When a bank makes a commercial construction loan, it is certainly not going to take all of the risk. A bank will usually require that the developer cover at least 20% to 30% of the total project cost – land cost, hard costs, soft costs, and a contingency reserve equal to 5% of the hard…
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I have a great training article about commercial loans for you today. How do conduits price their commercial loans? After all, commercial lenders cannot buy a forward commitment from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, like a residential mortgage banker; yet most commercial loans today are fixed rate loans. How on earth do the commercial loan…
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