Hotel Foreclosures to Have ‘Huge Increase,’ Sonnenblick Says
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Hotel Foreclosures to Have ‘Huge Increase,’ Sonnenblick Says
There will be a “huge increase’” in U.S. hotel foreclosures next year as debts come due and little financing is available, said Robert Sonnenblick, a hotel developer.
The wave of commercial mortgage-backed securities needing replacement debt “is going to be a close-to-catastrophic problem,” Sonnenblick, chairman of Sonnenblick Development LLC, said today at the Bloomberg Commercial Real Estate Summit in New York. “The end result of all of this is you’re going to see a huge increase of hotel foreclosures.”
About $21.7 billion in commercial mortgage-backed securities on 232 hotels are coming due in the next 12 months and need to be refinanced, according to Realpoint, a securities ratings firm now owned by Morningstar Inc. At best, a third of that will be refinanced, with many properties being taken over by lenders, Sonnenblick said. Click here for the full story.
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