Nora Colomer

Citigroup plans to issue a $240 million of commercial mortgage-backed securities backed by a single shopping mall.

Goldman Sachs plans to issue $568 million in CMBS loans backed by fixed-rate loans that are secured on three malls.

Despite the buzz about the REO-to-rental market over the past year, there is still no clear indication of the role securitization can play in the permanent financing of repossessed single-family homes for conversion into rental properties.

Markit released series 6 of CMBX, the synthetic indices based on a static portfolio of U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities.

Morgan Stanley and Bank or America priced a $1.23 billion commercial mortgage-backed securitization conduit, series 2013-C7 at strong levels.

It is still not practical to include commercial loans of several hundreds of millions of dollars in commercial mortgage-backed securities conduits, as was common in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Market interest in launching REO-to-rental securitizations has increased over the past several months, driven partly by the sizable inventory of real estate owned properties.

Mitsubishi Corp. will start originating CMBS in the U.S. through a joint venture with Five Mile Capital Partners.

Barclays Capital, Citigroup Global Markets, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank Securities were among the winning bidders for the sale of roughly $4.5 billion of additional assets from the Maiden Lane III portfolio.

The September expiration date for the Small Business Administration's secondary market program for the first lien position means that first mortgages will no longer be eligible for a government guarantee.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed Thomas Butler as director of the agency's new office of credit ratings.

Greece's RMBS sector would be one of the victims of the country's exit from the euro zone, which appears increasingly likely in the run-up to June 17 elections between parties supporting and opposing austerity measures, a condition of the country's bailout.

Walker & Dunlop acquired CWCapital, creating one of the largest commercial real estate lenders in the nation.

Fitch Ratings and Kroll Bond Ratings will rate the $1.1 billion CMBS conduit deal backed by 61 fixed-rate commercial mortgage loans that are secured by 80 properties.

Allied Irish Bank has signed HML to offer the U.K.’s first 48-hour "hot" standby servicing arrangement for the issuer's £437.6 million ($683 million) securitization of U.K. mortgage assets.

The latest sale includes $1.6 billion of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) tied to home loans known as ‘Duke Funding High Grade I Ltd.’

TriLyn has formed an investment management platform focused on opportunities in high-yield commercial real estate debt.

Clopton Capital plans to expand loan options for owners and operators of gas stations nationwide.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has sold the entirety of the TRIAXX CDO holdings from its Maiden Lane III portfolio to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith after a competitive bid process.

Non-agency MBS investors should look for bonds with smaller loan sizes in a structure that is levered to severity, said Amherst Securities Group analysts in a recent report.