Life company lenders will be full speed ahead in 2025

by Sara Havlena

October 18, 2024
3:00 pm

Watch for life companies to have a huge lending appetite next year, leading to plenty of available capital. Most LCs plan to beat their 2024 allocations in 2025. Rates are expected to drop again, which will encourage borrowers to proceed with refinancing or acquisitions. This surge in transactional volume should increase life company originations. Borrowers will see higher leverage and lower debt yield minimums. Anticipate LCs to be more detailed in their underwriting and look closer at rent trends, co-tenancy and retention ratios. More

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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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