KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings to HGMT 2025-HGLR

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KBRA announces the assignment of preliminary ratings to three classes of HGMT 2025-HGLR, a CMBS single-borrower securitization.

The collateral for the transaction is a $1.2 billion non-recourse, first lien mortgage loan that is expected to be originated by Bank of America, N.A. (BANA), Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (WFB), Barclays Capital Real Estate Inc. (BCREI), Goldman Sachs Bank USA (GS Bank), German American Capital Corporation (GACC), Bank of Montreal (BMO), JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association (JPMCB), Citi Real Estate Funding, Inc. (CREFI), Societe Generale Financial Corporation (SGFC), Natixis Real Estate Capital LLC (NREC), and Santander Bank, N.A. (SB) prior to the transaction closing date of February 13, 2025. The fixed rate loan has a ten-year term and requires monthly interest-only payments based on a fixed rate that is expected to be 6.00%. The loan is secured by the borrower’s fee simple interest in Houston Galleria, a 2.0 million sf super-regional mall located in Houston, Texas, of which 1.6 million sf serves as collateral of the subject loan. The collateral, excluding temporary tenants, is 91.7% leased to over 250 unique tenants.

KBRA’s analysis of the transaction included a detailed evaluation of the properties’ cash flows using our North American CMBS Property Evaluation Methodology and the application of our North American 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) for the property of approximately $127.8 million, which is 5.7% below the issuer’s NCF, and a KBRA value of approximately $1.8 billion, which is 49.2% below the appraiser’s as-is value. The resulting in-trust KBRA Loan to Value (KLTV) is 68.3%. In our analysis of the transaction, we also reviewed and considered third party engineering, environmental, and appraisal reports, the results of our site inspection of the property, and legal documentation review.

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Methodologies

• Structured Finance: Global Structured Finance Counterparty Methodology
• CMBS: North American CMBS Property Evaluation Methodology
• CMBS: North American CMBS Single Borrower & Large Loan Rating 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.

About KBRA

Kroll Bond Rating Agency, LLC (KBRA), one of the major credit rating agencies (CRA), is a full-service CRA registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an NRSRO. Kroll Bond Rating Agency Europe Limited is registered as a CRA with the European Securities and Markets Authority. Kroll Bond Rating Agency UK Limited is registered as a CRA with the UK Financial Conduct Authority. In addition, KBRA is designated as a Designated Rating Organization (DRO) by the Ontario Securities Commission for issuers of asset-backed securities to file a short form prospectus or shelf prospectus. KBRA is also recognized as a Qualified Rating Agency by Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission and is recognized by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners as a Credit Rating Provider (CRP) in the U.S.

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