Factors Affecting Performance in Euro CMBS

May 25, 2009

European commercial real estate and European CMBS continue to feel the effects of the events of last year when credit contraction, asset-value declines, and dislocation throughout the global financial systems began to show their effects in European CMBS through rising rates of loan defaults. This article looks at the performance of the market since 2008 and considers some factors that are likely to be relevant in 2009 and that we review, among others, as part of our credit analysis of securitized pools or our assessment of the counterparty risk in the transactions we rate (all statistics in the article refer to 2008 unless otherwise indicated).

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