

-  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. May 31
-  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. May 30
-  Nationstar Mortgage is issuing its seventh securitization of nonperforming reverse mortgages. May 22
-  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. May 19
-  JPMorgan Chase is marketing another offering of bonds backed by a mix of conforming and jumbo residential mortgages, according to Moody's Investors Service. May 19
-  Goldman Sachs is marketing nearly $1 billion of commercial mortgage bonds backed primarily by office and retail properties. May 16
-  The next single-asset CMBS to hit the market is backed by the land under an iconic Manhattan address known as the Lipstick Building. May 5
-  Late payments on loans securing commercial mortgage-backed securities rose in April as borrowers failed to make balloon payments on maturing loans. May 3
-  Firms that offer loans to small-time landlords have been slow to tap the securitization market. May 3
-  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. April 27
