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Why Are We So Calm?

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This is just a short note, with little actual utility, but it’s about something that’s really bothering me.  Why are we so calm?  What has anesthetized us?...more

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Winter Is Here:  Buy a Snow Shovel

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Winter is surely coming.  One might hope it will arrive without the sorcery, murder, mayhem and intrigue of that memorable HBO show, but surely it will be freighted by its own quantum of trauma and anxiety.  Actually, what am...more

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Welcome to the New Normal – Funny Times Revisited

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Several weeks ago, I wrote a commentary called Funny Times in which I bemoaned the complete lack of coherent data, making the process of predicting the course of interest rates, cap rates and transactional velocity over the...more

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Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Educated Fleas Do It.  Should The CRE Securitization Industry Advertise?

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If the wisdom of crowds has any validity (and there’s no real evidence that it’s any worse than the pontifical huffings of the chattering class), then there’s hope for 2023.  Optimism did itself proud at CREFC.  We’ll see if...more

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Structured Credit Solutions for Private Credit Funds in European CRE Debt Market: Options and Opportunities

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European commercial real estate (CRE) lending markets face a difficult environment, resulting from a higher than usual cost of debt and declining property valuations. In the face of such uncertainties, we examine how private...more

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2022 Golden Turkeys

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It’s Golden Turkey Awards Time, Folks! Our Turkeys are a little late this year but hey, we’ve been busy worrying about the collapse of the world’s economy.  This is the 10th edition of our Turkeys and much thanks to our...more

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Prognosticators’ Regret

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Just a few weeks back, I penned a sunny and optimistic piece about the growth of the CRE CLO market in 2022 and by implication, the general amicable economic conditions on which the growth of that technology would depend....more

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The CRE CLO Unleashed

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Our fine little CRE CLO business has exploded over the past couple of years, hasn’t it?  Last year, around this time, I recklessly predicted for my friends at Commercial Mortgage Alert that we might hit $30 billion of...more

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A Modest Proposal: Why Can’t CRE CLOs Be More Like Corporate CLOs?

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Here at Dechert, we have market-leading practices in CRE CLO as well as corporate CLOs, including broadly syndicated and middle market structures.  So, every day that I peer into these two alternate universes, I’m astonished...more

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Seth Eaton Discusses Modifications and Workouts of Commercial Real Estate Loans during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Watch Real Estate Finance Shareholder Seth Eaton discuss loan modifications and how they have evolved throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Seth outlines several different phases of loan modifications and highlights key points...more

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Like Bonds, But Not Bankers, the CRE CLO is Maturing

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With apologies to Madeline Kahn, in this case, it indeed is twu, it’s twu! The CRE CLO technology is maturing and evolving into the stable, match term, non-recourse, non-marked to market, dynamic portfolio lender lever...more

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Commercial Real Estate Market Projections, Influences, and Disrupters in 2019

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Miller Canfield participated in the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC) Winter Conference in Miami in January 2019. The conference offers a candid insider’s view that looks both backward and forward and has proven...more

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More Fun With Risk Retention: Europe and Japan Weigh In

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We’re all just back from CREFC and the mood was broadly constructive. (Don’t you love that word, “constructive”? When did “constructive” become a fancy way to say “good”?) We all went to South Beach this year wondering...more

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The CRE CLO Is Back…and That’s Good

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We have been writing off and on about the restoration to good graces of the commercial real estate CLO since the early days of this current recovery, and it’s important to keep the conversation going. Hey, if Pete Rose can...more

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2018 CREFC January Conference – Plateau or Status Quo?

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South Beach played host to the 2018 CREFC January Conference last week, as roughly 1,800 of our best friends in the CRE lending and securitization industry assembled in Miami to reflect on another year gone by and to muse...more

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[Event] Finance Forum - December 1st, Charlotte, NC

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP is sponsoring its inaugural Finance Forum in Charlotte, North Carolina on December 1st.  Join Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP and fellow industry leaders to discuss emerging trends, market...more

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Risk Retention – “How I Learned to Love Risk Retention and Live With It.” (Apologies to Stanley Kubrick)

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As time goes by we start to get close to the first of two risk retention effective dates; December 24, 2015 for residential product and everything else looming December 24, 2016 (does anyone really think a Christmas Eve...more

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CRE Securitization: Rehabilitation Still In Progress

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During the past several years, CRE Securitizations were airbrushed off the financial products reviewing podium like a discredited Politburo member. Not here, never ever here; nope, never heard of it. This was a mistake rooted...more

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