Commercial Mortgage Debt Rallies as TALF Ending: Credit Markets
BusinessWeek
A $3 billion mortgage on the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village apartment complex in Manhattan, the largest loan in the commercial-mortgage bond market, ...

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Slow return expected for global CMBS market
Reuters UK
LONDON (Reuters) - The market for commercial mortgage-back securities (CMBS) will take many years to return, and will be mostly be confined to ...

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Lenders advised to focus on commercial mortgage books
Banking Times
The study, entitled “UK Commercial Real Estate Debt – a Two-Tier Market”, claims over half of the outstanding debt is due to mature before the end of 2012 ...

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TwentyFour launches commercial mortgage-backed security fund
Citywire.co.uk
The fund will focus on UK and European debt which was initially rated AAA and AA and has a minimum investment of £5 million. Liquidity is quarterly after an ...
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Halabi Companies Fail to Fix Mortgage Bonds Default
Bloomberg
White Tower is the largest commercial mortgage bond sold by a single borrower to default this year in Britain, which is Europe's largest market and accounts ...

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UK's CMBS market on shaky ground
Breakingviews
Despite a 43% slump in commercial real-estate prices since mid-2007, asset valuations underpinning much of the UK's £42bn of commercial mortgage securities ...

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S&P cuts may split CMBS market, not undo TALF - RBS
Reuters
"There are still all sorts of bonds that qualify," Sedmak told reporters after a panel hosted by the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association in New York. But "all you do is bifurcate the market, and let S&P be the factor," he added. ...

Top US commercial mortgage bonds staying AAA-Fitch
Reuters
Fitch's expectations come four days after S&P rattled the $700 billion commercial bond market by projecting 95 percent of bonds issued during the peak year of 2007 may be cut from "AAA," based on a plan that would make its rating methods more ...
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Mortgage Brain offers commercial mortgage sourcing
Mortgage Strategy, UK
Brokers can now source commercial mortgage deals for their clients via Optimus Commercial, Fiducia's whole of market sourcing system. The system lists over 100 lenders and offers commercial loans from mainstream, sub-prime and specialist lenders. ...
Mortgage Brain partners with Fiducia to offer commercial sourcing Mortgage Introducer
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Freddie eyes $1 billion commercial mortgage bond: source
Reuters
The sale from the government-controlled company could signal some life in the market for mortgage securities that has been the scourge of global financial institutions for weak underwritings and falling asset values. Freddie Mac is expected to back the ...
Changing Heads at Fannie's Single-Family Business Housing Wire
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Freddie eyes $1 bln commercial mortgage bond-source Reuters India
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