CMBS

This time it’s the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, a 950-room, full-service resort. A $365 million first mortgage on the property from Morgan Stanley is being securitized via MSC 2017-JWDR.

A $40 million slice of the original, $600 million mortgage on the 2 million-square-foot portfolio is one of the largest of 38 loans used as collateral in UBS 2017-C6, a $684.7 million conduit.

The properties have a total of 1,228 rooms, or "keys" located across four major U.S. cities: San Francisco (346 keys; 39.4% of allocated loan amount), Chicago (429 keys; 26.4%), Boston (178 keys; 18.2%) and Philadelphia (275 keys; 16%).

The private equity firm obtained a $540 million loan on the JW Marriott Grande Lakes and the Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes, which are situated on 500 acres at the headwaters of the Everglades, from Barclays and Wells Fargo.

The securitization market is weathering risk retention and rising interest rates, though Fitch Ratings is keeping its eye on some consumer asset classes as the credit cycle lengthens.

A total of 191 properties, or 11.4% of the 1,598 in the pool, were previously securitized in transactions completed in 2014 and 2015 and repaid using a portion of the proceeds from a 2016 transaction.

The largest loan is for the first phase of State Farm’s two-year-old Park Center Phase 1 office tower complex that the firm constructed in Dunwoody, Ga.

The $785 million transaction, 2017-C41, is backed by a pool of 52 loans with an average balance of just $15.1 million, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency; retail, hotel and office properties dominate the mix.

A mortgage on the marquee Caesars Palace Las Vegas is being used as collateral for $1.6 billion of mortgage bonds; proceeds will be used to repay existing indebtedness.

The delinquency rate for U.S. commercial real estate loans in CMBS is now 5.21%, a decrease of 19 basis points from the September level, according to Trepp. That is the second-largest rate drop measured in the last 19 months.