Traditional bank loans for land acquisition are less accessible, prompting developers to use land banking. This involves a land banker buying property and later transferring it to the developer, providing liquidity and...more
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We are often asked by clients about cross-border commercial mortgage warehouse transactions. Over the past ten years there has been substantial growth in the number of facilities that we advise on that have...more
A mortgage loan repurchase facility (more casually referred to as a “repo”) is a financing structure commonly utilized to finance mortgage loans. These facilities are utilized by both residential and commercial mortgage loan...more
I don’t think risk retention is applicable to a direct issuance securitization. Many single asset, single borrower (SASB) transactions can be structured to avoid the need to retain risk under the Dodd-Frank Act and the...more
Fresh off the Philadelphia Eagles’ first Super Bowl victory, a group of Dechert attorneys and 3,500 of our industry colleagues descended on San Diego for the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) CREF/Multifamily Housing...more
CREFC held its Annual Conference last week in Washington D.C. Given the current politically charged climate, 2017 felt like a very appropriate time to move the Annual Conference from its traditional home in New York to...more
6/15/2017
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The slow start to 2016 did not dampen the enthusiasm at CREFC’s Annual Conference, held last week in New York City. The conference saw record attendance, with standing-room-only crowds at virtually every panel. As with the...more
More than two years after the first single-family rental securitization, the single-family rental market continues to evolve and grow. The rise of single-family rentals reflects both a demographic shift among the American...more
You know, there’s never a dull moment when one reports on the regulatory states’ endless and so often fruitless and wrong-headed tinkering with the global economy. So now… let’s talk bail-in. The bail-in regime, which was...more
The 3rd Annual IMN Single Family Rental (SFR) Investment Forum was held at the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach last week. Over 1,000 SFR professionals attended the forum, including buyers, investors, lenders and service...more
For those of us living in the northeastern U.S., last week’s Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC) January Conference could not have been better timed to escape the brutal cold for the tropical beaches of Miami. We...more
1/13/2015
We have previously written here on CrunchedCredit about Chinese banks lending in the U.S. With recent news that Chinese state-owned developer Greenland Group has agreed to purchase a 70% stake in Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards...more
A bill was recently introduced in the Senate that could result in the wind-down of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Under the bi-partisan “Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2013”, recently introduced by...more