CMBS

Home Partners of America is securitizing a portfolio of single family rental homes with a unique feature: the tenants lease-to-own.

Walker & Dunlop has agreed to acquire the other half of a commercial mortgage-backed securities joint venture it has with Fortress Investment Group.

Amherst Holdings plans to market $400 million worth of bonds backed by single family rental homes.

The Federal Open Markets Committee's recent move to raise short-term interest rates has commercial real estate debt and equity financing markets even more upbeat about their prospects in 2016.

The oil bust wreaking havoc on North Dakota’s economy also threatens to drain cashflows from $125 million of commercial mortgage backed securities, Morningstar Credit Ratings said in a Dec. 30 report.

Cantor Commercial Real Estate Lending is the first out the gate with a commercial mortgage securitization this year.

Most foreign investors expect to put more money into U.S. property this year than they did in 2015, with New York remaining the top target market worldwide, according to a survey by the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate.

The strong recovery in commercial real estate has enabled borrowers to resolve a lot of problem loans made before the financial crisis, but Fitch Ratings continues to expect no recoveries from "hope notes."

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RAIT Financial Trust said Thursday it closed on its fifth commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation