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Most commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquencies peaked at 10.34% in the middle of 2012 and fallen since then, but the 2007 vintage's remain high with an average delinquency rate of 14.6% over the past 12 months, according to Trepp.

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The banking crisis in Cyprus and European market volatility had a bump in the road effect on the performance of securitized commercial mortgage loans.

The appellate court reversed and allowed the plaintiff to sue JPMorgan Chase for fraud and breach of written contract.

A report from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods reviewing mortgage banking results for 4Q12 notes that while things were generally positive, concerns about the sustainability of the current environment have increased.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc. is in settlement talks with an investor group that sued the mortgage servicer over auctions of home loans backing securities.

As the debate over the future of the Federal Housing Administration heats up in Congress, more common ground solutions are emerging.

The downgrades indicate that the bonds have incurred a principal write-down or are interest-only classes that have a notional balance off of a class that incurred a principal write-down, according to the company.

Veros believes the five markets which will see the most improvement are: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana; San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont; Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale; San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif.; and Midland, Texas.

House prices rose 0.3% in January from the prior month, according to Lender Processing Services.