Kroll Bond Rating Agency

A large portion of the collateral for the $1.06 billion IH-2018-SFR1 is being rolled over from two transactions originally issued in 2015.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority is marketing its fifth transaction financing local residential solar-panel installations; all of the notes carry an A rating from Kroll.

The credit quality of the collateral appears to have improved, but investor protections have also decreased; as a result, Kroll is only assigning an 'A' to the senior tranche of notes.

Varde VMC Lender, a Minneapolis firm specializing in distressed commercial real estate, has branched out to financing offices and apartment buildings being upgraded or repurposed.

The Salt Lake City-based lender homes in on troubled borrowers whose subprime status is primarily tied to a recent bankruptcy protection filing.

Proceeds from the first jet-lease securitization of 2018 will be used to acquire 24 widebody and narrowbody planes contracted to 16 airlines in 14 countries.

The lender's first deal of the year is sized at $750 million, in line with its two prior offerings, but the amount of collateral has been significantly increased, to over $1 billion.

The Alpharetta, Ga.-based manager of Hilton, InterContinental, Marriott and other branded hotels recently obtained a $600 million mortgage from three banks: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase.

The Dan Gilbert-controlled skyscraper has apportioned $70M of a $102M whole-loan refinancing to the Wells conduit.

The new deal is smaller, at $130.1 million, and the collateral is almost entirely of PV systems financed through third-party loan agreements.