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A Guide to Real Estate Joint Ventures
Most real estate investors begin on their own. However, due to financial, experience, and time limitations, many investors look to join forces, especially in the commercial real estate world. While several structures exist to combine your real estate efforts, joint...
Real Estate Private Equity Explained
Commercial real estate deals typically require multiple financing sources. Within the broad debt and equity categories, commercial deals include a variety of sub-categories, as well. Known as the “capital stack,” these different financing sources allow...
What is Commercial Real Estate Preferred Equity?
Investing in commercial real estate requires a significant amount of capital. Individual investors can typically raise enough cash for a residential property deal. But, commercial property deals often require multiple investors - and classes of investors - pooling...
Non-Bankable Commercial Real Estate Loan Options
When most real estate investors want to borrow money, they go to a bank. However, due to a variety of reasons, many commercial real estate investors cannot secure bank loans. Instead, these individuals need to find alternative sources of debt financing, options...
Joint Ventures in Commercial Real Estate
Joint Venture Types in Commercial Real Estate When real estate developers find promising deals, they often don’t have the capital necessary to execute. As a result, these developers turn to outside investors to raise the required funds, frequently through a...
Why Preferred Equity is a Popular Option for Institutional Investors
Why Preferred Equity is a Popular Option for Institutional Investors Investors in commercial real estate balance two competing items: yield and risk. That is, investors seek to find a balance between the returns a deal will generate and the various risks associated...
Participating Preferred Equity Overview
Commercial real estate deals typically include far more financing sources than residential. Whereas the latter relies on a long-term mortgage (debt) and owner down payment (equity), commercial deals regularly combine a variety of debt and equity sources. Commercial...
Commercial Real Estate Hard Money Loans
A variety of financing options exist for commercial real estate - both debt and equity. All of these options come with their own pros and cons, meaning some financing sources make more or less sense, depending on the specific deal. For developers and investors,...
Commercial Real Esate Mezzanine loans
In residential real estate, homeowners typically rely on two types of financing. On the equity side, owners contribute their own capital for a down payment. On the debt side, they use some sort of permanent mortgage (e.g. conventional, FHA, VA, etc.). With...
Best Type of Commercial Real Estate Financing in an Inflationary Environment
To address rampant inflation, commercial real estate investors frequently ask about effective financing strategies. That is, as costs and interest rates rise, what’s the best way to structure a deal’s financing? In this article, we’ll address these items and...
Commercial Real Estate Bridge Loans
Real estate investors use two primary forms of financing: equity (i.e. contributed capital) and senior debt (i.e. a long-term permanent mortgage). However, a variety of other financing options exist. Each of these financing sources has its unique advantages and...
Key Principal in a Real Estate Syndication: Why You Might Want to be One
Real estate syndications offer investors a way to pool funds in pursuit of deals, opening opportunities not available to individuals. But, acting as the key principal in a syndication deal - while requiring more involvement - also has some significant benefits. As...
Cap Rates and Inflation
In today’s economy, investors cannot ignore inflation. Between its direct effects on costs and indirect effects on interest rates, inflation seeps into every aspect of the financial markets. For real estate investors, this reality begs the question: how do cap...
How to Evaluate a Multifamily Syndication
At some point, many single-family home investors decide to make the jump into multifamily properties. While a logical next step, buying an apartment building requires far more capital than a townhouse. Recognizing these cash requirements, many multifamily investors...
How to Evaluate a Real Estate Syndication
Real estate syndications offer a way to invest in a deal larger than you could make happen on your own. By pooling funds, syndications allow multiple investors to work together in pursuit of a single project. But, like all deals, syndications have risks. Before...
How to Read a Multifamily Investment Pro Forma
To analyze a real estate deal, investors need to rely on more than just “instinct.” That is, investing in a deal simply because it feels good doesn’t make much sense. Instead, commercial real estate investors use a product known as a pro forma to project future...
Real Estate Syndication: How to Read a PPM
If you want to buy a publicly-traded stock, you can review its prospectus, the SEC-mandated report outlining the details of that offering. But, the SEC doesn’t require these reports for privately-offered real estate syndications. Instead, syndications include a...
Joint Venture Equity for Multifamily
In addition to finding and underwriting deals, real estate developers spend a significant amount of their time raising capital for projects. Due to the size of most commercial real estate deals, developers rarely have the cash to cover all of a project’s equity...
How to Earn Passive Income from Real Estate
Real Estate Passive Income You can make passive income from real estate in various ways. Choices range from low-cost basic investments to more involved methods that require greater amounts of time and effort. Whatever your lifestyle and personal financial situation...
How to Find a Real Estate Syndication to Invest In
Commercial real estate deals typically require far more capital than residential investments. Accordingly, most investors don’t have the cash to cover 100 percent of a deal’s equity requirements. Instead, commercial investors often pool their funds in a real estate...
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