Deep End of the CMBS Pool: A Conversation With KBRA

The quickly soured commercial mortgage-backed securities market, with pockets of challenged hotel and retail collateral properties in markets scattered across the country, is the commercial real estate story of 2020.

Signs of Retail Sector Distress Grow

The retail market is starting to see distress as the pandemic enters its ninth month, said Moody’s Analytics REIS, New York.

COVID is Accelerating CRE Trends

Kroll Bond Rating Agency, New York, said the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many commercial real estate trends already in progress.

Investor-Driven Lender Growth in CRE Finance

The rise of debt funds, mortgage real estate investment trusts and other players broadly referred to as “investor-driven lenders” has been at the heart of the commercial real estate finance narrative this cycle–particularly in recent years.