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

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Janell Otis fixed-rate, conduit/commercial mortgage-backed securities, HUD Defeasance is the preferred form of call protection for fixed-rate conduit/commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loans ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In their Transactional Real Estate column, Peter E. Fisch and Mitchell L. Berg discuss a common feature of real estate finance—defeasance—which allows a borrower to effectively prepay a loan that is ...