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    MBS
    Angel Oak prices first social-bond RMBS transaction

    The deal was constructed under Angel Oak’s social-bond framework, in which the firm intends to use the proceeds to help finance residential loans for underserved borrowers.

    By Glen Fest
    May 17
  • CMBS
    Miami Design District refi loan wrapped into BofA's latest conduit

    The 30-acre luxury retail development is among four investment-grade-worthy loans included in the multiborrower deal.

    By Glen Fest
    May 5
  • CMBS
    Extra Space portfolio highlights $817M Morgan Stanley CMBS

    A new commercial-mortgage loan for seven facilities operated by the self-storage REIT is the largest of 41 loans in the conduit deal.

    By Glen Fest
    April 27
  • RMBS
    National Mortgage debuts MI-linked credit-risk transfer platform

    Oaktree Re VI 2021-1 will market $531 million in CRT notes that will provide NMI with partial reinsurance on a $45B pool of GSE-eligible loans.

    By Glen Fest
    April 14
  • CMBS
    Facebook's VR site highlights pool assets in $1.2B Goldman CMBS

    The conduit transaction will carry a $120 million portion of a $750 million debt financing package for Facebook's newly built Oculus R&D center near San Francisco.

    By Glen Fest
    April 13
  • MBS
    Bayview introduces expanded prime jumbo platform via $385.9M MBS deal

    The inaugural securitization includes 447 30-year loans with average balances of $863,206.

    By Glen Fest
    April 12
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    CMBS
    Firm taps CMBS to finance manufactured housing portfolio

    Horizon Land Co. is securitizing a $488 million single-asset, single-borrower loan that will fund its purchase of 93 rent-site communities in the Midwest and Southwest regions.

    By Glen Fest
    April 5
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    LIBOR
    ARRC touts use of 30-day average SOFR for new-issue ABS, MBS

    A white paper released Monday by the Alternative Reference Rates Committee outlined how issuers could (and perhaps should) model new floating-rate transactions using a compounded version of the interbank overnight rate instead of Libor.

    By Glen Fest
    March 30
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    LIBOR
    New York passes legislation imposing Libor-benchmark replacement

    The act, yet to be signed by Gov. Cuomo, aims to resolve the difficult problem of how to fairly compensate floating-rate investors in instruments for which the London interbank offered rate is no longer published.

    By Glen Fest
    March 25
  • RMBS
    SOFR benchmark making inroads with private-label MBS

    A PIMCO-sponsored HELOC securitzation, as well as a mortgage-insurance linked transaction, are the latest examples of issuers getting a head start on switching to an expected replacement benchmark for Libor.

    By Glen Fest
    March 22
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    MBS
    BioMed refinancing lab-property debt in proposed $2B CMBS offering

    The Blackstone-affiliated company recently took out a cash-out refi mortgage for a 17-property portfolio, an opportunity aided by high demand for its R&D facilities for COVID-19 research.

    By Glen Fest
    March 17
  • CMBS
    Credit Suisse returns to conduit CMBS in $650M offering

    The sponsor has refrained from multi-borrower deals since March 2020, but has pooled together 28 loan participations from 40 properties – including notable concentrations in retail and lodging.

    By Glen Fest
    March 16
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    CMBS
    Fortress tapping CMBS to finance $1.45B Amazon logistics portfolio

    The bond issuance out of Fortress' CF Hippolyta master trust will finance 19 newly constructed or planned Amazon distribution and logistics facilities in 15 states.

    By Glen Fest
    March 9
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    MBS
    Prime jumbo new-issuance market heating up for March

    Three announced deals from Woodward Capital, Redwood Trust and Wells Fargo are set to price before the end of the month; additional transactions are expected soon from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.

    By Glen Fest
    March 9
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    CMBS
    Logistics operator seeks portfolio recapitalization via large-loan CMBS

    The 18 centers operated by industrial real estate management firm LBA Logistics are nearly all warehouse/distribution types, with no flex-industrial space pooled into the collateral mix.

    By Glen Fest
    March 3
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    MBS
    Cascade's manufactured-home MBS deal puts focus on new originations

    The deal is only the third post-crisis securitization of higher-risk manufactured housing assets, following deals in 2019 and 2020 that were sponsored by FirstKey Mortgage.

    By Glen Fest
    March 1
  • MBS
    Ellington set to price next $251.8M non-QM RMBS

    Ratings agencies describe a "notable" concentration of alternative-income mortgages in the nonforming pool that were underwritten by Ellington-affiliated LendSure.

    By Glen Fest
    February 18
  • MBS
    More RPL deals entering RMBS pipeline

    DLJ and Nomura Corporate are sponsoring portfolios of mostly previously modified, well-seasoned mortgages that have at least two years of clean-current payment status.

    By Glen Fest
    January 27
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    MBS
    Invictus pools well-seasoned residential mortgages in next non-QM deal

    The weighted average seasoning is 34 months, well above that of prior Invictus-sponsored deals on the Verus shelf that are typically new originations under 10 months.

    By Glen Fest
    January 13
  • CMBS
    KKR plans $695M MBS offering backed by logistics portfolio

    The transaction finances the loan portion of a $989.5 million acquisition of warehouse and distribution properties located in nine states.

    By Glen Fest
    January 13
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