The CRED iQ research team focused upon the underwriting of the latest market transactions. We wanted to understand they key loan metrics across this universe to get a real-time sense of the new issues marketplace.
CRED iQ analyzed underwriting metrics for the latest 3 CMBS conduit transactions. We reviewed 158 properties associated with 101 new loans totaling $2.4 billion in loan originations. All of the loans originated within the past 4 months. Our analysis examined interest rates, loan-to-values (“LTV”), DSCR (NCF), debt yields, and cap rates. We further broke down these statistics to show a minimum, maximum and average for each metric and by property type.
The average interest rate across all loans and property types was 6.9%, average LTV was 59.2%, implied cap rates averaged 6.4% with debt yields averaging 11.7%.
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Office
In total, 16 properties (of the 158 total in our analysis) were secured by office assets, comprising a total loan balance of $500 million. Average interest rates were 7.3%, average implied cap rates averaged 7.02% Debt yields and LTVs averaged 12.1% and 59.2, respectively.
Multifamily
There were 51 properties secured by multifamily properties totaling $980 million in new loan originations. Interest rates averaged of 6.70%. Cap rates averaged 6.00% for the multifamily sector. Average debt yields were 10.4% and LTVs averaged 62.5%, which was the highest for each of the sectors.
Retail
The retail component had a total of $345 million. In total, 18 properties were secured by retail properties. Interest rates average 6.87%. Cap rates averaged 6.16% for the retail sector. The average debt yield was 12.3%. Average LTVs were 57.3%.
Other Notable Findings
Hotels had the highest average interest rate (7.57%), cap rate (7.24%), and debt yield (12.7%) across the sectors.
Self Storage (3 properties, $27 million) and Manufactured housing (12 properties, $70 million) represented the smallest property types.
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