Advanced Flower Capital Gamma went public in March. The REIT provides first-lien loans to cannabis companies and it’s generating healthy returns.

An asset manager based in Toronto agreed to acquire Annaly’s commercial business. The REIT will put an even greater emphasis on its investments in residential MBS.

FoAM sees a growing potential in HECM securitizations and is expanding its menu in the space. Meanwhile, its SPAC/IPO has been green-lighted for early April.

There was a time when REITs had no problem pitching secondary offerings of stock but the pandemic ended all that. Enter Dynex Capital...

Morningstar argues it can use undisclosed loan-specific stress adjustments for subjective reasons, including to bring the rating for a commercial MBS in line with expectations based on similar deals.

Good news for the commercial mortgage sector: CRE-related equity values are rising. Meanwhile, the MBA is optimistic about commercial real estate lending this year.

In January, Fitch reported 28 newly delinquent hotel loans totaling $564 million. Retail loans were a distant second, with 18 newly delinquent loans worth a total of $268 million.

Non-agency CMBS issuance last year sank to its lowest production level since 2012 and key real estate sectors remain under stress. But the agency multifamily MBS programs continued to grow. (Includes data chart.)

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2022 budget proposal includes language that formalizes the inevitable shift from LIBOR to SOFR for most financial institutions.

Thanks to the COVID crisis, appraisal reductions in commercial MBS are rising rapidly and may be a harbinger of future loan losses, warns Kroll Bond Rating Agency.