LIBOR to SOFR Rate Adjustment

Interested to hear what people are seeing from their lenders with regards to rate adjustments on their floating rate loans that were originated with LIBOR. We've had one lender do a straight conversion (1mo LIBOR to 1mo Term SOFR) with no adjustment. Another offering a 0.10% adjustment increase. I believe the AARC fallback recommendation was 0.11448% increase.

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1148 as well

For any less familiar readers, with LIBOR being phased out as an index rate, existing floating rate loans using LIBOR indexes are being amended to convert to SOFR index. It's not a 1:1 transition, meaning LIBOR and SOFR don't equal each other. What most have done is looked at how each index has priced relative to the other over a certain amount of history and come up with an "adjustment" that would theoretically bridge that gap. So if SOFR has historically priced 10 bps lower (or 0.10% or 0.001), the borrower isn't suddenly paying 10bps less in interest, or vice versa. The new rate under the amendment is basically now SOFR + 10bps + existing spread. No perfect solution but this is being considered a framework of a suitable approach 

 

Does the adjustment apply to new lenders?

If a property has L+200 debt with an upcoming maturity, does that mean a new lender would quote SOFR + 11.448 bps + new spread? Or would it just be SOFR + new spread?

In the scenario above, we're uw new debt at SOFR + 300... should we be doing SOFR + 11.448 + 300 to be more accurate? Is there an argument to be made that the 300 already contains the spread adjustment?  

 

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