MTGP - CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes By Most On Record
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities backed by hotel and mall properties get hit the hardest. Mall-REIT CBL failed to make bond interest payment Tuesday.
The delinquency rate for commercial mortgage-backed securities ((CMBS)) spiked from 2.29% in April to 7.15% in May by loan balance, according to Trepp Wednesday, which tracks securitized mortgages for institutional clients. This month-to-month spike of 481 basis points in the Trepp CMBS Delinquency Rate was the largest in Trepp's data going back to 2009:
This 7.15% delinquency rate is composed of mostly 30-day delinquencies. The way 30-day delinquencies shot to such prominence, far