St Louis Mortgage News Reports Higher Delinquencies With Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities

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Commercial News: Housing Experts Say CMBS Delinquencies Increasing to 6 Percent

The latest housing news has been geared toward the imminent rise of commercial mortgage foreclosures that have been predicted to his this country hard in 2010 and 2011.

Just recently, data has been reported that the delinquent unpaid balance for commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) has increased to $47.82 billion in February 2010, soaring $1.87 billion from January, according to the latest Monthly CMBS Delinquency Report released by investment rating agency Realpoint, LLC.

Comparative statistics show that the overall delinquent unpaid balance was up almost 300% from February 2009, when only $11.98 billion of delinquent unpaid balance was reported.

But that wasn’t the biggest increase with CMBS delinquencies. Looking back close to three years ago, today’s delinquencies was more than 21 times the low point of $2.21 billion in March 2007.

However, the bad news may be worse. The distressed 90-plus day, foreclosure, and REO categories grew in quick proportions for the 26th straight month which was 9 percent from January 2010 and a shocking 420 percent higher than the same month in 2009.

Overall, the total unpaid balance for CMBS pools reviewed by Realpoint for the February 2010 remittance was $797.06 billion, down slightly from $797.3 billion in January.

Thus, the resultant delinquency ratio for February jumped to 6 percent, up from 5.76 percent reported one month previous. This was more than four times the 1.43 percent reported just one year ago and again more than 21 times the Realpoint-recorded low point of 0.283 percent from June 2007.

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