bridge: Multifamily Acquisition and Apartment Financing - Structured Finance - 12/27/13 03:44 AM
Mutlifamily acquisition and apartment financing in a structured financing vehicle is one of the few ways for sponsors and borrowers to get access to high leverage loans .. loans with LTV's above 90% and in some cases as high as 95% LTV.
In one recent example an investor provided the entire capital stack to make a multifamily acquisition financing possible.  The investor (commercial lender) provided the Senior Bridge debt, a Mezzanine Loan for interest reserves and repairs, as well as an equity investment into the LP (Limited Partnership) to complete the required equity investment for the loan portions of the multifamily acquisition … (0 comments)

bridge: Multifamily Purchase Financing - High LTV - Dallas, Houston, Texas - 05/17/13 02:52 AM
Multifamily Purchase Financing with High LTV is available for Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio, Texas as well as other major markets in Texas.  Equity, bridge and mezzanine financing is available for multifamily purchase and redevelopment as well as long-term senior debt.
Multifamily purchase financing using a structured finance strategy that includes equity for the down payment on trades where loans are being assumed or where a combination of equity, bridge and mezzanine financing are used.  Dividend America Commercial Lending in cooperation with their parent company have assembled a group of investors (lenders and equity providers) who are very interested in … (0 comments)

bridge: Structured Finance – For Business and Commercial Real Estate - 03/25/13 03:54 AM
Structured Finance for business used to be fairly easy to achieve but in today’s market, it can be more difficult.  Quite the opposite is true of Structured Finance for Real Estate.   Once a very difficult way to accomplish the financing of typical commercial properties today Structured Financing is the new industry buzz word.
Those seeking Structured Finance for business solutions should first categorize what they are seeking as there are specific approaches that must be used to create success.  For instance, business structure financing vehicles are categorized as DIP or Debtor in Possession, recapitalization, or growth capital.  These structures can come … (0 comments)

bridge: Equity, Bridge & Mezzanine Financing - 105% LTV - 11/16/12 12:05 AM
Equity, Bridge & Mezzanine Financing can be structured in transactions that allow for 105% LTV and in some cases Loan to Values as high as 115%.  How is this possible?  With structured finance strategies, commercial real estate investors can leverage multiple forms of financing in the capital stack to achieve their goals.
Most distressed asset purchases made by commercial real estate professionals require money beyond the purchase price of the property.  When arranged properly, structured financed transactions can supply the money needed for down payment, senior debt, interest reserves during repair and money for the cost of repairs.
When one adds the … (0 comments)

bridge: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act and the Constriction of Capital - 11/15/12 05:43 AM
"The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Pub.L. 111-203, H.R. 4173) was signed into federal law by President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010.[1] Passed as a response to the late-2000s recession, it brought the most significant changes to financial regulation in the United States since the regulatory reform that followed the Great Depression.[2][3][4] It made changes in the American financial regulatory environment that affect all federal financial regulatory agencies and almost every part of the nation's financial services industry.[5][6] 
The opening line of the online Wikipedia.org web site about the Dodd-Frank Law meant to reform Wall Street and banking in general is an ominous reminder that laws can have unintended consequences.  While … (0 comments)

bridge: Equity, Bridge, Mezzanine or JV - The Benefits of Structured Finance - 10/10/12 07:40 AM
Equity, Bridge, Mezzanine or JV (Joint Ventures), what are The Benefits of Structured Finance versus trying to focus on acquiring commercial real estate assets through more traditional funding sources like banks, commercial mortgage lenders, CMBS lenders and insurance conduit lending sources?
The bottom line is the benefits of using equity, bridge, mezzanine or JV (joint venture) funds instead of traditional long-term senior debt are huge.  For starters, conventional or more traditional paths to funding commercial real estate acquisitions have dried up.  The deals that do get funded are the top of the line deals with the A+ players.  That's why it … (0 comments)