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The FDIC is launching joint ventures to market $33 billion of commercial real estate loans from the failed Signature Bank, prioritizing its statutory obligation to preserve low-income housing availability.

Some 23 tenants occupy the data center complex in Illinois, which accounted for 86.7% of total square footage and 86.8% of rentable power. The property has a net operating income of $62.7 million, and cap rate of 6.70%.

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is offering to exchange any and all of its €1.25 billion ($1.37 billion) notes, which currently pay a coupon of 2.125%, with a new bond paying 7.25% and a cash amount.

Multifamily properties account for the vast majority of the initial pool balance, at 86.2%, DBRS said, which is a plus because multifamily properties typically have lower default rates than other CMBS property types.

Economic analysis from the real estate advisory CBRE finds that community banks are particularly imperiled by their exposure to commercial real estate loans. Others see looming risks in indirect lending.

But when compared past periods of upheaval, those rates remain relatively low, the Mortgage Bankers Association report showed.

The beleaguered bank said it is selling 74 loans totaling about $2.6 billion to a subsidiary of Kennedy-Wilson Holdings. The move is part of a plan to pursue strategic asset sales, trim expenses and shore up its balance sheet.

Banks could be in for a long, slow trickle of bank failures and consolidation in the coming months and years, particularly if inflation persists and interest rates keep rising. A downturn in commercial real estate could add to banks' problems.

As FDIC seeks a buyer for the remaining assets left after its sale of most of Signature Bank to Flagstar Bank, the agency has announced $60 billion in deposits — including some New York City commercial real-estate loans — will be on the market by this summer.

The figures reaffirm that the Fed's quest to tame inflation will be bumpy as the economy has largely proven resilient to a year's worth of interest-rate hikes.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg said that the rise of hybrid and remote work, alongside rising interest rates, could be creating lingering risk in the maturity of some bank loans.

Lenders navigate commercial property assessed clean energy (C-PACE) as a lower-cost source of commercial real estate finance, priming the pipeline for ABS.

The CFPB is requesting input on adding specifications that are intended to alleviate TRID compliance concerns on construction-to-permanent single-close loans and those requiring separate construction and home loan closings.

AFG ABS will repay the notes on a sequential-pro rata basis, and classes A-1 and A-2 will repay note interest on a pro rata basis.

The security driving the revenue to the bonds is a tariff on customers' monthly bills, in line with the "U.S. Utility Tariff/Stranded Cost Bonds Rating Criteria."

Solar Mosaic offers loans for residential solar energy systems with tenors of five to 25 years, a decrease of 10 to 30 years under previous loan offerings.

PACE financings expected to accelerate lending for energy-efficient projects under new Inflation Reduction Act: DBRS Morningstar report.

The move comes amid dwindling advances and a growing concern that the Home Loan banks are participating in riskier investments.

Led by Rep. French Hill, the group of conservative lawmakers said the agency must do more to ensure appropriate transparency regarding any new products or activities that the enterprises undertake.

The securitization has a reserve account of 1% of the initial series note balance funded fully at closing.