Commercial Real Estate Financing
If capital is to real estate as oxygen is to life, then what we do is important. Selecting the proper commercial real estate financing structure is critical to the ultimate financial performance of a real estate asset. We weigh all of our clients' objectives for a particular investment to create the right combination of debt, mezzanine and/or equity financing. When you work with Altman Warwick, you work with commercial real estate financing professionals who expertly handle all aspects of the transaction. From identifying the best lender, negotiating the optimal loan terms and micro-managing the entire closing process, our transaction management is the best in the business. By identifying and resolving deal issues head-on, we not only provide the smoothest and most expedient execution possible, we also eliminate any chance of lender re-trades after loan application. Our lenders respect and appreciate our upfront approach to doing business as much as do our clients.
Commercial Mortgage Loans
We understand financing, our clients understand leverage. Whether utilizing other people's money or expertise, our clients understand the benefits of both. Our success in the commercial mortgage financing industry is derived from the strengths of the four cornerstones our business: relationships, market knowledge, experience and service.
Altman Warwick enjoys long established relationships with insurance companies, savings banks, foreign and domestic commercial banks, private lenders, hedge funds, and pension funds. These relationships continue to inure to the benefit our clients by providing them the most competitive terms and most reliable executions in the market. Many of these relationships are at senior executive levels and span multiple decades.
The market for commercial mortgage financing is imperfect. Dynamic internal forces within lending institutions affect their appetites for certain property types which often create temporary pricing disparities between lenders. Due to the breadth and quality of our lending relationships, along with up-to-the-minute market knowledge of the types of deals our lenders are seeking Altman Warwick has been consistently successful in identifying these disparities and converting them into advantageous borrowing opportunities for our clients.
At Altman Warwick, we are obsessively dedicated to ensuring that our clients obtain the optimal deal that is available in the market for their property. Unlike many other commercial mortgage brokers, we do not believe in the “buckshot” approach to placing commercial loans. Whether marketing a property for sale or financing, there is the point of diminishing returns when over-exposing a property to the marketplace actually impedes the number and quality of offers. When lenders perceive that a transaction is being widely shopped, they tend to not expend as much time and effort towards evaluating the opportunity. Thus, this unrefined approach to placing commercial mortgages threatens to alienate lenders who would otherwise been motivated to make competitive offers.
Consistent with our philosophy of respecting lenders’ time, Altman Warwick employs a thoughtful and systematic approach to placing mortgages. Only after carefully underwriting the transaction and identifying, based upon our market knowledge, the most competitive lenders based upon the specifics of the property and needs of the borrower, do we go, on a select basis, to the market. Based upon our experience and market knowledge, we are usually successful in identifying the optimal loan in our first round of lenders.
Mezzanine Financing and Equity Financing
Mezzanine financing and equity capital can represent the most critical and widely variable components of a project's capitalization. Since construction and permanent lenders have uniformly lowered their leverage levels for most property types in today's marketplace, there is a growing demand for mezzanine and equity products to fill the gap between traditional leverage levels and what is currently available in the senior debt marketplace.
Altman Warwick specializes in identifying the most compatible and accretive mezzanine and equity capital alternatives for any real estate acquisition or recapitalization. Our extensive knowledge of the institutional mezzanine and equity marketplace allows us to marry the optimal structure to each client's unique requirement. With regard to equity financing, Altman Warwick offers experienced real estate investors patient, long-term capital for a myriad of property types including retail, multifamily, hotel, office and industrial. From straight 50-50 joint venture equity to preferred equity financing up to 100% of total project costs, and every permutation in between, Altman Warwick has arranged it all.
Our institutional investors offer much more than the most competitively priced equity capital. In addition to offering very attractive promote and equity-split structures, our equity sources can add value to you in ways most other institutional investors could never match. For example, we have equity investors that can dramatically lower your interest rate and increase your leverage levels on acquisition and construction loans by offering their corporate credit enhancement. For retail projects, our investors have unparalleled relationships and market clout with national and regional retailers which they are glad to bring to bear to help drive tenants to your project. Further, these investors can provide construction management and operational expertise to ensure that your project is built and operated at the most cost efficient and optimal level. Whether for ground-up construction or re-development projects, Altman Warwick can offer an unlimited variety of equity financing structures for projects located throughout the US.
We don't just arrange equity financing, we build partnerships. We are proud of the enduring and thriving ventures that we have created between our clients and equity sources.
For any type of commercial real estate financing that you might require, we handle it all.
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