The first loans under Freddie Mac’s new platform, which purchases and securitizes smaller balance mortgages, have closed, the lender told Mortgage Observer.
The two loans, backed by apartment buildings in Los Angeles, Calif., closed last week, according to a representative for Greystone, which originated the $4.6 million on two apartment buildings. Read More
The Singer & Bassuk Organization advised TF Cornerstone in the arrangement of two permanent agency loans totaling $365 million for the New York developer’s rental apartment buildings at 95 Horatio Street in the Meatpacking District and 4610 Center Boulevard in Long Island City, Mortgage Observer has first learned.
TF Cornerstone secured a $165 million Freddie Mac loan through Capital One for its Horatio Street property, said Jeremy Shell, the company’s head of finance and acquisitions, and Andrew Singer, chairman and chief executive officer of Singer & Bassuk. Read More
Mr. McCool leads the servicing division of Berkadia Commercial Real Estate Services, a company owned by Berkshire Hathaway and Leucadia National Corp with 75 offices nationally. The company services a portfolio of properties in the U.S., Canada and Mexico valued at over $245.3 billion and is the third-largest multifamily servicer nationally. Mr. McCool recently sat down with Mortgage Observer in Berkadia’s Midtown Manhattan office, where he told us about the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the market for debt on distressed properties and the company’s operations in Hyderabad, India. Read More
‘Tis the season for small-balance loan services.
Freddie Mac today announced the launch of a new platform to purchase and securitize small multifamily loans between $1 million and $5 million on properties with at least five apartment units in an effort to further support affordable housing preservation and development. Read More
Berkadia Commercial Mortgage arranged an $85 million revolving credit facility through Freddie Mac for an Edgewater, N.J., mixed-use complex, Mortgage Observer has exclusively learned.
The five-year loan has a floating rate based on Libor, currently ticking in at 2.05 percent, and a 75 percent loan-to-value ratio. The proceeds will be used to refinance a bridge loan, also provided by Berkadia, prior to stabilization. The property, called The View at Edgewater Harbor, was built in 2012, according to Zillow.com. Read More
Berkadia Commercial Mortgage originated $20.3 million in financing through Freddie Mac on an Austin, Texas multifamily property, Mortgage Observer has learned.
The seven-year, fixed-rate loan is at a “sub 4 percent” interest rate and amortizes over 30 years, according to a representative for Berkadia. Read More
M&T Realty Capital Corp., the commercial mortgage banking subsidiary of M&T Bank, recently closed a $34 million Freddie Mac loan to refinance a 256-unit co-op building at 250 Mercer Street in NoHo, a spokesperson for the bank told Mortgage Observer. The borrower is listed in public records as Mercer Square Owners Corp.
Proceeds from the ten-year loan will go to capital improvements on the 16-story pre-war building and allow the shareholders to lock into a low fixed interest rate, according to the lender. Read More
Mr. Brickman told Mortgage Observer about the strength of the multifamily market, investors’ huge appetite for K-Deals and just how far things have come since the dark days of 2009. Read More
A proposed Senate bill that seeks to wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the next five years, revealed last month, would preserve their multifamily lending businesses under a new entity and maintain a government guarantee for the multifamily lending market, commercial lenders and brokers told Mortgage Observer.
The bill, announced by Senators Tim Johnson and Mike Crapo on March 11, focuses on the dissolution of the firms’ single-family residential mortgage business, a market that the government-sponsored entities continue to dominate six years after the beginning of the financial crisis. It also creates a provision that would spin off the companies’ multifamily businesses and establish new independent businesses within a year of the bill’s passage. Read More
During last year’s Mortgage Bankers Association commercial real estate finance (CREF) conference, Grace Huebscher, president of the leading multifamily lender Beech Street Capital, found clarity on a topic she had been considering for some time—that staying ahead of the competition would require the support of a larger institutional partner. Capital One, Beech Street’s primary bank since 2010, had been on her radar, along with other top players in the finance arena. But prior to the annual event, Ms. Huebscher had felt that time was on her side.
A deeper sense of urgency set in as she listened to her peers speak about the challenges and changes ahead, from agency reductions to the return of the banking industry. That solidified a thought she and her partners had been entertaining for more than a year. Read More
Despite their surprisingly rapid recovery five years after being placed into government conservatorship, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be dissolved, if bi-partisan legislation announced today by the Senate banking committee eventually passes.
Under the bill, private capital would have to take the first 10 percent of all mortgage losses, effectively removing much of the firm federal backing that mortgage-backed securities repackaged by Fannie and Freddie have enjoyed. Read More
One of the many panels at the Mortgage Bankers Association‘s 2014 CREF/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo in Orlando, Fla., focused on the buoyancy of the multifamily debt market with a forward look on what’s to come. Read More
Hello dedicated readers, industry insiders and commercial real estate junkies.
We are reaching out from the Mortgage Bankers Association‘s 2014 CREF/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo in Orlando, Fla.
The four-day event kicked off last night at the Hyatt Regency Orlando hotel with several panels on the tumultuous FHA landscape and a lively Super Bowl party to cap off the night. (The Seattle Seahawks won their first Super Bowl title, defeating the Denver Broncos 43-8, for those who missed it.) Read More
Liquidity may well be on the rise in 2014.
As real estate and capital markets in many of the county’s largest cities continue to rebound, the majority of the top 50 commercial and multifamily lending firms expect loan origination volumes to increase this year, a recent Mortgage Bankers Association survey shows. Read More
Blackstone Mortgage Trust has named Paul Quinlan chief financial officer, replacing Geoffrey Jervis, who resigned to pursue other opportunities.
Mr. Quinlan, who most recently worked as head of financial planning and business development at Blackstone, will also now serve as CFO for the firm’s real estate debt strategies division. Read More
