KBRA releases the January 2022 issue of CMBS Trend Watch.

This month’s Spotlight reviews CMBS 2.0 defeasance which snapped back strongly in 2021 after falling by nearly 50% in 2020. Defeasance volume totaled $9.1 billion in full-year 2021, of which 45% closed in the last quarter. Conduit loan defeasance ($8.1 billion) represented much of the increase and was at its highest level in five years.

CMBS private label pricing volume totaled $6.9 billion for January, which was up 45.2% year-over-year (YoY). We currently have visibility of up to 17 deals that could launch in February 2022, including six to eight single-borrower (SB) transactions, three conduits, one Freddie Mac K-Series, and as many as five commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation (CRE CLO) transactions.

In January, KBRA published pre-sales for four deals ($5.2 billion) including two conduits ($2.7 billion), and two Freddie Mac K-Series ($2.5 billion). January’s surveillance activity included rating actions on 287 classes consisting of 253 affirmations and 34 downgrades. A total of 243 KBRA Loans of Concern (K-LOCs) were identified during the month’s surveillance reviews. There were also 18 KBRA Performance Outlook (KPO) changes: two to Outperform from Perform, two to Perform from Underperform, and 14 to Underperform from Perform.

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