A venture of M-M Properties and The Baupost Group has closed on its acquisition of Marathon Oil Tower, a 41-story office building in Houston. CBRE Global Investors sold the property, at 5555 San...
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Quarterly league tables with rankings of B-piece buyers, book runners, and lenders
Top Bookrunners Domestic, Private-Label CMBS - 2017
Investment Bank
#Deals
Vol$mln
MktShr%
Goldman Sachs
17.59
11,819.34
13.68
JPMorgan Securities
14.52
10,968.11
12.70
Citigroup
12.04
10,012.71
11.59
Wells Fargo Securities
14.02
9,936.06
11.50
Deutsche Bank
12.55
9,879.74
11.44
RCA CPPI
CMBS 2.0 Spreads
Top CMBS Loan Contributors - 2017
Lender
#Loans
Vol$mln
MktShr%
Goldman Sachs
146.89
11,719.34
13.63
JPMorgan Chase Bank
117.68
10,114.14
11.76
Deutsche Bank
198.48
9,689.97
11.27
Morgan Stanley
166.18
8,539.78
9.93
Citigroup
199.05
8,088.24
9.41
REITCafe
Challenging Retail Environment Weights on REITs Mixed economic news is weighing on retail markets, pushing REIT performance down in 2015. This week, the National Retail Federation announced that back-to-school spending is expected to be down 9.3% in 2015. This news came on the heels of a report from the Commerce Department stating that retail sales declined 0.3%...
US REITs Feeling Effects from Turmoil in Greece and China International economic forces have taken center stage this week, affecting both US stock markets and REITs. The crash in the Chinese stock market and ongoing concerns about the future of Greece in the eurozone drove markets down during the first half of the week. REITs fared better than the overall market...
What Does Increased Construction Mean for Apartment REITs? REITs so far this year have raised $17.1 billion of capital through the sale of unsecured notes, bringing the total raised over the past two and a half years to just more than $75 billion. That’s more than they raised during the previous five years. The massive volume shouldn’t be a surprise as it comes while the yield from 10-year Treasury bonds, the benchmark...
shouldn’t be a surprise as it comes while the yield from 10-year Treasury bonds, the benchmark against which most REIT’s price their bonds