Alex Cohen | Source | CEO at Liberty SBF
Alex Cohen
Alex Cohen is the CEO of Liberty SBF, a national commercial real estate financing company with a special expertise in SBA lending, including purchase, refinance and interim 504 loans for small business owners.
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Strong fundamentals for commercial real estate, new & enhanced loan products emerge
One top commercial real estate financing name is focused on providing high-leverage refinance, bridge, and construction opportunities to brokers and borrowers
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Apartment rent growth in secondary metros has reinvigorated value-add investors.
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‘Opportunity of a Lifetime’: Conditions Favorable for Penciling Out Middle-Market Senior Living - Senior Housing News
The middle market is one of the biggest opportunities in the senior housing industry, and conditions may be particularly favorable at the moment for
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There are better opportunities to acquire properties at a lower basis, which makes executing on those types of business plans more realistic and less risky.
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Rent growth has supported transitional business plans where sponsors are buying properties with the idea of investing additional capital into those properties or executing a rental increase plan. We are seeing a lot of bridge demand from borrowers that are executing on those types of business plans.
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This is a really big deal. Any borrower in that high leverage (SBA 7a) loan should be thinking of refinancing, because theoretically there should be very little out-of-pocket expense. Most of the fees can be capitalized into the new loan.
