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For better but more often for worse it seems lately, the commercial mortgage-backed securities market is continuing to experience interesting developments, whether it be updated credit rating agency analysis on evolving outlook, recent insights on the landscape from the special servicing community or the latest from bank research desks and MBA’s latest Quarterly CMF Originations Survey.

The delinquency rate for commercial and multifamily mortgages declined in July. The rate had increased sharply in April at the onset of the pandemic, with 3.6% of loan balances becoming newly delinquent. In May, delinquencies increased again, with a new, but smaller, cohort of newly delinquent loans (2.8%) and slightly more than half of the balance of loans that had been less than 30-days delinquent in April moving to the 30-60 days delinquent category. The inflow of newly delinquent loans continued to slow in June (1.8% of overall balances) and July (1.4%).

Reis, New York, reported commercial real estate completions have declined “in a historic manner” since the pandemic and shutdown orders hit the U.S.

Greystone, New York, provided $100.3 million in HUD-insured loans for multifamily properties in California and Texas.

CBRE, Los Angeles, announced Bill Grice joined CBRE Hotels as Executive Vice President and Co-Head of Hospitality Capital Markets. Based in the firm’s Atlanta office, he will focus on the origination and placement of debt and equity for hospitality-related transactions.

After a strong start to 2020, COVID-19’s impacts on North American commercial real estate hit during the second quarter, reported Transwestern, Houston, and Devencore, Toronto.

CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., said single-family rent growth reached its slowest rate in a decade during June amid elevated unemployment rates.

Full recovery in U.S. hotel demand and room revenue remains unlikely until 2023 and 2024, respectively, said STR, Hendersonville, Tenn., and Tourism Economics, Wayne, Pa. The firms slightly downgraded their hotel outlook report.