Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) are fixed-income investments backed by mortgages on commercial properties rather than residential real estate.

Commercial real estate lending began to pick up speed in 2024 with several large and notable deals across a number of property sectors, both in the public and private markets. The year’s biggest deal ...

Amid a slipping occupancy rate in the property, the 354,604-square-foot building’s loan was transferred to special servicing “due to imminent monetary default,” Trepp wrote in its report. The Prince ...

Community banks are big commercial real-estate lenders. But they say their loans are to sturdy local businesses, not those facing vacant office space. By Matthew Goldstein and Emily Flitter Small ...

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For all the fretting over office building loans at banks, relatively few observers are worrying about the growing strain among business borrowers. Processing Content The stress is nowhere close to ...

Lenders including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG, as well as smaller companies, are showing more willingness to foreclose on troubled properties or offload non-performing loans, even if ...