Al Barbarino

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), the listed US debt investor, has completed $143.6m in new investments. The REIT, which is managed by Apollo Global Management, has made a $50.2m CMBS acquisition and two loans totaling $93.4m – one of which was secured by a Times Square hotel in New York City. Ari acquired a $28.3m […]

Prudential Mortgage Capital Company has provided $131.7m in first mortgages to refinance a Lock Up/Evergreen Storage portfolio of 18 US properties. The financing is comprised of a $20m, seven-year, floating rate tranche, and a $111.7m, 10-year, fixed rate tranche. Prudential said that the post-recession shift in housing demand from owning to renting continues to drive its faith […]

Colony American Homes’ second single-family rental securitization, the $558.5m Colony American Homes 2014-2, is on the market, becoming the fifth such offering in the rapidly growing asset class. Despite inherent risks in this and other SFR deals, such as house price volatility, managers with limited operating history, and the  geographic concentration of the assets, analysts tell […]

Investors welcome single-family rental-backed bonds, despite risks, writes Al Barbarino