CMBS

Upcoming risk retention requirements may be the proverbial straw that breaks the back of the commercial mortgage-backed securities market.

Wells Fargo is marketing its second commercial mortgage securitization in two months, this time with a focus on smaller-market retail, hotel and office properties.

Citigroup's next commercial mortgage securitization has heavy exposure to split loans that serve as collateral for a number of other transactions.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages moved noticeably higher in June, as several large loans failed to pay off at maturity.

A noted upper midtown Manhattan retail center that sold last month for $525 million is among several high-end retail, shopping and hotel resort properties JPMorgan is including in its latest commercial mortgage securitization.

Total multifamily and commercial mortgage originations are expected to decrease from last year's levels because of economic uncertainty, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, an asset manager owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, agreed to buy ACRE Capital Holdings in a bet on multifamily loans.

Commercial real estate prices may fall as much as 5% in the next 12 months amid tightened regulations, a wall of debt maturities and property sales by publicly traded landlords, Pacific Investment Management Co. said in a report Monday.

There's been plenty of speculation about insurance companies crowding out commercial mortgage bond investors this year.

The delinquency rate on the loans included in commercial mortgage-backed securities increased for the third consecutive month in May after significant declines at the start of the year, according to Trepp.