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The RE Debt Desk 42 stories this week · 299 total

Starwood hires Blackstone's Eglit to scale a $10 billion debt book

The relationship book and portfolio-buying playbook Eglit brings from Blackstone matter more than the seat he fills.
September 15

A $5.6 billion equity shop takes the lending seat

GTIS renames itself Brightshore and launches a debt platform that puts a development-equity house on the paying side of the refinancing wall.
September 15

Jersey City is where the refinancing roll stops working

A decade of hotel cash flow that never matched its underwriting reaches maturity, and the workout becomes the comp for the 2016 hospitality conduits.
September 15

Stockdale puts an owner-operator's edge into a $300 million credit book

With $15 million to $75 million tickets and a $4.5 billion portfolio behind it, the Los Angeles firm is building a demonstration portfolio whose real return is a first look at the assets.
September 15

Special servicing hits a 2013 high on loans that could not roll

A single $1.10 billion Hollywood studio-and-office loan carried August's transfers, and the mix points to maturity failures rather than broad distress.
September 14

Data center CMBS is pricing the wrong risk

The triple-A spread on data center bonds sits 72 basis points wide of office, a gap that acknowledges something is different about the collateral without deciding how different — and the issuance pipeline is about to force the question.
September 14

PGIM prices an office-to-storage conversion at completion

The $57 million refinancing at 152 West 36th Street confirms an exit route for obsolete Midtown office, with the sponsor left to prove a rezoning thesis in the lease-up.
September 14

Audubon takes a 322-unit Atlanta tower at the loan balance

A 2021 Midtown Atlanta basis clears through the debt rather than a foreclosure, putting one more credit in the hands of a lender that just consolidated a far bigger apartment book.
September 14

PNC's $92M Carr loan is underwritten by a tax abatement

A five-year term against a 2028 delivery leaves two decades of abated taxes carrying most of the $92 million.
September 14

A 35-year owner terms out and keeps its options

Seven years fixed, four interest-only: a refinancing with no forced clock.
September 14

Northwind lends $219M for a conversion that stops at the 11th floor

The second partial-conversion mortgage out of Northwind in three days says debt funds, not banks, now set the price of adaptive reuse — and that the trade only pencils when the leased floors are left alone.
September 14

First Citizens refinances Morningstar's Blue Doors storage fund with $157m

A refinance with no disclosed paydown extends a storage relationship and rolls a maturity forward; the next facility will show whether the relationship got priced.
September 14

Banor launches a €300-400 million European property debt fund as refinancings keep extending

The bank-retreat thesis is real; the refinancing flow it is meant to feed keeps getting extended, not priced.
September 14

Erieview conversion lands $217.6M on a 2027 clock

Cleveland's downtown conversion is a multifamily underwrite in an office building, and the financing must hold from first draw through lease-up before anyone learns whether it penciled.
September 13

A $1.1 billion extension with no paydown is a free option

The Hollywood Media Portfolio loan now runs to November 2027 with the coupon untouched and the balance whole, turning a refinancing problem into a leasing question.
September 11

HPP and Blackstone buy fifteen months on $1.1B studio loan

The special servicer chose duration over title, and the bondholder now carries fifteen more months of a balance nothing has paid down.
September 11

Chapman Market's refi lands just below its decade-ago purchase price

The $29.3 million Voya loan replaces a 2021 bridge at about 15 percent more proceeds—what a performing retail asset looks like when the maturity moves rather than the value.
September 11

CREFC hands the top job to a new-issue CMBS desk head

Paul T. Vanderslice takes over Sept. 30, with the council's center of gravity shifted from legislative fights to extension and modification work.
September 11

$208M Northwind loan turns a never-occupied tower into apartments

The first mortgage on 141 Willoughby is written against 239 apartments, leaving the commercial podium at 385 Gold an unhedged office bet.
September 11

A $70M Florida loan retires one phase and funds the next

One closing takes out phase I's construction loan and preferred equity and carries phase II's build, a refinancing wall resolved by roll rather than by a fresh basis.
September 11

Life insurer writes five years on a stabilized Harrison, N.J., apartment building

The $75 million loan on the 398-unit Vermella Harrison works out to roughly $188,000 a unit, and the five-year term does more work than the amount.
September 11

S3 lends $45m on a Williamsburg ground lease, leaving the land out of the loan

The Williamsburg tower's credit is a contract — ground rent, term, and a fee owner the lender has to live with.
September 11

MMCC puts $12.6 million behind an Orange bridge that won't de-lever

Two years of interest-only at 80% LTV leave the property, not the rent roll, as the lender's protection.
September 10

Orix writes $275,000 a unit on a Seattle lease-up

Nobody has sold Swell Apartments, so a $55 million refinancing becomes the closest thing to a mark the 2024-vintage building has.
September 10

Berkshire buys the rest of MF1 as Limekiln exits

After eight years, Limekiln is out and Berkshire owns all of a lender built on roughly $32 billion of apartment loans, plus the workout still ahead.
September 10

Oregon's small-balance apartment market is clearing on bank credit

Three GREA-arranged bank loans carry thirty-year amortization on five- and ten-year terms, deferring the question of value to roughly 2031.
September 10

Five years of office financials retire the income-recovery refinance

Trepp's chained medians put office NOI growth at 0.2% a year since 2021 and a five-year debt-yield gain at nine basis points, so the refinancing gap gets closed with equity, not rent.
September 10

A Falling CMBS Delinquency Balance Is a Plateau, Not a Peak

Trepp's own caveat — resolved problem loans replaced by new delinquencies — says more about the next year of office credit than the August headline does.
September 10

Draper & Kramer places $93.5M refinance on the Elizabeth

The loan resets a coupon on a 2024-vintage tower, but the construction-lending quote inside the announcement is the part that matters.
September 10

S3's leasehold loan is a bet on a document, not dirt

A $45 million construction loan on church-owned land in Brooklyn puts the ground lease at the center of the credit.
September 10

Affinius and Axonic's sixth deal matters more than the $48 million

A year-old lending partnership between a $30.4 billion manager and a credit shop has closed six deals, and the sixth shows suburban scarcity getting underwritten as the binding constraint.
September 10

Illinois Teachers anchors a senior-housing credit fund with $100m

A $100 million pension anchor for a sector-specific lender suggests senior housing debt is becoming its own allocation line.
September 10

Gantry places $48.3M Freddie Mac takeout on Maple Grove apartments

A full-term interest-only, non-recourse 10-year loan written on a 248-unit stabilized asset sets the price at the front of the refinancing queue.
September 9

Canyon puts $67M on Kurv Elizabeth at $240 a foot

The refinancing shows senior debt still clearing on modern industrial in dense corridors, even as resale comps in secondary markets run lower.
September 9

Avatar compresses the capital stack on two Jack in the Boxes

A $5.1 million first-lien bridge clears a matured note and folds old subordinate debt into one junior position, leaving the two-year exit as the real test.
September 9

Madison Realty funds Whole Foods-anchored Southlake project

A $77 million construction loan outside Dallas leans on a grocery lease and 37 saleable lots, the least speculative form of construction credit's return.
September 9
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