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Opportunity in the Apartment Market for Family Offices

I like Antonio’s article and hope that more family offices invest in multifamily assets. We’ve always enjoyed finding commercial real estate financing for family offices, but the challenge has been the locations. Antonio suggests that they should look in secondary and tertiary markets but what we’ve found is that the family offices tend to start off investing in locations near their home base with a GP partner before heading into a smaller market which makes it more difficult. We’d love to see more commercial real estate news saying that family offices are pouring into the space but only time will tell if they want to pick up multifamily assets and commercial building loans in markets they don’t know well.
– Adam Horowitz, Principal of Lever Capital Partners and President of the Real Estate Capital Alliance

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Student Housing Trends in 2018

As I speak with some of our Student Housing clients we’re seeing many of the changes that Elliot mentions, particularly in the way they market to perspective tenants. In terms of getting a commercial real estate mortgage from the agencies, that’s still the goal for most borrowers unless there’s a heavy lift on the rehab site in which case different types of capital are needed. As commercial real estate mortgage interest rates rise I think we’ll see some of the weaker borrowers in this space have a harder time making deals pencil out and bigger players like Vesper taking down these assets. The more things change the more they stay the same and Cash is still King isn’t really commercial real estate news to anyone in the know.

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

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