Not exact matches
CMBS B - piece buyers are taking a close look at those
loans, and either pricing risk or even pushing back on
loan quality by kicking some bad
loans out of the
pools.
Moreover, interest - only
loans have now become prevalent in
CMBS pools.
The main difference is that
CMBS pools are typically comprised of fixed - rate, first mortgages, while CDOs are comprised of floating - rate
loans backed by all kinds of collateral, including
CMBS offerings.
Both
CMBS and CDOs are
pools of
loans made on commercial properties and then divided into investment tranches with varying yields and levels of risk and then sold as securities.
Higher interest rates for commercial and multifamily financing this summer had the greatest effect on lenders who securitize
loans through the capital markets, such as conduit lenders who bundle
loans into
CMBS pools and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lenders.
That basically breaks down into $ 1.3 billion in traditional commercial whole
loans, about $ 400 million of residential
pools of Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae backed
loans, and the remainder in non-traditional investments such as syndicated bank debt, unsecured REIT debt,
CMBS and privately structured transactions.
The irony for Nomura Holdings was that under the real estate lending leadership of the flamboyant Ethan Penner, the company pioneered the business of chopping up
pools of commercial mortgage
loans and reforming and selling them as
CMBS in the early -»90s.
The $ 92 million
loan would rank as the largest
loan in the
CMBS securitization
pool Greenwich was assembling.
In instances where a
loan is part of a
CMBS pool, for example, it's virtually impossible to discuss restructuring until a default has actually occurred.
In analyzing
CMBS issues, rating agencies scrutinize the 10 largest
loans in a
pool.