Real estate debt: archive
Every Real estate debt story in Real Estate, newest first. 453 stories
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Schrager hotel conversion draws $116.5M bridge
Driftwood Capital and Benefit Street Partners replace the 2024 construction facility on the 137-key Sunset Strip property.
Cantor’s $141M Raleigh refi rides one tenant
Underwriting the single-asset CMBS loan is the 100%-leased Bandwidth headquarters, a public-company tenant, and a 43-year arranger relationship.
Smaller September CMBS book, heavier refinancing test
Two inflation prints will price the month's maturing balances, while industrial data separate new issuance from stress already on the books.
Trophy tower clears maturity wall at 120 Park Avenue
A $382.4 million refinancing, 14 percent above the loan it replaces, shows the top tier can step over the wall.
The 2021-22 bridge book drives August's CRE CLO distress spike
A nine-point jump to 28 percent was the worst one-month move of any deal type this year, and the collateral is a few floating-rate bridge and SASB loans from the peak rent-growth era.
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Otay River refi carries a construction bet
The debt fund gets paid from the 30% of Phase IV still unleased.
Torrance refi is office debt's selective clearing trade
A 93 percent leased South Bay tower gets a larger loan while Los Angeles vacancy holds at 25.3 percent.
Football's top 25 campuses carry $6.1B of securitized student-housing debt
Trepp finds nearly twice the debt around AP-ranked schools as around U.S. News national universities, but the per-unit gap is where the two lists really diverge.
Gaia extends Williamsburg loan again, waiting out rates
With loan-to-value below 50 percent and lenders ready, the second renewal is a decision to wait out tomorrow's rates.
Walton Street's Harlow refi is a timed exit bridge
A 98%-leased Tampa-area apartment takes a three-year floating-rate loan that pushes Mast Capital and Rockpoint toward a sale or permanent financing.
Sudberry lands $81.6M construction loan for Otay River Park
A five-year floating-rate facility from a debt fund shows how fully leased product is getting construction-completion money.
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JLL places five-year refi on Extra Space South Portland
Regional-bank money for a stabilized 90,000-sq-ft Extra Space storage asset in Maine shows the refi market is open to proven operators and selective for everyone else.
Namdar's $390M Park Tower loan splits senior and mezz risk
Two floating-rate, interest-only tranches put a 1,049-unit Journal Square tower on a lease-up bet through 2029.
Pinnacle lines up $40.2M for Fort Lauderdale senior housing
Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and six public agencies are underwriting the Fort Lauderdale senior housing deal, where the deepest income band leaves thin coverage for conventional debt.
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Northmarq places $6.1M refi on Van Nuys industrial trio
A ten-year life-company loan against 1955 and 1969 flex buildings is a bet on the infill land beneath them.
URW pays off Westfield Montgomery’s $350 million loan after special servicing
The payoff, a rarity in this extension-heavy cycle, removes the Bethesda mall from special servicing and puts it among the 11 malls URW means to keep.
Smaller September CMBS cohort carries more refinance risk
Trepp's data show more than a quarter of the maturing balance at a debt yield below 6%, with retail replacing office as the most impaired sector.
OZK's $75.5M Merritt 7 loan prices office as housing
A $32 million family-office equity slice is the risk layer behind Bank OZK's office-to-residential construction loan in Norwalk.
C-PACE stands alone on $172.5M Shoma Bay tower
Newmark placed the full construction financing for Shoma Group's North Bay Village condo tower through C-PACE, a stack that carries no bank debt.
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Canyon and J.P. Morgan back Riverside BTR with $74.7M
The senior construction loan prices 180 build-to-rent townhomes at roughly $415,000 per key, and the lenders get paid first only if Riverside lease-up meets the underwriting.
Blue Light bets $62.5M on tenant pipeline
The 32%-leased Bedford manufacturing campus gets debt priced for its tenant pipeline, not its current rent roll.
Gantry rolls $20.7M of maturing multifamily debt into five-year IO
A private owner locks fixed-rate, non-recourse, interest-only money on two apartment assets — and leaves the principal for 2031's lender.
C-PACE stands alone in $172.5 million Shoma Bay stack
A $172.5 million C-PACE construction loan leaves Shoma Bay with no bank debt underneath, making the assessment the sole underwriter of a 333-unit condo job.
CMBS rate dips, but the underlying stack worsens
Office at 12% and a 49-basis-point lodging jump tell the real August story.
KKR refi floats Jamestown's mixed-use plan on stabilized retail
A $72 million floating-rate loan on two Sandy Springs centers buys Jamestown time for its mixed-use plan and leaves KKR the upside.
Avila’s $305M repeat loan targets 3,000 California lots
The second facility for the same master-planned community developer shows that land finance is a relationship business priced on the entitlement calendar.
Tishman's $340M Franklin refi prices leased trophy
A $340 million single-asset CMBS loan against The Franklin prices the property as a leased trophy — and sets its next test on the floating curve.
Slate's Upland Park roll turns construction risk into lease-up
The $245 million permanent loan on Terra's first phase is a same-lender bet on lease-up; the second phase, expected later this year, will show whether that patience extends to new construction.
Debt case strengthens as equity's leverage fades
Twenty years of Cambridge data show opportunistic equity's outsize returns relied on cheap leverage, while CRE debt produced a steadier 9–10% across interest-rate environments — a spread that matters as $3 trillion of loans come due.
Gatsby Florida lands $118.6M loan for Palm Beach Gardens tower
The three-year term leaves the 2028 delivery on a short lease-up clock, with maturity landing in 2029.
Multifamily takes over the CMBS modification book
Forbearance and combination modifications account for more than a third of modified balance as lenders trade something for cleaner credit.
APG's $400 million MaxCap mandate is patient capital
The discretionary mandate extends a seven-year partnership and puts first-mortgage capital at the front of the refinancing wall.
SASB's dominance redefines the CMBS rebound
Trepp sees 2026 issuance near $140 billion, but the single-asset mix cuts against a broad credit recovery.
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Slate doubles down on Terra with $245M permanent loan
The New York lender that took construction risk is now underwriting lease-up on a county ground lease, a patient-capital answer to the refinancing wall.
CrossHarbor funds CedarSt’s by-right North Park build with $80M
The three-year, floating-rate loan prices the San Diego project at roughly $406,000 a key and underwrites a ministerial permit as much as the building.
Dwight Mortgage Trust writes a $70m loan on a renovated Newark tower
The non-recourse, interest-only loan on Cosmo 440 shows lenders pricing stabilized cash flow on renovated multifamily as the maturity wall is financed rather than foreclosed.
Private credit replaces construction loan at Glenview's Cerca
Knighthead's $32 million loan pays off preferred equity and rolls up construction debt, a sign the multifamily maturity wall is being financed rather than foreclosed.
A $50M Philadelphia refi that prices the vacancy
Citadel Credit Union's refinancing of 2000 Market Street pre-funds leasing on a tower bought at a 64 percent discount.
WinnCompanies closes financing on 290-unit affordable rehab
The Chicopee deal renews expiring affordability protections and prices the construction risk at roughly $143,000 a door.
Cirrus funds a spec Palm Beach Gardens tower and a three-year lease-up clock
The $118.6 million construction loan leaves Gatsby Florida a year or less between completion and maturity on an unleased 200,000-square-foot office.