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.
One top commercial real estate financing name is focused on providing high-leverage refinance, bridge, and construction opportunities to brokers and borrowers
Apartment rent growth in secondary metros has reinvigorated value-add investors.
The middle market is one of the biggest opportunities in the senior housing industry, and conditions may be particularly favorable at the moment for
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.
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.
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.