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Mortgage REIT

Anthracite Capital Files Chapter 7

March 15, 2010

What took them so long? After months of being unable to service its debt, and numerous SEC filings describing the Company’s inability to cure its defaults, secured lenders finally closed in on Anthracite Capital, a struggling Mortgage REIT with a “legacy” portfolio full of almost worthless CMBS equity. While events began to spin out of […]

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Freddie Mac Says Lever it Up!

March 9, 2010
REIT Money Man

According to Instutional Investor, Freddie Mac is bringing its high leverage crack pipes back to the multi-family market. But the move is less a return to the go-go days than a sign of just how weak the market is, and it appears to be driven more by the fact that Freddie is running out of […]

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Northstar is Running out of Time; is Hamamoto Outside the Tent?

March 3, 2010

After a furious year of churning CMBS, repurchasing outstanding corporate debt and refinancing its bank loans, among other feats, Northstar actually ended the year with a little bit of cash. That’s the good news. The bad news is they’re going to need it. Northstar now has about $238 million in the bank, which includes the […]

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Mortgage REIT Directory

August 21, 2008

Lhis is the most complete, up-to-date Mortgage REIT list on the web; prices and yields update daily at the close. It includes links to the latest news and the home page of all REIT stocks on the list but one (Webster Preferred). The list is organized alphabetically and categorized by investment strategy. Given all that […]

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