$15,250,000 Non-Recourse, Cash-Out Bridge Financing for a 200-Unit Multifamily Property in a Tertiary Market; 80% LTC at 375 over 1-Month Libor; Rexburg, ID

Transaction Description:

George Smith Partners successfully placed $21,000,000 in bridge financing for a 111-unit apartment community in St. Louis, Missouri that retired a high-leverage construction loan, funded a lease-up and operating reserve, converted from a recourse to non-recourse structure, materially lowered the Borrower’s cost of capital, and provided enough proceeds at close (100% of loan proceeds were released upon loan closing) to cash out 105% of the Borrower’s cost basis, although the Property was less than 10% occupied. The eighteen-month loan term provides the Borrower with time to stabilize and season the asset prior to either selling or refinancing it with long-term permanent debt in today’s low interest rate environment. GSP leveraged its expertise of the St. Louis market, long-standing lender relationships, and capital markets creativity to achieve the Borrower’s goals, which was primarily the maximum return of capital.

Transaction Description:

George Smith Partners arranged $39,500,000 in non-recourse financing for the acquisition of a vacant 10-story office building, currently mid-conversion to a 148-unit, Class-A multifamily building. The Property is the only high-rise apartment building in Downtown Santa Ana. The financing allows the Sponsor to complete the conversion, stabilize the Property, and refinance into long-term permanent debt. While the apartment market is very strong in Downtown Santa Ana, there are no other high-rise apartment buildings and no direct comparable properties. Not only did the Lender have to get comfortable with the construction completion, they also had to get comfortable with a new product type in this market.

GSP identified a local lender that not only understood the market and demand for multifamily but was comfortable with the Sponsor’s ability to step-in and complete the conversion.

Transaction Description:

George Smith Partners secured a $15,500,000 bridge loan for three newly constructed, pre-Certificate of Occupancy multifamily assets located in Los Angeles, CA. The non-recourse loan provided significant cash-out proceeds to the sponsor, refinanced outstanding construction debt and capitalized construction completion costs. The loan is sized at 70% LTC on a 4.90% fixed rate, non-recourse, 12-month term. The loan did not require an interest reserve or capitalized carrying costs.

The loan is secured by three new construction multifamily assets in the Koreatown and Eagle Rock submarkets of Los Angeles, totaling 57 units, in various stages of completion. All will be complete by Q1 2021, with lease up occurring throughout the balance of 2021. Given COVID related delays and slower-than-anticipated leasing velocity, GSP was able to identify a lender comfortable with the high quality, new construction product, and the long-term stability of these submarkets. The loan closed three weeks from term sheet execution.

Transaction Description:

George Smith Partners arranged $4,700,000 in non-recourse, bridge financing for an 85% complete, 13-unit apartment project in the Pico-Robertson area of Los Angeles, CA. Despite marketing this deal as a construction take-out loan for an 85% complete project during the global pandemic, GSP successfully engaged a debt fund to take out the existing construction loan with additional funds to complete construction. The non-recourse bridge facility was priced at an interest-only rate of 5.90% with a 12-month term plus a 12-month extension option. Thanks to GSP’s long-standing relationship with this debt fund, we were able to close this transaction in just 8 business days.

Transaction Description:

George Smith Partners arranged $62,750,000 in non-recourse, bridge financing on a new construction, mixed-use property with 253 apartment units above 10,000 SF of retail in Longmont, CO—approximately 20 minutes northeast of Boulder. Despite delivering in the early stages of a global pandemic and statewide stay-at-home order, the building has maintained relatively robust lease-up velocity through unconventional marketing methods such as virtual touring. Amid such unprecedented market uncertainty, GSP successfully engaged a newly established debt fund to facilitate a cash-neutral, non-recourse refinance of the project’s maturing high-leverage construction debt, which could not be extended. The 75% loan-to-value bridge facility is priced at L+500 with a 36-month term and two 12-month extension options.