The $1.2-billion loan on 666 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan, which in early 2007 set a sales record for a single office property, was transferred to a special…

Although the delinquency rate on legacy CMBS continues to tick upward, securitization has risen from the ashes of the 2008-2009 capital-markets fire…

A few months after the $3-billion first mortgage on the Peter Cooper Village/ Stuyvesant Town apartment complex in New York City first went into special…

On the face of it, a loan sale is a loan sale. It's a means of getting a troubled asset off the books in a shorter time frame than foreclosure would…

Call it German engineering brought to securitized debt instruments. Covered bonds have been used throughout Europe since Frederic the Great of Prussia…

The lease-accounting rule changes proposed this past summer by the International Accounting Standards Board and the US Financial Accounting Standards…

This past October, Distressed Assets Investor charted the evolution of the FDIC's structured sales program, in which the agency partners with one or…

Economic growth in the US is slowly trending upward, as are commercial real estate fundamentals. The recovery isn't rapid enough, though, to keep loan…