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While new technology is completely changing the face of the residential mortgage market, the same story isn’t happening in the commercial mortgage market. As it stands, mortgage lenders are almost being forced to use more technology in order to compete in the market. Kelly Adkisson, a managing director at Accenture Credit Services, recently explained in an […]

While Financial Compound has completed loan modifications and note sales with many types of commercial mortgage lenders, we have been involved in only a precious few with banks holding recourse commercial real estate loans subject to a loss share agreement with the FDIC.  Since 2009 the successor bank purchases all of the failed bank’s assets, and enters into a loss share […]

Financial Compound arranged two acquisition loans with 2 different commercial mortgage lenders totaling $15,000,000 for the purchase of two adjacent suburban midrise office buildings in North Carolina built in the 1980s.  Building A is 95% occupied, and building B 40% occupied.  Financial Compound surveyed the commercial real estate capital markets and recommended as the optimal financial structure, a fixed […]

Financial Compound arranged a $28 million credit facility for single family tax liens in the Northeast.  Financial Compound, with the help of our borrower, an experienced operator in the tax lien industry, demonstrated the low level of risk (15% LTV) for this credit.  Other terms included a cutting edge interest rate, interest only, close to 100% LTC, […]

$19 million in land acquisition financing (95% of all-in-cost) was provided for this 1,600 acre semi-entitled residential single family lot land assemblage, which is part of a larger, 3,000 lot SFR master planned community.  To-date, about 500 lots have been built. The community includes two new 18-hole championship golf courses.  The loan proceeds funded 95% […]

Financial Compound obtained a $1.6 million construction loan for an express car wash in Los Angeles.  After the borrower’s application with a conventional lender fell through, Commercial Mortgage Broker Financial Compound was able to quickly secure a private money lender.  The quick closing allowed the borrower to maintain its construction schedule as the private money […]

Debt yield, the ratio between property NOI and loan amount, has become a primary underwriting characteristic for commercial mortgage lenders.  Interestingly, debt yield does not take amortization into account, which plays a factor in the borrower’s ability to make mortgage payments.  For example, a property with $900,000 NOI and a $10 million loan request with […]

Currently Financial Compound is a leading commercial mortgage broker closing structured apartment loans. Financial Compound is able to obtain cutting edge financing terms for apartments loans that many DUS FNMA and Freddie Mac lenders will not make.  With interest rates between 5% and 7% fixed for ten years and loan to value up to 80%, […]

$2,850,000 additional funding.  A longstanding client approached us with a few different projects wondering the best way to achieve the borrower’s ends of obtaining cash-out refinance proceeds. Commercial Mortgage Broker Financial Compound worked with the borrower and lender and determined that an additional funding on a loan we had completed 2 years ago was the […]

For a portion of commercial mortgage broker business flow, we can be thought of as the Sanford and Son of the mortgage brokerage industry.  We finance many deals that others have left for trash and deemed unfinanceable, at a clip of approximately $100 million per year.   Applying a Keynesian multiplier to this volume of closing […]

Commercial Mortgage Loan refinance was arranged by Financial Compound for the $7.3 million refinance of a golf course located in southern California.  With a property cash flow of $450,000 annually, this refinance is worth bragging about whether or not it took place during the credit crunch, which it did.  The lender required a couple of mild […]