Apartment Deal Failure Casts Shadow Over CMBS Market

January 25, 2010 at 07:00 PM
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A joint venture that acquired a huge New York apartment complex from an arm of MetLife Inc. in 2006 says it will give the complex to its creditors.

Units of Tishman Speyer Properties Inc., New York, and Black Rock Inc., New York, formed a joint venture that paid $5.4 billion for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village as the commercial real estate market and the market for commercial mortgage-backed securities were peaking.

The deal produced a gain of about $3 billion, MetLife, New York (NYSE:MET), said at the time.

But the managers of the joint venture faced regulatory constraints as well as real estate market and CMBS market slumps, and the managers say they no longer can afford to make their loan payments.

In the past, Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, (NYSE:HIG) reportedly held about $100 million in debt securities related to the joint venture.

Representatives from Hartford were not immediately available to comment on the situation.

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