KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings to JPMCC 2022-NLP

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KBRA is pleased to announce the assignment of preliminary ratings to nine classes of JPMCC 2022-NLP, a CMBS single borrower securitization.

The collateral for the transaction is a $1.1 billion floating rate, interest-only mortgage loan. The loan has an initial two-year term with three, one-year extension options and requires monthly interest-only payments based on one-month SOFR. There is also $212.0 million of mezzanine debt in place. The loan is secured by the borrower’s fee simple interest in 19 assets and the leasehold interest in six assets. Of the 25 assets, there are 16 industrial properties and nine office properties. In total, the portfolio contains 9.5 million sf with properties located in 18 states throughout the US. The top five states are Texas (12.8% of allocated loan amount), New Jersey (12.0%), Maryland (12.0%), Florida (8.5%), and California (7.6%). As of January 2022, the portfolio was 98.9% leased to 27 unique tenants. The five largest tenants by base rent consist of McCormick & Company (10.0% of base rent), Indeed (9.8%), DTCC (7.8%), Cox Automotive (7.6%), and Carvana (7.3%). Together, these five tenants account for 42.6% of total base rent and 17.8% of total sf.

KBRA’s analysis of the transaction included a detailed evaluation of the properties’ cash flows using our U.S. CMBS Property Evaluation Methodology and the application of our U.S. CMBS Single Borrower & Large Loan Rating Methodology. In addition, KBRA also relied on its Global Structured Finance Counterparty Methodology for assessing counterparty risk in this transaction and its ESG Global Rating Methodology, to the extent deemed applicable.

The results of our analysis yielded a KBRA net cash flow (KNCF) of $78.1 million, which is 8.4% below the issuer’s NCF, and a KBRA value of $867.1 million, which is 46.6% below the appraiser’s aggregate as-is value for the properties. The resulting in-trust KBRA Loan to Value (KLTV) is 124.9%. In our analysis of the transaction, we also reviewed and considered third party engineering, environmental, seismic, and appraisal reports, the results of our site inspections, and legal documentation review.

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Related Publications

• U.S. CMBS Property Evaluation Methodology
• U.S. CMBS Single Borrower & Large Loan Rating Methodology
• Methodology for Rating Interest-Only Certificates in CMBS Transactions
• Global Structured Finance Counterparty Methodology
• ESG Global Rating Methodology

Disclosures
Further information on key credit considerations, sensitivity analyses that consider what factors can affect these credit ratings and how they could lead to an upgrade or a downgrade, and ESG factors (where they are a key driver behind the change to the credit rating or rating outlook) can be found in the full rating report referenced above.

A description of all substantially material sources that were used to prepare the credit rating and information on the methodology(ies) (inclusive of any material models and sensitivity analyses of the relevant key rating assumptions, as applicable) used in determining the credit rating is available in the Information Disclosure Form(s) located here.

Information on the meaning of each rating category can be located here.

Further disclosures relating to this rating action are available in the Information Disclosure Form(s) referenced above. Additional information regarding KBRA policies, methodologies, rating scales and disclosures are available at www.kbra.com.

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