Are deals falling out due to higher rates?

You guys see a ton of deals across several markets and asset classes. Are deals falling out of escrow or getting re-traded due to higher rates? Has this bump in rates caused you or your firm to pass on certain deals?

 
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Thanks for the input guys. Would love to hear other stories.

You would think this "Trump Bump" would level off soon. It's not like earnings are better. I still feel that even if sweeping tax reform comes that we're still looking at some type of a recession in the next year. As rates go up things are going to change for a lot of sectors. If QE slows down too...

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Within 2 weeks of the announcement Trump had won, we saw 4 re-trades.

Although the rates spiking, and potentially with another spike in the upcoming weeks, many buyer's have froze and are deciding how to work with their capital. With the general consensus of not many transactions going to happen in the foreseeable future, I believe this could be a decent opportunity for people to transact before rates hit the 6% benchmark, and we could see a good amount of transactions in these next couple of months before everyone truly does cutback on buying. Just my 2 cents.

 

Is it affecting deals? Sure, however it is bringing things back to reality. This is nothing compared to what is going to happen when the bond market has its upcoming issues.

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We haven't seen any deals fall out, but borrowers are pissed about the rate increases and trying to cram down spreads. However, since corporates haven't really moved, most lenders are holding firm.

 

That is about what I'm seeing - spreads holding around 170bps which is putting coupons just above 4%, or 40-60bps higher than where we were pre election.

 

Last week I had a meeting with a prospect that said they're not selling any of their properties in 2017. They foresee the rate increase pulling back pricing and therefore they don't believe they'll get what they want for them so they'd rather just sit on them and collect the cash. Another interesting anecdote... the equity market for LIHTC properties is frozen right now. With Trump's announcement that the corporate income tax rate will be scaled back to 15%, this has dried up the demand for tax credits. Still need to see how this plays out over the next six months but times are a changin'.

 

Maybe not precisely an answer to your question, but we've seen incredible volatility on interest rate cap pricing over the past two weeks. This hasn't necessarily caused any deals to fall out, but it's having an impact on our underwriting on deals moving forward, especially on smaller deals.

We currently have a deal under contract nearing close with a ~$25mm loan. The price for a 2-year cap was $40k last Wednesday, $44k last Thursday, $55k last Friday, $80k Monday, and $100k this Tuesday.

 

Have you checked after Tuesday? Doubled for us from Tuesday to Wednesday. It's been an incredibly overlooked line item under financing costs since LIBOR has been a joke, but it's nothing to be trifled with now. A lot of people don't even drop it in and underwrite 2% of "financing costs" in their entire budget. Lol.

EDIT: Dude what's your strike? That's way steep if it's anything above 2%.

 

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