Carlton Fields Executive Director of Financial Services Consulting, Brian Olasov, was quoted in the MBA Newslink article, “CMBS Delinquencies Dropped 21% in 2016.” The article discusses commercial mortgage-backed securities rate down 21 percent from 2015.
Olasov was quoted and provided:
The performance of pre-crisis deals differs so materially from post-crisis deals that they're really separate markets. We also know that refinancing rates on the 2007-vintage deals are starting to drop, resulting in maturity default increases. Community and regional banks will weigh heavily on refinancing success. If they continue to lend aggressively they will support successful takeouts. But if under regulatory pressure they tighten the reins, maturity defaults could spike. With some pockets of exceptions, fundamentals at the property level are likely to remain positive in 2017.
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