Allison Bisbey

A real estate investment fund controlled by the Blackstone Group is tapping the commercial mortgage bond market to refinance a portfolio of life science, laboratory and medical properties.

DLJ Mortgage Capital, a subsidiary of Credit Suisse, is securitizing $91 million of loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration that were once delinquent but are now making timely payments.

Nationstar Mortgage is issuing its seventh securitization of nonperforming reverse mortgages.

The trend of putting ever-smaller pieces of the same commercial mortgages into multiple securitizations requires investors to be extra careful, and will inevitably make workouts of bad loans more complicated.

JPMorgan Chase is marketing another offering of bonds backed by a mix of conforming and jumbo residential mortgages, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Goldman Sachs is marketing nearly $1 billion of commercial mortgage bonds backed primarily by office and retail properties.

The next single-asset CMBS to hit the market is backed by the land under an iconic Manhattan address known as the Lipstick Building.

Late payments on loans securing commercial mortgage-backed securities rose in April as borrowers failed to make balloon payments on maturing loans.

Firms that offer loans to small-time landlords have been slow to tap the securitization market.

The Trump administration's initial tax plan may be short on details, but a bipartisan bill offers some very specific relief for the commercial real estate industry.

Caliber Home Loans' next nonprime mortgage securitization is nearly twice as large as its previous deal, completed in December.

The real estate investment trust has become a regular issuer, relying on a strategy of exercising "clean-up calls" on older mortgage bonds that it services.

More renters are optimistic about their financial situations and expect to stay where they are even if their rents increased.

Global Index Group has developed a new product based on the NCREIF Property Index, which measures the performance of some $525 billion of CRE held on behalf of tax-exempt institutions.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages rose again in March, led by industrial and retail property loans.

Freddie Mac has obtained two new insurance policies under its Agency Credit Insurance Structure program.

Fannie Mae has obtained reinsurance for $510 million of credit losses on $20.4 billion of single-family residential mortgages through a pair of credit insurance risk transfer transactions.

Shellpoint is marketing another offering of private-label mortgage bonds backed primarily by loans it acquired rather than loans originated by its own New Penn subsidiary.

Wells Fargo's next offering of commercial mortgage bonds is unusually concentrated in a relatively small number of large loans, though many are high-quality properties located in strong markets.

Goldman Sachs is selling $1.02 billion of bonds refinancing the Blackstone Group's acquisition of the Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower.