LNR: Wall Street’s secret battleground

By DOUGLAS HANKS dhanks@MiamiHerald.com To visit a central battleground in Wall Street’s commercial real estate crisis, head to the corner of 16th and Washington in South Beach. Read Full...

CMBS Delinquencies Continue to Rise

Mar 29, 2010 10:15 AM-Retail Traffic In February, the delinquent unpaid balance for CMBS rose $1.87 billion, up to $47.82 billion from $45.94 billion a month prior, according to Horsham, Pa.-based Realpoint LLC. However, the rise was lower than the jumps in the three previous months when the unpaid balance jumped by more than $3.7 billion each month Read Full...

Five-Year Loans Drive U.S. CMBS Delinquencies Higher

Fitch Ratings: Upcoming maturities from U.S. CMBS deals originated in 2005 contributed to a 29 basis-point (bp) increase in delinquencies to 6.29% at the end of February, according to the latest U.S. CMBS delinquency index results from Fitch Ratings. Approximately 30% of the newly delinquent loans were from 2005 transactions. In fact, the four largest newly delinquent loans (ranging in size from...