Investor Demand Intensifies for SASB, Floating-Rate CMBS “You have investors like sovereign wealth funds coming in and taking the entire stack,” says one industry insider.
Bond investors are hungry for CMBS, and they’re gobbling up entire tranches, from the top of the credit stack to the bottom. But they have a picky palate they’re not interested in pandemic-weakened property types.
“Demand is terrific,” said Manus Clancy, senior managing director at Trepp LLC. “With interest rates so spectacularly low, CMBS is one area where investors can still get some spread over the 10-year curve.”
The composition of bond investors hasn’t changed much from previous years it’s still the same institutions and money managers that have always played in this market. The big difference is the amount of capital they have to deploy, according to Edward L. Shugrue III, managing director at New York-based RiverPark Advisors LLC and portfolio manager for the RiverPark Floatin