DBRS Morningstar Assigns Provisional Ratings to SUMIT 2022-BVUE Mortgage Trust, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2022-BVUE

DBRS, Inc. (DBRS Morningstar) assigned provisional ratings to the classes of SUMIT 2022-BVUE Mortgage Trust, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2022-BVUE:

-- Class A at AAA (sf)
-- Class X-A at AA (low) (sf)
-- Class B at AA (sf)
-- Class C at A (high) (sf)
-- Class D at BBB (high) (sf)
-- Class E at BBB (low) (sf)
-- Class F at BB (low) (sf)
-- Class HRR at B (high) (sf)

All trends are Stable. Class X-A is an interest-only (IO) class whose balance is notional.

The SUMIT 2022-BVUE transaction is secured by the fee-simple interest in The Summit, a 907,306-sf, LEED Gold and Platinum, Class A three-property office campus in the Bellevue, Washington, CBD. The property is situated on an 3.5-acre site, offering a unique urban campus environment that has helped attract and retain some of the region’s most prominent tenants. The Summit is strategically located two blocks from I-405, the Eastside’s primary interstate, and one block from both the Bellevue Transit Center and the Bellevue Downtown Light Rail Station (scheduled to open in 2023). The property also offers a subterranean interconnected parking garage with 2,194 stalls. The sponsor acquired The Summit in December 2019 from Hines Global REIT as the non-traded real estate investment trust was working to liquidate assets and distribute the sales proceeds to equityholders. At the time of the acquisition, the complex was 99.0% leased and comprised two existing office buildings with a third building (Summit 3) under construction, which was expected to be completed in Q3 2020 but was ultimately delayed until 2021 because of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

The Summit campus is anchored by Amazon (AA/A1/AA), which occupies 374,220 sf and makes up 41.3% of NRA on a lease through August 2036. Overall, the property’s tenant roster comprises approximately 78.5% investment-grade tenancy by square footage including Puget Sound Energy Inc. (Puget Sound Energy) (223,820 sf; 24.7% of NRA; lease expiry October 2028; BBB/Baa3/BBB) and First Republic Bank (73,910 sf; 8.2% of NRA; lease expiry March 2032; A-/Baa1/A-). An additional 133,059 sf/14.7% of NRA is leased to WeWork and is 100% subleased by Amazon. Including the Amazon enterprise sublease from WeWork, approximately 93% of the property’s gross rents are derived from investment grade-rated tenants. As of January, 1 2022, the property was 98.2% leased with a WA remaining lease term of 10.7 years.

The transaction sponsorship is a 99%/1% joint venture between KKR Property Partners Americas (KPPA) and Urban Renaissance Group (URG). KPPA is indirectly controlled by KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), a leading global investment firm with $459 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2021. KKR manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and credit, with strategic manager partnerships that manage hedge funds. KKR Real Estate is a global provider of equity and debt capital across real estate investment strategies. As of September 31, 2021, KKR’s team consisted of more than 135 dedicated investment and asset management professionals across nine countries, with more than $36 billion of assets under management. In 2019, KKR launched the firm’s first perpetual-life, open-ended core plus real estate fund, KPPA, which targets institutional-quality, stabilized real estate assets across the U.S. As of September 31, 2021, KPPA had $1.9 billion in net asset value across a diversified portfolio of industrial, multifamily, life sciences, and traditional office. URG was founded in 2006 and is a Seattle-based full-service commercial real estate company that is recognized as the top manager and operator of trophy commercial properties throughout the Bellevue, Seattle, Denver, and Portland markets. URG has been actively involved since the 2019 acquisition of the Summit campus and oversees all property and asset management responsibilities, including day-to-day operations of the Summit 3 construction process.

Barclays Capital Real Estate Inc. and Goldman Sachs Bank USA originated the seven-year loan that pays fixed-rate interest of 3.352% on an IO basis through the entire term. The $525 million whole loan is composed of 10 promissory notes: eight senior A notes totaling $327 million and two junior B notes totaling $198 million. The SUMIT 2022-BVUE mortgage trust will total $305 million and consist of two senior A notes with an aggregate principal balance of $107.0 million and the two junior B notes totaling $198.0 million. The remaining senior A notes will be held by the originator and may be included in a future securitization. The senior notes are pari passu in right of payment with respect to each other. The senior notes are generally senior in right of payment to the junior notes.

The sponsor for the transaction is partially using proceeds from the whole loan to repatriate approximately $129.3 million of equity. DBRS Morningstar views cash-out refinancing transactions as less favorable than acquisition financings as sponsors typically have less incentive to support a property through times of economic stress if less of their own cash equity is at risk. Based on the appraiser’s as-is valuation of $895.5 million, the sponsor will have approximately $370.5 million of cash and unencumbered market equity remaining in the transaction.

Class X-A is an interest-only (IO) certificate that references multiple rated tranches. The IO rating mirrors the lowest-rated applicable reference obligation tranche adjusted upward by one notch if senior in the waterfall.

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Notes:
All figures are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

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