Strategies for Portfolio Optimization Investors can optimize their real estate portfolios by strategically blending different types of financial instruments, including senior debt, mezzanine financing, and equity. Senior debt, being the most secure form of investment,...
Gone are the days when a small business owner could walk down to their local bank, have a lovely chat with their banker, and walk away with a loan to keep their business afloat. For many of us, those days never existed. The banks we’re familiar with are large...
When bridge financing comes up in conversation, many business owners and managers think of short-term real estate funding. Bridge loans are popular with CRE investors because they support a quick close on property while awaiting traditional financing to come through....
The Federal Reserve, in an effort to stave off runaway inflation, bumped the Prime Rate up four times in 2023 and a whopping seven times in 2022. As of this writing, the Prime Rate is 8.5%. If you’ve been in the market for a business loan, you might be a bit worried....
As a wave of new technology transforms the way the world does business, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Even businesses that rely on age-old craftsmanship and handworked detail find that they must adopt new tech to market, ship, and inventory their products...
