Tag Archives: CMBS Issuance

There’s a buzz in the air and it’s CMBS!

Read time: 3 minutes 2021 is so far proving to be a stellar year for European CMBS, and if the current momentum continues 2021 will go down as a truly bumper year for the product.  Like many other financial transactions, despite a promising start to 2020, CMBS certainly ended up having a torrid ride on … Continue Reading

CMBS 2.0 – Standardisation the fuel for exponential growth

Whether you are a supporter of using CMBS to finance commercial real estate or not, the simple fact is that it provides an efficient mechanism to transfer commercial real estate loan risk away from the banking sector, whilst at the same time providing much needed transparency to the commercial real estate lending market. In light … Continue Reading

It is time for CMBS to flourish

Read time: 2 minutes 20 seconds The economic fallout of COVID-19 will be hugely significant for the European CMBS market, as a perfect testing environment has been created to truly examine the resilience and robustness of CMBS 2.0. Indeed, the impact of COVID-19 will be a true litmus test as to whether those structural reforms … Continue Reading

Italian reform and the latent potential for CMBS

Fuelled by continued macro-economic uncertainty, the European CMBS market is currently experiencing a prolonged period of malaise. Meanwhile the Italian legislative cogs have continued to turn. The news last week that the Italian government has finally approved a decree on NPL securitisations, which comes hot off the heels of the proposals to establish a private … Continue Reading

CMBS 2016: Tailwinds and wishes

Earlier this month I set out my CMBS predictions for 2016 in the Investment Adviser (Broadening the scope of CMBS loan issuance), where I predicted that macro-economic conditions would continue to challenge the re-establishment of CMBS as financing tool for European commercial real estate (CRE).  Indeed, the first few weeks of the year have done … Continue Reading

Agency CMBS – the perfect pill for a large loan CMBS pricing headache!

The recent below par pricing of two Goldman Sachs arranged CMBS deals demonstrate the potential perils of CMBS as a distribution tool for CRE debt.  Indeed, these two deals bring into stark focus the pricing quandary that currently confront many conduit lenders.  On the one hand, lenders are having to competitively price loans in a … Continue Reading

Agency CMBS – the sophisticated tool for raising cheaper commercial real estate debt!

As was the case prior to the global financial crisis, the current driver for all new European CMBS deals stems from the adoption by investment banks of the originate-to-distribute business model for financing commercial real estate assets.  This trend is showing no sign of abating in the CMBS 2.0 era with twenty of the twenty … Continue Reading
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