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Volgende fase begint; defaults op leningen. Artikel vanochtend in de FT.
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The biggest shopping mall in America is delinquent on its $1.4bn mortgage, in an ominous sign of how the pain in US retail is infecting the $500bn market for commercial mortgage-backed securities.
The owner of the Mall of America, a more than 2m square foot complex in Bloomington, Minnesota, that boasts a Nickelodeon Universe indoor theme park and more than 500 stores, missed its mortgage payments in April and May, documents prepared by Wells Fargo and reviewed by the Financial Times showed.
The mall, which was valued at more than $2bn in 2014, closed its doors in response to coronavirus in March and its management has notified Wells Fargo, the servicer overseeing the mortgage, of the hardship brought by the pandemic. It is unclear whether the owner is seeking forbearance on the loan.
The troubles facing the Mall of America, which is planning to reopen in June, are shared by other property owners grappling with lockdowns. Through the CMBS market, which slices loans into bonds with varying levels of risk, strains filter through to the portfolios of pension funds, hedge funds and other investors around the world.
Don Ghermezian, a senior executive at the real estate developer Triple Five Group, which owns the Mall of America, said in an interview with CNBC television last month that without federal assistance, “many malls will be headed into default”.
Triple Five Group and the Mall of America did not respond to requests for comment.