Millions of homeowners remain locked into ultra-low mortgage rates, freezing housing supply — defeasance may offer a ...

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A defeasance clause in real estate is a provision in loan agreements that defines how a borrower can satisfy the lender's requirements in order to release their lien on the property. This clause can ...

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Defeasance probably isn’t a word you hear used in everyday conversation. When you’re buying a home, though, it’s important to know what it means — it refers to terminating something, or rendering it ...

Defeasance provisions, which allow sponsors to swap out a loan with Treasuries that replicate the cash flows of the loan, have again become a popular option for CMBS borrowers looking to lock in rates ...

Defeasance is now a common feature of real estate finance, allowing a borrower to effectively prepay a loan that is not by its terms prepayable. A defeasance is a substitution of a loan's real estate ...

New legislation permitting conventional mortgage borrowers to use defeasance as a payoff option instead making a due-on-sale payoff must recognize and address several tax issues. Taxes are complicated ...

In our WSJ op ed, Alex Pollock and I suggested that the mortgage defeasance process might require direct government involvement to manage mortgage defeasance accounts by, for example, the U.S.

Every borrower looking to refinance an existing commercial real estate loan or sell a property encumbered by one needs to consider how to release its existing financing. Commercial loan documents ...

With the defeasance sector heating back up, as more borrowers look to replace their CMBS loans with U.S. Treasuries to lock in low interest rates, Wells Fargo set an eyebrow-raising record last year.