CMBS markets are ramping up for a blast of activity that they haven't seen since the first half of last year.
In the past few days, three new deals totaling $2.67 billion have priced or hit the streets, part of an expected larger volume of spring deals to come. "The roughly $11 billion of CMBS deals lined up through April puts the market on pace for PPR's prediction of $35 billion in 2012," says John O'Callahan, capital market strategist for CoStar.