Company: ADAMM
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001273685-25-000088
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Company: ADAMAS TRUST, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 2025. RealPage noted that, in general, markets located in the South and West of the U.S. experienced the greatest growth in apartment supply in recent years and the deepest rent cuts in the third quarter of 2025 and the past year. Further, Zillow Research forecasts that relatively slower rent growth for both single-family and multi-family rental housing is expected to continue through the end of the year. Weakening multi-family housing fundamentals, including, among other things, increasing supply of apartments and declining rents in the markets or submarkets in which we invest, increasing interest rates, widening capitalization rates and reduced liquidity for owners of multi-family properties, may cause our operating partners to fail to meet their obligations to us and/or contribute to reduced cash flows from and/or valuation declines for multi-family properties, and in turn, many of the multi-family investments that we own.

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Credit Spreads. Investment grade and high-yield credit spreads both tightened over the course of the third quarter of 2025 with investment grade spreads finishing 10 basis points lower than the start of the third quarter of 2025 and high-yield spreads finishing 16 basis points lower than the start of the first quarter of 2025. Tightening credit spreads generally increase the value of many of our credit sensitive assets, while widening credit spreads tend to have a negative impact on the value of many of our credit sensitive assets.

Financing Markets. From June 2022 until the end of August 2024, the Treasury curve inverted with short term yields greater than long term yields, which was the longest inverted Treasury curve on record. Inversions and subsequent normalizations of this spread are generally considered to be indicators of a recession in the near term, although some market commentators have cautioned against August 2024’s uninversion being such an indicator. On September 30, 2025, the spread between the 2-Year U.S. Treasury yield and the 10-Year U.S. Treasury yield closed at 56 basis points, as compared to a 33 basis point spread on December 31, 2024. This spread is important as it is indicative of opportunities for investing in levered assets. Increases in interest rates raise the costs of many of our liabilities, while overall interest rate volatility generally increases the costs of hedging and may place downward pressure on some of our strategies.

Monetary Policy and Recent Regulatory Developments. The Federal Reserve took a number of actions to stabilize markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. From March 2020 until March