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Commercial real estate finance:  Financial Fridays October through December 2010  Join us for commercial real estate Financial Fridays, our weekly underwriting training sessions.  We are opening up the laboratory to new prospective staffmembers and those curious to learn about what goes on under the hood of a financial instrument.  University of Financial Technologies takes place at noon on Fridays in our conference room in Santa […]

CMBA 13th annual Western States Commercial Real Estate Finance Conference. This conference is being held at Encore at the Wynn, Las Vegas from September 29, 2010 through October 1, 2010.  With the credit crunch that began in 2007 the commercial lending marketplace has evolved into a leaner group.  Touted as the largest gathering of lenders in the western […]

Commercial Mortgage Broker Financial Compound to attend and participate in the 13th annual Western States Commercial Real Estate Finance Conference.  This conference is being held at Encore at the Wynn, Las Vegas from September 29th through October 1.   Touted as the largest gathering of lenders in the western U.S., this conference represents an important exchange of information […]

Hard Money Commercial Loans:  borrowers with bad credit ok Financial Compound closed a $600,000 hard money commercial loan for the refinance of a primary residence in Los Angeles.  The borrower is a whistleblower who took aim at unscrupulous practices by his employer, a dominant player, and was fired.  As a result, his credit deteriorated and he […]

Commercial Mortgage Lenders: Current Transactions Available for Capital Providers Financial Compound is pleased to announce a new page on our website which presents our current financing requests on behalf of our borrower clients.  The format contains pertinent underwriting and transaction information within a couple of sentences that should allow a commercial mortgage lender or joint venture equitiy provider to […]

Commercial Mortgage Lenders:  Banks making construction loans in Arizona Financial Compound contact in excess of 60 commercial mortgage lenders  in order to obtain a $4.5 million construction loan for a 20% pre-leased retail center in Arizona.  In addition to this feat of finding a construction loan post-credit crunch, the loan represents 90% of construction cost.  The […]

Commercial Mortgage Lenders:  Aggressive Life Insurance Company lending Commercial mortgage broker Financial Compound has arranged a $13 million refinance for this Class A medical office building in southern Califonia near a major hospital.    Loan terms include a 5.80% interest rate; 10 year loan with a 30 year amortization; 60 day free rate lock; No lender […]

As a result of the credit crunch that began in 3rd quarter 2007, finding a commercial real estate loan has become more difficult.  Additionally a number of new or off the radar screen companies have emerged claiming to be lenders when they are in fact not lenders. Sometimes they are brokers pretending to be lenders, […]

Commercial Mortgage Lenders in the Banking Sector Oftentimes when a bank was failing, the FDIC looked for a compatible bank and sold to the acquiring bank most of the assets, and  kept the toxic assets for FDIC to handle on their own.  In 2009 the FDIC revived a technique that had been used a bit […]

Financial Compound closed a $5.5 million construction takeout loan representing 115% of all-in project cost.  This loan was obtained after talking to many commercial mortgage lenders who shied away from making an uncovered takeout loan on this 25,000 square foot high-end strip center in Las Vegas, Nevada containing both national and local tenants.  Financial Compound structured this loan […]

Commercial Mortgage Lenders for condo conversions These are three nearly completed condominium conversions in southern California totaling 225 units.  Financial Compound arranged $9,000,000 of high-leveraged second mortgages with commercial mortgage lenders when the conversions were  75% completed.  The borrower needed to quickly monetize some of the equity in the unsold condo units to meet its liquidity covenants required by another […]

Financial Compound arranged a land loan facility that allowed the borrower to refinance two single family residential communities in different states in the midwest and southwest.   The midwest property has approximately 500 home sites on 700-acres.  Custom homes prices are expected to be valued between $1 and $3 million.  The development includes custom homes and detached cottages.  […]