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AR Capital to Continue to Raise Capital for Realty Finance Trust
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Realty Finance Trust, one of a number of non-traded REITs sponsored by AR Capital, will continue to raise capital through February 16. Yesterday, AR Capital announced that it would stop accepting new investments in ...
Real Estate Groups Eye Strategy for Responding to Liquidity Regulation
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Real estate industry lobbyists are working to come up with responses to a newly adopted federal regulation that requires large banks selling assets into securitizations, including CMBS, to set aside liquid assets to match ...
Risk-Retention Rules Seen Advancing
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report The SEC, FDIC and Federal Reserve are said to have reached an agreement on a framework that would result in the formalization of rules governing risk retention. Those rules are part of the Dodd-Frank ...
Fed OKs Risk-Based Capital Rules
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday approved its version of the Basel III risk-based capital requirements, consolidating versions that had been proposed by the Comptroller of the Currency and FDIC. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, the final rule does not ...
Banking Regulators to Vote on Basel III Implementation in U.S.
Federal regulators on Tuesday are scheduled to unveil and vote on the final provisions they have set for this country's implementation of international banking standards that could result in banks pulling back on their commercial real estate activities, including lending, ...
FASB Develops Guidelines for Fair-Value Accounting Proposal
The rule maker for financial reporting is developing guidelines for a new standard that would prohibit a vast majority of commercial real estate investors from depreciating property values in their financial reports. FASB has issued an exposure draft of the ...
Obama’s Jobs Bill Includes Carried Interest Tax Hike
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report The jobs bill that President Barack Obama promoted during a speech last week includes increasing the tax on the carried interests of investment partnerships to the same rate as that on ordinary income from ...
Accounting Change Would Tag Restructured Loans as Troubled
New accounting guidelines have taken effect that could force lenders to reclassify as troubled restructurings any commercial mortgages and other loans that have been reworked since the start of this year. The guidelines could prompt lenders to foreclose on or ...
Realpoint: Despite Potential Red Tape, SEC Rule is Good “Starting Point”
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportMost rating agencies argue that a recently implemented SEC rule could result in ratings volatility.But Realpoint, the newest entrant to the ranks of nationally recognized statistical rating organizations, says the rule, 17 g-5, is the ...
Fed Funds $857Mln of $1.3Bln of TALF Requests for CMBS
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York funded only $857 million of the $1.3 billion of requests it received for loans under its Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF, for legacy CMBS.As reported, investors ...
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