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Minority-Owned Fund Sees Positive Mortgage Performance

UCM Partners, a private, minority-owned fixed income investment boutique, recently announced the one-year anniversary of its Opportunistic Mortgage Strategy Fund. The fund currently has approximately $60 million in assets under management, and UCM Partners reports that it exceeded its absolute return target of 12-15 percent by more than double in its first year.

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CMBS Delinquencies Moderate, but Rate Still Above 8%: Reports

Special servicers of commercial real estate loans are feverishly pursing workouts and liquidations. Their efforts have helped to moderate increases in past dues, but delinquency rates, nonetheless, continue to rise. Two industry reports released last week served to drive this point home. Fitch Ratings says the delinquency rate on loans held in its rated commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) hit 8.48 percent in August. Moody's reported a similar increase to 8.10 percent.

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Investment Firm Acquires Stake in $760M FDIC Loan Portfolio

Mariner Real Estate Management has announced the purchase of a portfolio of approximately 1,100 residential and commercial loans from 20 failed banks. The real estate investment and management firm conducted the $760 million transaction with the FDIC. Mariner paid about $52 million for a 40 percent managing member interest in the limited liability company created by the FDIC to hold all the loans and REO assets.

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Bank Closings Worsen Liquidity Crisis, Remington Capital Reports

The uptick in bank failures is further deteriorating the nation's liquidity crisis, according to Andy Bogdanoff, chairman of Remington Capital, an international commercial real estate investment banking company. This surge in bank closings may ignite more bankruptcies for commercial real estate owners in need of financing, he warns, particularly since some $1.2 trillion in commercial mortgage debt is scheduled to mature over the next few years and most U.S. banks are unable or unwilling to extend new credit.

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Securities Unit of Bankrupt Capmark Lands with MountainView

MountainView Capital Holdings recently announced that it has acquired the fixed income broker-dealer arm of the bankrupt commercial real estate lender Capmark Financial Group. Capmark sold off its North American loan origination and servicing businesses to Berkadia Commercial Mortgage at the end of last year, and its real estate equity advisory subsidiary, Capmark Investments, to Trecap Partners in March 2010.

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Accounting Firm Combination Creates Largest Non-Big 4 in NY Metro

Accounting firms Eisner LLP and Amper, Politziner & Mattia, LLP, recently merged to create EisnerAmper LLC's real estate group, doubling the size of the firm's real estate practice. The New York-based firm is now the largest non-Big 4 firm in the greater New York metropolitan region and the 14th largest in the nation. The company now offers developers, property owners and managers, and others in the industry a broader array of professional services.

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Trepp Reports More Maturing CMBS Loans Being Paid Off

Industry experts and regulators have been issuing dire warnings for months that the more than $1 trillion in commercial mortgages coming due over the next couple of years could be a hurdle that the real estate sector - and the entire national economy, for that matter - can't clear. But the research firm Trepp LLC says it's seeing a strong increase in the number of loans within commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) that are being paid off in full at maturity. Fifty percent were paid off in July, the most since December 2008.

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Four Major Banks Could Be Hit with $180B in GSE Loan Buybacks: Fitch

About 50 percent of the loans held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac come from the nation's four largest banks - Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citi. Lately, the GSEs have become more aggressive in forcing originators to buy back bad loans. Based on Fannie and Freddie's current ""distressed"" numbers (a combined $354 billion in delinquent mortgages and REOs), Fitch Ratings estimates that the big four could be on the hook to repurchase as much as $180 billion in nonperforming assets.

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Steel Mountain Capital Initiates SMART Asset Management

SMART Servicing, LLC, an affiliate of Steel Mountain Capital Management, recently announced the availability of its new privately owned software, ""SMART""--Servicing Management Asset Recovery & Tracking. The system provides residential mortgage professionals with relevant loan-level information to control loss severity, as well as asset-level transparency outside the traditional servicing system formats, the company says.

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Losses on CMBS Loan Liquidations Climb in Q2: Moody’s

The severity of losses on liquidating loans backing U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) exceeded their historical average in the second quarter, Moody's Investors Service says in a new report. During Q2, the credit ratings agency says the 342 commercial real estate loans liquidated for a loss had a weighted average loss severity of 42.8 percent, 740 basis points higher than the current average. And Moody's expects loss severity to worsen as more 2006-2008 loans go bad.

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