Approximately $65.0 Million Notional Balance of Structured Securities Affected
New York, December 18, 2014 -- Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) downgraded the rating
of one notional class and affirmed the ratings of two notional classes
of Merrill Lynch Floating Trust Commercial Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2006-1 as follows:
Cl. X-1B, Downgraded to C (sf); previously on
Mar 5, 2014 Downgraded to Caa3 (sf)
Cl. X-3B, Affirmed C (sf); previously on Mar
5, 2014 Affirmed C (sf)
Cl. X-3C, Affirmed C (sf); previously on Mar
5, 2014 Affirmed C (sf)
RATING RATIONALE
The downgrade of interest-only (IO) Class X-1B was based
on non-payment of interest currently and the expectation that the
class will not receive interest payments in the future. The ratings
of IO Classes X-3B and X-3C were affirmed based on the credit
performance of their referenced loan, the Royal Holiday Portfolio
loan.
FACTORS THAT WOULD LEAD TO AN UPGRADE OR DOWNGRADE OF THE RATING:
The rating of an IO class is based on the credit performance of its referenced
classes. An IO class may be upgraded based on a lower weighted
average rating factor or WARF due to an overall improvement in the credit
quality of its reference classes. An IO class may be downgraded
based on a higher WARF due to a decline in the credit quality of its reference
classes, paydowns of higher quality reference classes or non-payment
of interest. Classes that have paid off through loan paydowns or
amortization are not included in the WARF calculation. Classes
that have experienced losses are grossed up for losses and included in
the WARF calculation, even if Moody's has withdrawn the rating.
METHODOLOGY UNDERLYING THE RATING ACTION
The principal methodology used in this rating was "Moody's Approach to
Rating CMBS Large Loan/Single Borrower Transactions" published in July
2000. Please see the Credit Policy page on www.moodys.com
for a copy of this methodology.
DESCRIPTION OF MODELS USED
Moody's review incorporated the use of the excel-based Large Loan
Model v 8.7. The large loan model derives credit enhancement
levels based on an aggregation of adjusted loan level proceeds derived
from Moody's loan level LTV ratios. Major adjustments to determining
proceeds include leverage, loan structure, property type,
and sponsorship. These aggregated proceeds are then further adjusted
for any pooling benefits associated with loan level diversity, other
concentrations and correlations.
DEAL PERFORMANCE
As of the December 15, 2014 Payment Date, the certificate
balance has decreased by 98% to $65.0 million from
$2.6 billion at securitization from the pay off of 14 loans.
One specially-serviced loan remains in the pool, the Royal
Holiday Portfolio loan ($65.0 million), secured by
six hotels located in Mexico with a total of 1,501-keys.
Two of the hotels are located in Cancun, and the other four hotels
are located in Cozumel, Ixtapa, Acapulco and San Jose del
Cabo. The loan was transferred to special servicing in February
2010 and is a non-performing matured loan. The borrower
had filed a Mexican bankruptcy petition for the Cozumel Caribe Hotel in
May 2010. The bankruptcy court terminated the flow of funds into
the lender's cash management system and blocked the lender from
pursuing remedies against the five other assets or the guarantors.
The borrower has not made debt service payments since May 2010,
nor has the borrower provided financials for the hotel properties.
Interest advances were terminated in late 2012. Currently,
approximately $16.5 million in servicer advances are outstanding,
including $4.5 million in interest advances with the balance
primarily for legal and insurance expenses. The $103.0
million whole loan includes $38.0 million in non-trust
subordinate debt. The special servicer is defending and pursuing
multiple legal actions and foresees a lengthy litigation. Moody's
current structured credit assessment is c (sca.pd), the same
as at last review.
The pool has experienced $1.0 million in cumulative bond
losses, affecting Class M. Interest shortfalls total $3.2
million and affect principal and interest (P&I) Classes L, M
and IO Classes X-3B and X-3C. Interest shortfalls
are caused by special servicing fees, including workout and liquidation
fees, appraisal subordinate entitlement reductions (ASERs) and extraordinary
trust expenses.
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
For further specification of Moody's key rating assumptions and
sensitivity analysis, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and
Sensitivity to Assumptions of the disclosure form.
Moody's did not receive or take into account a third-party
assessment on the due diligence performed regarding the underlying assets
or financial instruments related to the monitoring of this transaction
in the past six months.
The analysis includes an assessment of collateral characteristics and
performance to determine the expected collateral loss or a range of expected
collateral losses or cash flows to the rated instruments. As a
second step, Moody's estimates expected collateral losses or cash
flows using a quantitative tool that takes into account credit enhancement,
loss allocation and other structural features, to derive the expected
loss for each rated instrument.
Moody's did not use any stress scenario simulations in its analysis.
For ratings issued on a program, series or category/class of debt,
this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation
to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series
or category/class of debt or pursuant to a program for which the ratings
are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's
rating practices. For ratings issued on a support provider,
this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation
to the rating action on the support provider and in relation to each particular
rating action for securities that derive their credit ratings from the
support provider's credit rating. For provisional ratings,
this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation
to the provisional rating assigned, and in relation to a definitive
rating that may be assigned subsequent to the final issuance of the debt,
in each case where the transaction structure and terms have not changed
prior to the assignment of the definitive rating in a manner that would
have affected the rating. For further information please see the
ratings tab on the issuer/entity page for the respective issuer on www.moodys.com.
For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit
support from the primary entity(ies) of this rating action, and
whose ratings may change as a result of this rating action, the
associated regulatory disclosures will be those of the guarantor entity.
Exceptions to this approach exist for the following disclosures,
if applicable to jurisdiction: Ancillary Services, Disclosure
to rated entity, Disclosure from rated entity.
Regulatory disclosures contained in this press release apply to the credit
rating and, if applicable, the related rating outlook or rating
review.
Please see www.moodys.com for any updates on changes to
the lead rating analyst and to the Moody's legal entity that has issued
the rating.
Please see the ratings tab on the issuer/entity page on www.moodys.com
for additional regulatory disclosures for each credit rating.
Jay Rosen
Vice President - Senior Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
250 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10007
U.S.A.
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Sandra Ruffin
VP - Senior Credit Officer
Structured Finance Group
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Moody's Downgrades One and Affirms Two Classes of MLFT 2006-1