Issuance of commercial real estate Collateralized Loan Obligations (CRE-CLOs) has grown significantly in 2018. KKR is the latest private equity firm to tap the commercial real estate securitization market for short-term bridge loans. Many of the bridge loans that ValueXpress originates end up in … [Read more...]

Recently ValueXpress exhibited at the Asian American Hotel Owners (AAHOA) Northeast – Syracuse Regional Trade Show in Syracuse, New York. The event provided the ability for ValueXpress to speak one-on-one with hotel owners regarding their upcoming financing needs. Dennis Suh at the ValueXpress booth … [Read more...]

ValueXpress has completed over 200 hotel loan closings, more than 80% of which are fixed-rate, non-recourse CMBS conduit loans. To be most efficient, ValueXpress has developed a simple prequalification decision tree to determine if a hotel qualifies for a CMBS conduit loan. Step 1: Is the hotel … [Read more...]

In addition to new borrowers, ValueXpress will be assisting existing CMBS borrowers to refinance loans set to mature in 2019. Approximately 175 performing CMBS conduit loans were closed after 2010 that provided for 5- and 7-year loan terms that will be maturing in 2019. ValueXpress searched its CMBS … [Read more...]

It has been reported that Amazon has signed a letter of intent to occupy 1.0 million square feet in the 1.4-million-square-foot One Court Square office building in Long Island City, Queens. The lease would provide a sigh of relief for CMBS investors and perhaps a bonanza in terms of increased … [Read more...]

One of the primary benefits of CMBS conduit loans is that they are non-recourse. As such, the borrower and guarantor (typically an individual who owns or controls the majority of the borrowing entity) are not personally liable for repayment of the loan in the event of default and foreclosure. The … [Read more...]

While all CMBS loans are non-recourse, there is a caveat. Nearly all non-recourse commercial real estate loans have provisions whereby if the individual(s) who own the property (known as the “sponsors”) commit what is referred to in the lending industry as “bad person acts,” then the loan can be … [Read more...]

ValueXpress is working on a CMBS conduit loan transaction secured by a multi-tenant industrial park in suburban Denver, Colorado. As with all our loan transactions, ValueXpress surveys the local market for the real estate asset class that is being financed to build a case for tenant demand for the … [Read more...]