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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.

After a series of recommendations this year that didn't quite go as planned, Goldman Sachs has a new top trade idea.

Goldman Sachs and Citigroup each have filed for new commercial-backed mortgage securitizations this week.

Property valuations for specially serviced U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities have dipped, according to Fitch Ratings.

Greystone, a commercial real estate lending, investment and advisory company, is adding two executives to a mortgage bond lending team.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Wednesday it had raised a cap on the amount of multifamily loans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can buy from lenders, boosting it to $35 billion effective immediately.

Defaults on commercial mortgage-backed securities declined for the fifth straight year in 2015, according to Fitch Ratings.

Lenders are getting stingier when it comes to funding risky U.S. real estate developments, putting pressure on landlords in need of fresh funding to keep their projects afloat.

Total commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding increased in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Market volatility and new regulatory burdens are thinning the ranks of commercial mortgage lenders that underwrite loans for securitizations. Activity is slowing down as a result, and it is unclear if banks and insurers will fill the void, especially outside the largest cities.

Commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquency rates dropped in the fourth quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Prices of loans underlying commercial mortgage-backed securities were on the rise in January, according to DebtX.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has agreed to acquire Apollo Residential Mortgage.