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Fitch Sees Debt Woes in Stuyvesant Town

NEW YORK CITY-The rating agency says a reserve fund to meet debt on the East Side apartment complex could be exhausted in six months.

By Paul Bubny | Updated on January 23, 2009

NEW YORK CITY-Fitch Ratings says a reserve fund to cover debt service on the Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village apartment complex will run dry in six months. The debt service reserve balance on a $3-billion securitized loan has decreased to $127.7 million from $400 million, and the 11,277-unit complex’s cash flow is not expected to improve for 2009, the rating agency says.

“Although the property’s performance remains consistent, the cash flow generated from the property continues to require significant reserves to cover debt service obligations,” the rating agency states. Fitch says a general reserve balance has been “completely depleted.”

Fitch’s review, issued Thursday, follows its downgrade last October of 26 classes of bonds tied to the loan. The bonds were downgraded because the conversion of rent stabilized units to market rate was “slower than anticipated,” according to Fitch. Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s lowered their ratings on CMBS related to the loan last fall for similar reasons; S&P also cited unexpectedly high expenses to operate the complex and to convert rent-stabilized units to market rate. There is also approximately $1.5 billion in mezzanine debt on the property, says Fitch.

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