Monthly Archives: September 2018

The End of Office Space as We Know It

Our team at Lever Capital Partners has been providing commercial real estate financing for a few clients in the co-working space. As the average interest rate for commercial real estate loans keeps creeping up, our office owners are looking for additional ways to boost their NOI. Over the last couple of years we’ve been hired by firms that are trying to emulate WeWork in markets where they already have a strong office presence. The ability to get a commercial building loan is getting easier as WeWork co-working expands into smaller markets.

– Adam Horowitz, Principal of Lever Capital Partners and President of the Real Estate Capital Alliance

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Smaller Metros in the West are Emerging

Our team at Lever Capital Partners has noticed similar trends as we started seeing more smaller metro deals come across our desk the last few years. It’s still hard convincing non bank commercial real estate lenders to do business in many of these markets, despite showing the data that supports commercial real estate financing in those areas. The more cre news similar to this article the better support we’ll have in the future when working on deals in this sector.

– Adam Horowitz, Principal of Lever Capital Partners and President of the Real Estate Capital Alliance

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Shift Towards Zero Parking in the Multifamily Sector

Parking requirements are changing but not as fast as many of us would like. Speaking of things moving slowly, the commercial real estate financing world moves even slower which means nobody has to do anything today. Moving towards zero parking will be more relevant in cities like San Francisco and other major markets. If for example you’re looking for commercial real estate loans in Las Vegas for a multifamily project this will be less of an issue. When it comes to the lending side, I think that non bank commercial real estate lenders will change their parameters more quickly than traditional banks.

-Adam Horowitz, Principal of Lever Capital Partners and President of the Real Estate Capital Alliance

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Socially Responsible Investing in the Multifamily Sector

I love the positive aspects of this article as they pertain to both my business and personal interests. That fact that “Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” is music to my ears. When it comes to commercial real estate lending, we are very selective about who we do business with. The commercial real estate financing world has it’s share of bad characters and we learned a long time ago that life is too short to work with such people. We look for clients that are providing something of value to the community whether it be commercial or multifamily residential development. I look forward to this trend continuing and reading more commercial real estate news with similar stories.

– Adam Horowitz, Principal of Lever Capital Partners and President of the Real Estate Capital Alliance

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