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What Is a CMBS Loan – and How Does It Compare to Private Bridge Financing?
Commercial real estate owners generally have two paths to permanent financing: agency loans (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD) for qualifying multifamily properties, and CMBS loans for most other commercial property types. Both work well for stabilized, income-producing assets. Neither works for a property that isn’t there yet — mid-renovation, mid-lease-up, or otherwise not ready to […]
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What Is Net Operating Income (NOI) — and Why Every Real Estate Lender Cares About It
Before a private lender approves a loan on an income-producing property, one number matters more than the purchase price, the cap rate, or the rent roll on their own. Those are inputs. Net Operating Income is the output — the number lenders actually underwrite. Understanding NOI is the foundation for understanding how commercial real estate […]
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Yield vs. Total Return in Private Credit: What It Means
When a private lending fund advertises a 9% return, what does that number actually promise? Is it what you earn every year? Cash in your account, or income the fund merely accrued? Before fees or after them? Terms like yield, total return, net IRR, and net distributable income all mean specific, different things — and […]
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Preferred Equity vs. Mezzanine Debt: What’s the Real Difference for Real Estate Investors?
Preferred equity and mezzanine debt both sit in the middle of a real estate deal’s capital stack, and on paper they can look almost the same: both get paid before common equity, both offer higher yields than a senior loan, and both get marketed as ways to earn “debt-like” income with “equity-like” upside. The resemblance […]
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What Is a Loan Committee — and How Does It Protect Private Lending Fund Investors?
Who approves a loan before your capital is committed to it? In the best-run private lending funds, the answer isn’t one person — it’s a structured process involving multiple reviewers with defined criteria and documented decisions. The loan committee is the governance mechanism that prevents individual blind spots, overconfidence, and conflicts of interest from entering […]
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