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By property type, lodging assets led the way for total delinquencies, with 6.3%, while some 3.5% of the lodging pools were current and specially serviced.

About 30% of U.S. office buildings are at high risk of becoming obsolete as tenants’ tastes change in the hybrid-work era.

A nearly $1.9 billion commercial mortgage bond linked to a portfolio of office buildings owned by Columbia Property Trust Inc. and Allianz SE was delayed on Wednesday due to market weakness, according to two bond investors.

Office properties account for 60.8% of the pool, above the 41.2% average for 2020 deals, and above the 36.5% average for 2021.

Key retail vacancies, a drop in office occupancies, plus a combination of lower oil prices, a housing market oversupply — worsened by the coronavirus pandemic — caused loan-level performance issues.

The sponsors got the portfolio through multiple acquisitions from May through October.

The loan pool’s volatility score is high but its diversity of properties is a plus.

Benchmark will issue 21 classes of certificates, with 13 entitled to principal and interest payments. Six classes will receive interest only.

The firm, dubbed Polpo Capital, is looking to produce a 15% net return to investors with modest leverage by capitalizing on the coming distress in commercial mortgage debt as forbearance agreements expire

The problem loans mature right around when tenants in the offices are due to renew — or end — their leases. That may unsettle investors in commercial mortgage-backed securities, analysts at Moody’s Analytics warned this week.