MBA NewsLink Roundtable: Top Commercial Mortgage Servicing Issues to Watch in 2024

With the logjam in the commercial real estate transaction market top of mind for many, loan servicing and asset management professionals entered the new year with a fresh set of opportunities and challenges defined not by a flood of new originations but the expectation of a growing supply of troubled loans.

Top Five Commercial Mortgage Servicing Issues to Watch in 2022

With 2022 quickly approaching, MBA’s Servicer Council recently hosted a discussion with servicing executives from PGIM Real Estate, SitusAMC, Mount Street, Berkadia and Trimont, who shared perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing the sector.

Top Five Commercial Mortgage Servicing Issues to Watch in 2022

With 2022 quickly approaching, MBA’s Servicer Council recently hosted a discussion with servicing executives from PGIM Real Estate, SitusAMC, Mount Street, Berkadia and Trimont, who shared perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing the sector.

CMBS Market Musings–Not Out of the Woods?

As the commercial real estate finance market experienced fits and starts last year, no capital source provided more transparency into commercial real estate than CMBS with its monthly investor reporting and credit rating agency coverage creating a window into market performance and challenges for certain retail and hospitality assets.

Andrew Foster: Top Five Commercial Mortgage Servicing Issues to Watch in 2021

While most will be monitoring increased infections and the progress of vaccine distribution and effectiveness, loan servicing and asset management professionals will have some additional factors impacting their organizations and books of business in the new year.

The Wonder Years: Freddie Mac’s K Series Turns 11

Freddie Mac’s K series quietly holds a place as an important, innovative multifamily market solution that has served borrowers, lenders, tenants and bondholders extremely well since its inception. Importantly for a government-sponsored entity, it also serves as a mechanism to transfer risk away from taxpayers.

What to Expect When Expecting Distress: A Servicer Roundtable

As COVID-19 and government responses continue to drive uncertainty around outcomes and outlooks, MBA Newslink interviewed senior professionals from a credit rating agency and several highly rated servicers to get their perspective on forbearance, loan workouts and portfolio management challenges for agency and non-agency CMBS.

Atlanta Fed’s Brian Bailey, CRE, Dishes on Commercial Real Estate Risks

With just under two decades wearing different hats in the commercial real estate industry before joining the bank, Bailey is a CRE subject matter expert in the Atlanta Fed’s Supervision, Regulation and Credit division. In addition to previous roles as an appraiser, consultant and property developer, Bailey holds CCIM and CRE designations. MBS Newslink interviewed Bailey to get his perspective on the current environment.