Monday’s Numbers: July 25, 2011

The Commercial Mortgage Alert Trepp weekly survey of 15 active portfolio lenders remained unchanged during the most recent survey period with financing remaining available in the 5 percent +/- range.

Headlines

“FDIC Shutters 222 Bank in Second Quarter; Finds Buyers for 21”

Clearly an improvement over recent prior periods! But we are clearly not out of the woods yet as there are 888 banks on the FDIC “problems” list.

“Another Players Enters the Arena: Prudential Mortgage Capital Recently Forms a Joint Venture to Originate Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Loans”

Prudential anticipates originating up to $1 billion of CMBS loans annually.

Monday’s Numbers

The Commercial Mortgage Alert Trepp weekly survey (below) of 15 active portfolio lenders remained unchanged during the most recent survey period with financing remaining available in the 5 percent +/- range.

Asking Spreads over U.S. Treasury Bonds in Basis Points

(10-year Commercial and Multifamily Mortgage Loans with 50% to 59% Loan-to-Value Ratios)

12/31/09

12/31/10

7/15/11

Office

342

214

181

Retail

326

207

174

Multifamily

318

188

163

Industrial

333

201

169

Average Asking Spread

330

203

172

10-Year Treasury

3.83%

3.29%

2.91%

The Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick-Goldman Survey for the period ended July 7 showed fixed and floating rate spreads remaining unchanged in most property sectors during the survey period with financing remaining available at attractive and affordable rates.

Property Type

Mid-Point of Fixed Rate Commercial Mortgage
Spreads For 5 Year Commercial Real Estate Mortgages

12/16/10

3/31/11

6/2/11

6/16/11

7/7/11

Multifamily - Non-Agency

+270

+245

+225

+230

+230

Multifamily – Agency

+280

+250

+200

+210

+220

Regional Mall

+280

+260

+255

+265

+265

Grocery Anchored

+280

+260

+245

+250

+250

Strip and Power Centers

+265

+270

+270

Multi-Tenant Industrial

+270

+265

+245

+255

+260

CBD Office

+280

+260

+250

+255

+260

Suburban Office

+300

+270

+260

+270

+270

Full-Service Hotel

+320

+300

+265

+275

+285

Limited-Service Hotel

+400

+325

+300

+310

+310

5-Year Treasury

2.60%

2.23%

1.62%

1.52%

1.64%

Source: Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman.

Property Type

Mid-Point of Fixed Rate Commercial Mortgage
Spreads For 10 Year Commercial Real Estate Mortgages

12/1610

3/31/11

6/2/11

6/16/11

7/7/11

Multifamily - Non-Agency

+190

+180

+180

+185

+185

Multifamily – Agency

+200

+185

+170

+175

+180

Regional Mall

+175

+180

+180

+190

+190

Grocery Anchor

+190

+185

+175

+200

+200

Strip and Power Centers

+190

+195

+195

Multi-Tenant Industrial

+190

+190

+185

+190

+190

CBD Office

+180

+180

+180

+190

+190

Suburban Office

+190

+190

+190

+195

+195

Full-Service Hotel

+290

+230

+220

+225

+235

Limited-Service Hotel

+330

+260

+240

+245

+250

10-Year Treasury

3.47%

3.45%

2.99%

2.94%

3.09%

Source: Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman.

Property Type

Mid-Point of Floating-Rate Commercial Mortgage
Spreads For 3 - 5 Commercial Real Estate Year Mortgages

12/16/10

3/31/11

6/2/11

6/16/11

7/7/11

Multifamily – Non-Agency

+250-300

+225-325

+200-275

+200-260

+200-250

Multifamily- Agency

+300

+250-310

+220-270

+220-260

+220-260

Regional Mall

+275-300

+225-300

+205-275

+205-270

+205-270

Grocery Anchored

+275-300

+225-300

+215-285

+205-275

+205-275

Strip and Power Centers

+235-300

+225-300

+225-300

Multi-Tenant Industrial

+250-350

+250-350

+230-325

+230-325

+230-325

CBD Office

+225-300

+225-300

+215-300

+215-300

+215-300

Suburban Office

+250-350

+275-350

+250-325

+250-325

+250-325

Full-Service Hotel

+300-450

+350-450

+350-450

+350-450

+350-450

Limited-Service Hotel

+450-600

+400-500

+400-500

+400-500

+400-500

1-Month LIBOR

0.26%

0.22%

0.19%

0.19%

0.19%

3-Month LIBOR

0.30%

0.28%

0.25%

0.25%

0.25%

* A dash (-) indicates a range.

Source: Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman.

Year-to-Date Public Equity Capital Markets

DJIA (1): +9.53%
S & P 500 (2):+6.97%
NASDAQ (3): +7.76%
Russell 2000 (4):+7.42%
MSCI U.S. REIT (5):+13.93%

(1) Dow Jones Industrial Average. (2) Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index. (3) NASD Composite Index. (4) Small Capitalization segment of U.S. equity universe. (5) Morgan Stanley REIT Index.

U.S. Treasury Yields

12/31/10

7/23/2011

3-Month

0.12%

0.03%

6-Month

0.18%

0.08%

2 Year

0.59%

0.39%

5 Year

2.01%

1.51%

10 Year

3.29%

2.96%

Stephen R. Blank joined ULI in December 1998 as Senior Fellow, Finance. His primary responsibilities include: expanding ULI’s real estate capital markets information and education programs; authoring real estate capital market commentary; participating as a principal researcher and adviser for the Emerging Trends in Real Estate series of publications; organizing and participating in real estate capital markets programs at ULI events worldwide; and participating in industry meetings, seminars, and conferences. Prior to joining ULI, Blank served from December 1993 to November 1998 as Managing Director, Real Estate Investment Banking of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. His responsibilities included: structuring, underwriting, and executing corporate financings including initial public offerings of common and preferred shares, unsecured debentures, and convertible bonds; property acquisitions, dispositions, and financing; and financial advisory services including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and recapitalizations.
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