Posts by Schelin Uldricks & Co.

In this week’s Insights Post we wanted to share with our readers an update on one of our favorite institutional equity programs. This group is based out of the northeast but they have a local office in the Los Angeles area where they source their west coast investments. The group has been in business for…

Yesterday, Schelin Uldricks & Co. spoke with an active, well capitalized C-PACE Lender based in Denver. They have plenty of funds to deploy nationwide and will generally consider most property types (Multifamily, Industrial, Retail, Hospitality, Senior Living, Office, Self-Storage, Student Housing, and Mixed Use) with projects that have Retroactive, Gut Rehab, Adaptive Reuse, Ground Up…

In this Insights Series Post we thought we would share the results of a recent marketing campaign we ran to place debt financing on a parcel of land. This sheds light on how challenging the current market is for one of the most difficult asset classes to finance. Broadly speaking, land is one of the…

What is C-PACE? C-PACE is a less understood form of financing in the commercial real estate world but is gaining momentum in the age of higher interest rates.  C-PACE is an acronym that stands for Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy.  C-PACE is a public-private financing regime enabled at the state level through legislation that authorizes…

Our executive management team attended the 2024 MBA CREF in San Diego this week to meet with capital sources and get updates on what investors want to do in 2024, here are some high-level notes from our meetings: 1. CMBS: Spreads are in from 2023 but indexes are up. Volatility surrounding the Fed decision on…

What is USDA Financing for Rural Development? Developers and business owners in rural America often have a difficult time locating financing for their real estate project or business expansion.  Most mainstream lenders tend to focus on larger markets with dense employment drivers and employment diversity leaving many great real estate development opportunities unable to develop…

In the regular course of our business we are constantly talking to capital sources, whether it be lenders, institutional equity investors, or high net worth investors and family offices. It’s imperative that we stay on top of what they are doing so that we can inform our clients of the ever-changing market and direct them…

In this week’s Schelin Uldricks & Co. Insights series, we explore credit unions and how they fit into the capital markets world.  What is a credit union, you ask?  From a high level, credit unions are member-owned financial cooperatives that provide traditional banking services.  Among these services include checking accounts, savings accounts, certificates of deposit,…

As we start 2024 there is a lot of eager anticipation around whether the Fed will start to lower interest rates this year. Most of what we’re reading predicts anywhere from three to six 25bps rate decreases but there is a lot of debate and uncertainty around that. There is also a lot of debate…