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About $430 billion in commercial and multifamily debt, more than half of which is held by banks, is maturing in 2021, with fresh capital needed to head off a tsunami of defaults.

Industrial warehouses, including cold storage facilities, are among the best-performing categories of commercial real estate as hotels, malls and offices face uncertain futures in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Three major commercial mortgage lenders have teamed up again this year to securitize $871 million in properties in a CMBS deal that provides investors with a highly concentrated loan pool and higher leverage.

Brookfield's Capital Automotive is marketing a new series of bonds secured by revenues from property sale-leaseback agreements with large auto dealer groups.

The ballot measure, which would allow local jurisdictions to expand rent control, had concerned mortgage companies who worried the law would result in a patchwork of different policies that could complicate underwriting and discourage lending.

Many eateries that relied on outdoor dining to survive the pandemic could see revenues plummet as the weather turns cold.

Property debt funds, including at Blackstone Group Inc., raised $14.1 billion from April through September, compared with $15.7 billion a year earlier, according to research firm Preqin Ltd. Yet the expected flood of deals has so far been just a trickle.

Three nonprofits look to create or preserve 10,000 units, vowing to fight off firms like Blackstone and Colony Capital, which bought up foreclosed homes after Great Recession.

For decades lawmakers have ignored broad structural flaws in the National Flood Insurance Program, which underpins millions of home mortgages. And the problem is only getting worse.

The Charlotte, N.C., company recently closed on a sale of its Cohen Financial platform to SitusAMC.