The rent roll and operating statements standards we’ve been working on for the past six months are finished. They are posted on MISMO’s Commercial Mortgage Specifications page. Now it’s time to promote the benefits of compliance to ensure widespread industry adoption.
I will be at the CMSA Conference next week in Washington, DC and the MBA CREF Conference in Las Vegas in early February drumming up support. If not now, when?
Keep reading for the MISMO press release.
Commercial MISMO Releases Standards For Rent Roll and Operating Statements
RESTON, VA, January 12, 2010 – The Mortgage Industry Standards and Maintenance Organization (MISMO) announces the release of two new commercial real estate XML standards for the exchange of financial data. The Rent Roll and Operating Statement Version 2.0.1 specifications began their 30 day IPR Disclosure period on January 6, 2010. These standards provide a normalized way for borrowers, servicers, lenders, investors, and regulators to share critical financial information on all types of commercial real estate collateral.
Currently, most participants in commercial real estate finance are unable to access critical financial data contained in rent rolls and operating statements in a timely and useable format to perform easy and accurate valuations of the underlying collateral. These new standards provide the road map to move and access this data in XML format from one system to another and from one company to another. MISMO believes adoption of these standards will serve at least two immediate needs:
Internal Risk Management: Within financial organizations, the need to report on asset valuation for all business lines has increased. For commercial real estate, the most important data elements needed to perform accurate asset valuations are found on rent rolls and operating statements. Normalizing the data structure for such critical information allows valuation models to work. These standards provide that road map.
External Reporting Transparency: Increased transparency in securitized finance is generally supported by both industry players and regulators alike. The concept that rating agencies and investors should have access to enough information to value the underlying assets in any securitization is common sense and a key component of regulatory reform that enjoys bipartisan congressional support. These standards provide a foundation for parties that are required to report to investors, rating agencies or regulators on their commercial real estate portfolios.
About MISMO
The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO), a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and managed by MERSCORP, Inc., is the leading technology standards development body for both the Residential and Commercial industry segments. MISMO promotes data consistency throughout the broader industry, reduces processing costs, increases transparency, and boosts investor confidence in mortgages as an asset class, while passing cost savings on to the consumer. More information on MISMO can be found at www.mismo.org.
FOR QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT
Gloria Zimmer
800-646-6377
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Jim Flaherty is CEO of CMBS.com and the creator of the Backshop loan origination system. He is a trained credit professional with experience installing enterprise underwriting systems for commercial real estate lenders, rating agencies and investors.
The MISMO rent roll and operating statement committee which I co-chair finished its work on the XML schema today (thanks to all committee members!).
The schema we propose is capable of handling all common data templates for both Rent Rolls and Operating Statements. The schema will be made public around the first of the year for its 30 day Intellectual Property Review period and then, hopefully, be ready for finalization by the MBA CREF Conference in early February.
MISMO’s goals for 2010 include promoting the adoption of these standards as an essential part of improving risk management, investor reporting, and compliance with the new transparency requirements of the pending financial reform legislation.
Some color on the two schemas:
Rent Rolls
The biggest concept of the rent roll schema is Rent Roll Template Type. We came up with four templates that are commonly used to handle commercial properties, multi-unit properties (in both summary and detail mode), hotel properties and healthcare. The data schema will support all the essential data elements for the major property types. Specifically: retail, office, industrial, apartments, mobile homes, self storage, hotels, assisted living and skilled nursing properties are covered.
Operating Statements
The biggest concept in the Operating Statements schema is also the concept of template types. Unlike the four templates that were needed for rent rolls, we have already needed 10 templates for op statements. The goal is to have an all-encompassing list of NOI categories (the current list has 234 items) and then provide templates that can roll up by user group. Of the 10 we have already planned for, we have eight to support the CMSA’s IRP templates, and we plan to have one each for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Unlike the data for rent rolls, the list of NOI categories is endless so we went with a roll up approach with easy template expansion capabilities.
I’ll post the final package on this site when it is ready.
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Jim Flaherty is CEO of CMBS.com and the creator of the Backshop loan origination system. He is a trained credit professional with experience installing enterprise underwriting systems for commercial real estate lenders, rating agencies and investors.
I spent Thanksgiving in New York City this year with my family.
My kids had never been to NYC so we sampled some of the great things The City has to offer including the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, the museums and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
A week like that certainly makes you thankful.
View from the top of the Empire State Building.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade > Snoopy
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade > Sponge Bob
Statue of Liberty
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Jim Flaherty is CEO of CMBS.com and the creator of the Backshop loan origination system. He is a trained credit professional with experience installing enterprise underwriting systems for commercial real estate lenders, rating agencies and investors.
Standards Released!
/0 Comments/in Industry news, Industry standards /by jimflahertyThe rent roll and operating statements standards we’ve been working on for the past six months are finished. They are posted on MISMO’s Commercial Mortgage Specifications page. Now it’s time to promote the benefits of compliance to ensure widespread industry adoption.
I will be at the CMSA Conference next week in Washington, DC and the MBA CREF Conference in Las Vegas in early February drumming up support. If not now, when?
Keep reading for the MISMO press release.
Commercial MISMO Releases Standards For Rent Roll and Operating Statements
RESTON, VA, January 12, 2010 – The Mortgage Industry Standards and Maintenance Organization (MISMO) announces the release of two new commercial real estate XML standards for the exchange of financial data. The Rent Roll and Operating Statement Version 2.0.1 specifications began their 30 day IPR Disclosure period on January 6, 2010. These standards provide a normalized way for borrowers, servicers, lenders, investors, and regulators to share critical financial information on all types of commercial real estate collateral.
Currently, most participants in commercial real estate finance are unable to access critical financial data contained in rent rolls and operating statements in a timely and useable format to perform easy and accurate valuations of the underlying collateral. These new standards provide the road map to move and access this data in XML format from one system to another and from one company to another. MISMO believes adoption of these standards will serve at least two immediate needs:
Internal Risk Management: Within financial organizations, the need to report on asset valuation for all business lines has increased. For commercial real estate, the most important data elements needed to perform accurate asset valuations are found on rent rolls and operating statements. Normalizing the data structure for such critical information allows valuation models to work. These standards provide that road map.
External Reporting Transparency: Increased transparency in securitized finance is generally supported by both industry players and regulators alike. The concept that rating agencies and investors should have access to enough information to value the underlying assets in any securitization is common sense and a key component of regulatory reform that enjoys bipartisan congressional support. These standards provide a foundation for parties that are required to report to investors, rating agencies or regulators on their commercial real estate portfolios.
About MISMO
The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO), a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and managed by MERSCORP, Inc., is the leading technology standards development body for both the Residential and Commercial industry segments. MISMO promotes data consistency throughout the broader industry, reduces processing costs, increases transparency, and boosts investor confidence in mortgages as an asset class, while passing cost savings on to the consumer. More information on MISMO can be found at www.mismo.org.
FOR QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT
Gloria Zimmer
800-646-6377
— — —
Jim Flaherty is CEO of CMBS.com and the creator of the Backshop loan origination system. He is a trained credit professional with experience installing enterprise underwriting systems for commercial real estate lenders, rating agencies and investors.
www.cmbs.com
www.backshop.com
Standards Update
/0 Comments/in Industry standards /by jimflahertyThe MISMO rent roll and operating statement committee which I co-chair finished its work on the XML schema today (thanks to all committee members!).
The schema we propose is capable of handling all common data templates for both Rent Rolls and Operating Statements. The schema will be made public around the first of the year for its 30 day Intellectual Property Review period and then, hopefully, be ready for finalization by the MBA CREF Conference in early February.
MISMO’s goals for 2010 include promoting the adoption of these standards as an essential part of improving risk management, investor reporting, and compliance with the new transparency requirements of the pending financial reform legislation.
Some color on the two schemas:
Rent Rolls
The biggest concept of the rent roll schema is Rent Roll Template Type. We came up with four templates that are commonly used to handle commercial properties, multi-unit properties (in both summary and detail mode), hotel properties and healthcare. The data schema will support all the essential data elements for the major property types. Specifically: retail, office, industrial, apartments, mobile homes, self storage, hotels, assisted living and skilled nursing properties are covered.
Operating Statements
The biggest concept in the Operating Statements schema is also the concept of template types. Unlike the four templates that were needed for rent rolls, we have already needed 10 templates for op statements. The goal is to have an all-encompassing list of NOI categories (the current list has 234 items) and then provide templates that can roll up by user group. Of the 10 we have already planned for, we have eight to support the CMSA’s IRP templates, and we plan to have one each for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Unlike the data for rent rolls, the list of NOI categories is endless so we went with a roll up approach with easy template expansion capabilities.
I’ll post the final package on this site when it is ready.
— — —
Jim Flaherty is CEO of CMBS.com and the creator of the Backshop loan origination system. He is a trained credit professional with experience installing enterprise underwriting systems for commercial real estate lenders, rating agencies and investors.
www.cmbs.com
www.backshop.com
Thanksgiving 2009
/0 Comments/in Company history /by jimflahertyI spent Thanksgiving in New York City this year with my family.
My kids had never been to NYC so we sampled some of the great things The City has to offer including the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, the museums and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
A week like that certainly makes you thankful.
View from the top of the Empire State Building.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade > Snoopy
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade > Sponge Bob
Statue of Liberty
— — —
Jim Flaherty is CEO of CMBS.com and the creator of the Backshop loan origination system. He is a trained credit professional with experience installing enterprise underwriting systems for commercial real estate lenders, rating agencies and investors.
www.cmbs.com
www.backshop.com