CMBS

The two investment firms recently obtained $1.1 billion in loans from Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank to purchase a 48.7% stake in the property from New York REIT, which previously owned 98.8%.

The second liens, which accompany CMBS first mortgages, range in size from $500,000 to $5 million, a segment of the market that is not well served by either banks or debt funds.

With online retailers beginning to challenge the dominance of brick-and-mortar grocery stores, CRE loans to strip mails anchored by them look riskier.

The investment firm recently obtained an $800 million mortgage from Goldman Sachs that was used to refinance $753.1 million of debt on 138 Marriott and Hilton-branded hotels acquired between 2007 and 2015.

The bill provides clarity to capital requirements to certain acquisition, development and construction loans are assigned a higher risk weighting under Basel III.

The private equity firm obtained $582.5 million in financing from Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan; proceeds were used to refinance $510 million of debt and return $52.2 million of equity to the sponsor.

A report released Friday calls risk retention "an imprecise mechanism" for encouraging the alignment of interest between sponsors and investors. It recommends creating loan-specific requirements under which managers would receive relief.

The $456.9 million LCCM 2017-FLI is secured by 19 commercial mortgages, the largest of them an amended and restated loan on Two Gateway, an office building in downtown Newark, New Jersey.

Trepp reports that further declines are possible as the wave of maturing pre-crisis mortgages appears to have been reduced to more of a ripple.

The amount of commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding ticked up from April through June, yet the balance of loans in commercial mortgage-backed securities continued its decline.