from the March level.

Banyan Street Capital and Balandis Real Estate are tapping the commercial mortgage bond market to help finance the revitalization of a mixed-use development in downtown Atlanta.

The €300 million Taurus 2018-1 also finances Italian retail assets that the Partners Group, based in Switzerland, purchased from the Blackstone Group in February.

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (formerly Hunton & Williams and Andrews Kurth Kenyon) has named Robert A. Davis Jr. as special counsel in its tax and ERISA practice.

Borrowers can get better rates elsewhere, so they're repaying ahead of schedule, leaving banks in the lurch. The steps lenders would have to take to keep the business could be prohibitively expensive.