Sara Havlena

Havlena is the editor-in-chief of Crittenden Real Estate magazine and The Crittenden Report: Real Estate Financing, Retail Tenants Report and the Multifamily Report and their respective websites. She has been an editor with Crittenden since 2007 and worked on a variety of real estate publications during her time at the company covering a wide range of topics from restaurant expansion to real estate developers. She has been the lead reporter and editor of Crittenden’s flagship publication, The Crittenden Report, since 2011. She has a degree in Print Journalism from Cal State Fullerton, and resides in Orange County, Calif.

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    Equity Investors Pivot

    Count on a plethora of available pref equity dollars as the market will be flush with new capital this year.  Expect more players than any point in the cycle as investors that have traditionally been focused on JV equity now turn to pref equity and mezz to grab yield.  The pref equity and structured finance More

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    Hotel Development on Tight Watch

    Hotel construction loans will be heavily scrutinized this year as lenders look to reduce risk.  Projects in high barrier-to-entry markets and strong developers with past construction experience will see available dollars from banks and private money lenders.  Count on lenders to be more sponsor-focused than in the past and put a heavier emphasis on track More

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    Lenders set Sights on MHC

    Expect plenty of available capital for manufactured home community (MHC) properties this year.  Banks, non-bank portfolio lenders, CMBS lenders and the agencies will all play in the space.  MHC will be an important piece of the residential sector as finding affordable housing becomes scarce.  Parks have been disappearing and the number of new MHC parks More

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    New Lenders Hoist Construction

    The market will see a continued reduction in bank lending on new construction loans due to uncertainty surrounding further impending banking regulations.  In their place, more debt funds, private money and specialty finance lenders will make their way into the ground-up capital market.  These lenders will tailor their financing solutions, such as stretch senior and/or More

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    Banks Bide Their Time

    Bank lending will heat up later this year if whispers of the current administration loosening or repealing existing regulations come true.  Modifications to the HVCRE regulations will impact banks’ willingness to lend on new construction.  Construction loans will see 50% to 55% LTC, although relaxing of regulations could push that benchmark to 60% to 65% More

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    Lenders Lust for Industrial

    Life companies, banks and CMBS lenders will have strong appetites to finance industrial in 2018.  Occupancy is at an all-time high, rents are rising and there is demand in most major markets.  There will be a major push toward industrial as apartments are being overbuilt in some markets and retail, office and hotels are not More