--- title: Commercial Loans and Fun Blog | hotel loans description: hotel loans | George Blackburne, owner, offers insight into the commercial loans and mortgage industry in this Commercial Real Estate Loan Tips blog. --- [![c-loans-logo-2025](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/c-loans-logo-2025.png?width=183&height=86&name=c-loans-logo-2025.png)](https://c-loans.com) [Terms of Use](https://www.c-loans.com/terms-of-use) | [Disclaimer](https://www.c-loans.com/disclaimer) | [Blog](https://info.c-loans.com/) # Commercial Loans and Fun Blog ## [Update:  CMBS Hotel Lenders Are Out of the Commercial Loan Market](https://info.c-loans.com/update-cmbs-hotel-lenders-are-out-of-the-commercial-loan-market) Posted by [George Blackburne](https://info.c-loans.com/author/george-blackburne) on Fri, Mar 13, 2020 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![Hotel](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Hotel.jpg?width=275&name=Hotel.jpg)No sooner had I written a blog post last week about the attractiveness of CMBS loan rates right now, than I got a message for one of my subscribers informing me that conduits are no longer making hotel loans.   By the way, CMBS lenders are still making their large permanent loans on the ***Four Basic Food Groups*** - multifamily, office, retail, and industrial - at ***incredibly low*** interest rates today.   [![Apply For a CMBS Loan From a Conduit](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/116ca97d-7dde-4312-938b-10aa7f64cc5d.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/116ca97d-7dde-4312-938b-10aa7f64cc5d)   ![](https://info.c-loans.com/hubfs/Cats%20Scatter.gif)   [![Earn 11% to 12% Interest Since 1980](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/80333ce3-b6a5-4bf7-9687-52c156ed5457.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/80333ce3-b6a5-4bf7-9687-52c156ed5457)   It makes sense why the conduits have stopped making hotel loans.  Hotel occupancy rates are getting slammed right now by the Coronavirus Crisis. Conduits make large, cookie-cutter, commercial real estate loans that are quickly aggregated into large pools and securitized into commercial mortgage-backed securities ("CMBS"). Conduits are ***not*** portfolio lenders. They can't just say, "Well, hotels are getting clobbered right now, but the world is not going to stop needing hotels. Since all of our commercial lending competitors are out of the hotel loan market right now, our bank will sneak in there and make a bunch of juicy loans on some of the very nicest hotels in the country."   [![Apply For a Commercial Loan to Blackburne & Sons](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/34e9010d-6f3b-4979-93c2-9e705da5a9fc.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/34e9010d-6f3b-4979-93c2-9e705da5a9fc)   ![Cajun Sanitizer](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Cajun%20Sanitizer.png?width=390&name=Cajun%20Sanitizer.png)   [![Submit Your Loan to 750 Commercial Lenders Using C-Loans.com.  It's Free!](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/dcd11210-cbb0-42bd-b761-d0cb0da003c9.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/dcd11210-cbb0-42bd-b761-d0cb0da003c9)   Because conduits are ***not*** portfolio lenders, they can't hold commercial loans on their lines of credit for very long.  They need to sell them off quickly.  They can't hold these loans for two years, say, until the hotel market recovers. ***Conduit*** is short for commercial real estate mortgage investment conduit, a specialized type of commercial mortgage company that originates loans for the CMBS market. The thing that is special about conduits is that they get to sell their loans to a special kind of trust, called a ***pass-through trust***, created by Congress, which does ***not*** have to pay taxes on its income from these commercial mortgages.   [![Free Commercial Loan Software](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/91457cad-8798-4053-804b-fc684233b7cc.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/91457cad-8798-4053-804b-fc684233b7cc) ![Hand Melted](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Hand%20Melted.png?width=401&name=Hand%20Melted.png)   [![Free Commercial Loan Placement Kit](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/882eb54a-a8b4-4c38-a2ed-605338b6f07a.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/882eb54a-a8b4-4c38-a2ed-605338b6f07a)   This special pass-through trust assembles a whole bunch (100 to 300) of these large, cookie-cutter, commercial loans into a pool.  Then the trust sells ***pass-through securities***, backed by the stream of payments and payoff's coming from the first mortgages in this pool.  We call them pass-through securities because only the securities buyer (bond buyer) has to pay taxes on his interest income, not the pass-through trust. Think of an old-fashioned C-corp.  The C-corp pays taxes on its net income, and then the stock owners pay taxes on their dividends.  C-Loans is a C-corp.  Yikes.  It's a form on ***double-taxation***. Congress created authorized commercial mortgage investment pass-through trusts to avoid this double-taxation.  (They had created *residential* mortgage pass-through trusts a couple of decades earlier.)  This move to avoid double-taxation created the commercial Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit industry ("REMIC") industry.   [![Free List of 200 Commercial Lenders](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/3da67ca8-0ae4-4537-a365-87388c9287a1.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/3da67ca8-0ae4-4537-a365-87388c9287a1)   ![](https://info.c-loans.com/hubfs/Fish%20Jump.gif)   [![Free List of 3,159 Commercial Lenders Sort By Your Own Criteria](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/edc33fe8-9d87-477b-bf2f-07a33d3d2d24.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/edc33fe8-9d87-477b-bf2f-07a33d3d2d24)   By the way, a ***portfolio lender*** is a lender that makes its loans using its own dough and intends to hold these loans for the entire term.  A bank is an example of a portfolio lender.  A family office is another example of a portfolio lender. A commercial lender using a line of credit from a bank is ***not*** a portfolio lender because the bank that is providing the line of credit is probably going to reevaluate that ***credit facility*** annually.  There is no guarantee that the bank will renew it. Therefore, a commercial lender using a line of credit will need to sell off the commercial loans in his portfolio on a regular basis.  He won't hold them until maturity.   [![Nine-Hour Video Training Course How to Broker Commercial Loans](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/2fa994cb-f6ac-4671-821f-b4bd48cb5f1f.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/2fa994cb-f6ac-4671-821f-b4bd48cb5f1f)   ![Shopping Cart Handle](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Shopping%20Cart%20Handle.jpg?width=326&name=Shopping%20Cart%20Handle.jpg)   [![Earn HUGE Loan Servicing Fees Become a Hard Money Lender](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/9a0940aa-f68a-41c7-8b4a-c9b1cf97a1ca.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/9a0940aa-f68a-41c7-8b4a-c9b1cf97a1ca)   [![Get Both Video Training Programs For Just $849.](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/d0fb44bc-2893-4551-8a92-6a5080c4296e.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/d0fb44bc-2893-4551-8a92-6a5080c4296e)   Lastly, I have used the term, "large commercial loan", throughout his article.  Conduits seldom make commercial loans of less than $5 million. **Some Thoughts on the Coronavirus Crisis:** You will recall that I made you uncomfortable (and probably bored) a few months ago when I described how the virus would soon become a pandemic and that it would cause another great recession, or possibly even a full-blown depression. I just wanted to remind you that Chinese small business owners, who employ 60% of the Chinese workforce, have been traumatized.  They are not going to want to take on additional debt.   [![List of Commercial Lenders 2,500 For Just $79.95](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/9488a761-b4e6-4b02-b82c-4ccc932612bc.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/9488a761-b4e6-4b02-b82c-4ccc932612bc)   ![](https://info.c-loans.com/hubfs/Dog%20in%20my%20spot.gif)   [![Banks and Credit Unions: Get 200 Free SBA Loan Leads](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/eb103ba9-3328-470e-bdda-e29c55be2881.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/eb103ba9-3328-470e-bdda-e29c55be2881)   The Chinese Communist Party can order the Chinese banks to lend, but it can't order small business owners to borrow.  When banks can't find willing borrowers, yet they keep raking in monthly payments, the multiplier effect kicks into reverse.  Any monthly payment that is not recycled into a new loan reduces the Chinese money supply by a factor of twenty.   In other words, if a Chinese bank takes in a $1,000 loan payment and doesn't immediately recycle it into a new loan, a whopping $20,000 gets sucked out of the Chinese money supply.  In the parlance of economists, $20,000 is ***destroyed***.  During the Great Recession, about $4 trillion were destroyed. The reason why this is important is because even if a cure, or even an effective treatment, for coronavirus is discovered today, the average Chinese small businessmen has already been traumatized.  He is not going to be borrowing even more money from the bank.   [![Video Course - How To Market For Commercial Loans](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/c1051bad-ef5d-4c65-b573-e4432b1769ef.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/c1051bad-ef5d-4c65-b573-e4432b1769ef)   ![Colored TP](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Colored%20TP.png?width=392&name=Colored%20TP.png)   [![Commercial Mortgage Brokers You're Doing It All Wrong](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/47353a06-ecdf-49ad-a26d-0bd2888fb186.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/47353a06-ecdf-49ad-a26d-0bd2888fb186)   China is facing a horrible deflationary vortex, where tight money leads to company failures, which leads to employee layoffs, which leaves fewer workers with money to buy products, which leads to less demand, which leads to more company failures and more layoffs.  Its an ugly ***feed-forward cycle***, a deflationary vortex. 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