By David Repka, Co-Founder Bison Financial Group Let’s face it, the last few years have been astonishingly difficult for anyone in the “dealmaking game” as fear, uncertainty and doubt have crept into the capital markets driving reliable sources of capital to the sidelines. No pocket of capital has been picked as clean as construction funding [...]
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From Convenience Store News ORLANDO, Fla. — Wawa’s plans to move into the Sunshine State are beginning to take concrete shape as construction is set to begin on a convenience store in Orlando. The site will be the Pennsylvania-based retailer’s first in Florida. The 5,000-square-foot Wawa will rise across from Sea World at International Drive and Central Florida Parkway, [...]
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Bison Financial Group headquartered here launches their ambitious “Nexus Funding Platform” aimed at bringing liquidity to the commercial real estate market and bringing jobs back to our communities. According to David Repka, Co-Founder of Bison, “Over the last three years we’ve witnessed a level of economic devastation not seen since the Great Depression. [...]
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I have been contacted by more lenders in the past 30 days than in the past 30 months… combined. I’m especially excited about the return of the CMBS marketplace. Get ready for the return of cheap, plentiful, non-recourse capital to fund commercial real estate. The dark days are over… time to get back in the [...]
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There is a classic scene in the 1979 movie The Jerk starring Steve Martin where he is asked, “what I win?” while working at the carnival’s “Guess Your Weight” booth… watch it here: This clip is my metaphor for how the commercial real estate finance markets have operated since the Fall of 2008. The lending [...]
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As the year is coming to a close many lenders and institutional investors want to clean up their balance sheets going into 2012. Bison Financial Group has a track record of closing transactions in 4, 8 & 11 days from first meeting our borrowers and learning about the transaction. Let us know if you need [...]
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Big Banks Lead the Return of Key Funding Source for Commercial-Property Owners; Still, a Fraction of Precrash Levels By: Lingling Wei in the Wall Street Journal Even as woes mount in the commercial-real-estate market, a once-vital source of funding for commercial-property owners is showing signs of life. Banks including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Goldman [...]
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfMhco_SFBk] Tampa Bay Real Estate Broker, Eric Odum, interviews Scott Jacobsen, Commercial Banking Manager for NorthStar Bank in Tampa, Florida. They discuss options for business owners to locate capital to continue to grow their businesses in a challenging environment. While finding debt to buy commercial real estate can be tough in today’s market, there are [...]
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I have been asked to moderate a panel at the upcoming Crittenden Commercial Real Estate Finance Conference in Atlanta, GA. The topic: Reinvention: Adaptation = Survival We will be discussing the fact that commercial real estate transaction volume is down 85-99% and in order to survive in this new economy we need to be able [...]
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By Nancy Leinfuss NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters) – RBS Commercial Funding on Friday priced a $309.7 million commercial mortgage-backed securities offering backed by multiple loans, the first sale of its kind in nearly two years and a benchmark for the recovering market. The so-called conduit deal is seen as a key gauge of risk [...]
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