Shlomi Ronen

LOS ANGELES—Next year, the final round of CMBS debt from the last cycle will mature. In total, it is about $86 billion in CMBS debt that will need to be refinanced, and according to Shlomi Ronen, principal and founder of Dekel Capital, that is great news for the capital markets because it will create “forced transaction volume,” and will create a lot of opportunities. To find out more, we sat down with Ronen from an exclusive interview to talk about the state of the CMBS market, what to expect next year and if the push for early refinance for CMBS borrowers has helped to ease the burden, in this exclusive interview.

GlobeSt.com: What is going to happen to the $86 million in CMBS debt that needs to be refinanced next year?

Shlomi Ronen: It is going to create $86 billion of forced transaction volume next year. I expect it to be a pretty active year for the real estate industry. Even though we have this wholesale maturity happening next year and there is a big concentration in office and retail, the maturing loans are going to present some opportunity. However, that is going to take some time. CMBS lenders typically don't sell a loan if it is in default, either through a lender or through foreclosure. None of that happens quickly, so even though we will see $86 billion maturing next year, some of that will get paid off through a sponsor's new partnership or mezzanine loans. There will be some distress. We have already started to see an uptick in default rates on CMBS loans. We will continue to see that next year with term defaults. I think that there will be quite a bit of transactional volume around this next year.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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