Market-rate, affordable and workforce apartments, plus business-purpose residential. Sized against the constraint that governs, and placed with agency, bank, life company or CMBS depending on which one wins.
9% credit equity covers roughly of total development cost; 4% covers only , with the remainder filled by soft debt, HOME, AHP and deferred developer fee, usually four to five sources. Credit pricing runs roughly per dollar of tax credit as of (). An unresolved gap-financing line is not a deal.
Business-purpose and investor properties only; we do not arrange consumer mortgages or owner-occupied home loans.
Perm at 35-45% of cost isn't low leverage, it's what's left after tax-credit equity and soft debt fill the rest of the stack. Sponsors who treat it as a leverage problem, pushing to raise the senior amount, are solving the wrong thing. The real work is closing the gap between what the senior will fund and what the project costs, and that gap is filled by four or five separate sources, not one bigger loan.
A 9% credit deal and a 4% bond deal look nothing alike once you net out the equity: 9% can cover of cost and sometimes needs no soft debt at all; 4% covers only and requires a fundamentally different, more heavily layered stack. An unresolved gap-financing line is not a deal, no matter how strong the senior terms look.
The LTV ceiling reads like the constraint, but at today's rates coverage usually binds first, and in low cap rate markets a 7 to 8% debt yield floor can bind before LTV does, because the LTV math would support more proceeds than the lender's minimum yield allows. Knowing which one governs before you go to market changes what you tell a sponsor to expect.
The sizer below shows which test set the loan amount, not only the amount.
DSCR rental, fix & flip and spec build sit inside one asset class, residential 1-4 units, which is not multi-family, but each is governed by a different test. DSCR rental clears on rent-to-PITIA with no income documentation at all; fix & flip clears on after-repair value, a forward-looking number a borrower's own numbers usually overstate; spec build clears on sell-out and release pricing, closer to a development underwrite than a rental one.
Sponsors who've only done one of these three bring the wrong file to the wrong conversation more often than any other asset class we see.
Enter the numbers and see what governs proceeds. When it looks right, hand it to the desk with the figures already filled in.
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