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Emigrant Mortgage Company, through Emigrant Funding Corporation, offers portfolio small balance commercial / mixed use products for first mortgage financing for most types of commercial real estate, including: multifamily apartment houses, mixed-use buildings, retail strips and office properties. As a subsidiary of Emigrant Bank, a 167-year-old New York savings institution, Emigrant Funding is able to draw upon the vast resources of its parent to make sure borrowers get the f

Singer Financial Corp. is a private financial institution with over 20 years of experience making real estate secured commercial and business loans in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The Company is owned by Paul Singer who founded Singer Financial Corp. in 1992, and we have been located in the Rittenhouse Square area of Center City Philadelphia since 1995. Singer Financial Corp. is a direct portfolio lender with our own pool of capital available to lend. This provides

From a lending standpoint, banks and commercial real estate have a complicated relationship. Economic cycles are part of that, but so are property types and conditions. Why, for example, are banks hesitant to provide loans for undeveloped land?In reality, land is anything but a simple proposition—it can tangle up transactions because of everything from zoning and approvals, to viability, to development-related costs that can materialize out of thin air—everything from real es

Regal Bank is a full-service community bank that serves residents and businesses in the northern New Jersey area. Earlier this year, an existing customer of the bank approached the lending staff with the goal of purchasing a local Livingston eatery that is a landmark of the community with a strong customer base. The customer also wished to purchase the building that houses the eatery.Restaurants are traditionally viewed as challenging businesses to finance. The sales are comp

We recently published a story about a distressed grocery-anchored Shopping Center with over 90,000 s/f available for rent representing over 50% of the total NRA. The road to recovery was paved with multiple obstacles: •Property was 57% vacant •$10MM over leveraged CMBS Loan vs. current Property value •Weak tenant market & $3MM of TI required •Special Servicer negotiation and document challenges Working in lockstep, The Henley Group and the borrower were able to get the

There is much glitz and glamour in reading about the many large real estate transactions that take place each month. The story about the $50MM apartment building or $100MM office complex. These transactions are taking place at the elite levels of the economy, with well-seasoned borrowers and investors. Like the economy however, it is the small business and investor that are the engine to keeping us moving forward. There is a strong lending market currently for performing asse

The Mid-Atlantic region is a hotbed of higher education. New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the Union, has more than 50 colleges and universities. To continue to grow, many institutions are turning to creative development and financing to build the kinds of accommodations (room and board in the parlance of education) and amenities that serve both student and community alike. They are working in tandem with private developers to leverage their capital dollars and