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 ...

For the past several years, the U.S. housing market has faced an unusual constraint: not a lack of buyers, but a lack of sellers willing — or able — to move. Millions of homeowners remain “rate-locked ...

Defeasance probably isn’t a word you hear used in everyday conversation. When you’re buying a home, though, it’s important to know what it means — it refers to terminating something, or rendering it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Chapter: Charles B. Slocum at WGAW in L.A.’s Fairfax District. In this white-hot real estate market, a lot of commercial investors are looking to sell and take profits. Also, historically low ...

In our WSJ op ed, Alex Pollock and I suggested that the mortgage defeasance process might require direct government involvement to manage mortgage defeasance accounts by, for example, the U.S.