NEW YORK CITY-Payoffs are happening. Locally based Trepp reports that the percentage of loans getting paid off by their balloon date was 61.8% last month—the fifth time in six months that the rate has exceeded 60%. But the February numbers are also well ahead of the 12 month average of 49.2%.
What does it all mean? It continues the upward trajectory of the market. “Refinancings continue to happen at dramatically higher level than a year ago,” Manus Clancy, senior managing director of Trepp, tells GlobeSt.com, “and that bodes well for CRE lenders and borrowers.”