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How LifeCo Lenders Are Expanding Their Reach in 2026
Uncertainty creates opportunities and new comfort levels. By Austin Ridge The recent post-volatility years upended many borrowers’ traditional lending relationships, forcing sponsors to identify new sources for optimized debt to successfully fund their portfolio goals. Now the same is true for permanent lenders and their pursuit of yield in today’s highly competitive debt markets, particularly when targeting loans for the preferred industrial, retail and multifamily property
Austin Ridge
Mar 204 min read
LifeCo Innovations Open Doors for Borrowers
In the pursuit of yield, new loan programs for traditional and viable alternative assets are emerging. By Jeff Matlock It’s no secret. There is an enormous quantity of lender capital in the market today. For insurance lenders, most have committed to increasing, and for many dramatically increasing, their allocations to real estate lending in 2026. But in today’s marketplace they are facing increased competition for their preferred allocations to permanent debt on stable multi
Jeff Matlock
Mar 204 min read
Will Stability Win Over Volatility in 2026?
By Robert Slatt Featured in Commercial Property Executive Further rate cuts are an unknown, but conditions are improving for borrowers and lenders. The capital markets are moving towards 2026 in relatively good shape. Whether or not last week’s Fed Funds cut was an economic necessity, it did not derail the market’s expectations—in and of itself a good thing. Was the reduction warranted? The tea leaves do not show this was a unanimous decision in any way. While inflation remai
Robert Slatt
Dec 17, 20256 min read
Life Companies Target an Active 2026
Featured in Commercial Property Executive By Mike Wood Insurance company lenders have an appetite for commercial real estate lending and promise to be a stabilizing force for the years ahead. It’s hard to believe that we are already counting down the days to Thanksgiving, with the December holiday season just around the corner. Another year almost in the books. The lending climate is closing the year at a turning point for the better, and we seem to be sustaining positive mom
Michael Wood
Nov 6, 20255 min read
A Practical Housing Playbook Starts With Listening
By Charlie Kokernak Public and private stakeholders gathered in Portland to talk about reigniting production. Here are the key takeaways. In major cities across the nation, unmet housing demand is sparking a renewed interest in a public-private sector dialogue on where common ground can be identified to motivate future development. Case in point: A recent roundtable hosted by Oregon Governor Kotek and Portland Mayor Wilson brought developers, equity partners, lenders and civi
Charlie Kokernak
Oct 14, 20254 min read
Gantry’s Jeff Wilcox Sees Banks Return to CRE Lending
At Connect Apartments 2025 coming up on Thursday in Los Angeles, you’ll hear from capital markets experts in the “Multifamily Finance in...
Jeff Wilcox
Sep 10, 20252 min read
How Rate Hikes Have Changed the Lender Landscape
Featured in Multi-Housing News Despite disruptions, multifamily investors have numerous debt options, writes Gantry's Tom Grzebinski....
Tom Grzebinski
Aug 13, 20255 min read
2025 Is Half Over. Are You Thriving Yet?
Featured in Commercial Property Executive Gantry's Robert Slatt on why he's relatively optimistic about CRE finance for the remainder of...
Robert Slatt
Aug 6, 20255 min read
In CRE Finance, Motivation Has Replaced Procrastination
Featured in Commercial Property Executive A busy summer portends an active second half, writes Gantry's Michael Heagerty. Evaluating the...
Michael Heagerty
Aug 6, 20256 min read
Why Self Storage Has a Lock With Investors
Featured in Multi-Housing News By Tom Dao Despite current challenges, quality operators have maintained their access to capital,...
Tom Dao
Jul 23, 20255 min read
Loan Servicing Insights for a Market in Flux
Featured in Commercial Property Executive Gantry's Sara Litton on what servicers and lenders had to say at MBA's recent conference....
Sara Litton
Jun 4, 20257 min read
Multifamily Finance In A Volatile Market
By: Mark Reichter In an era of extended volatility and disrupted economic norms, multifamily continues to hold its position as the top...
Mark Reichter
May 29, 20255 min read
Diversifying Real Estate Portfolios While Navigating The 2025 Financing Market
Commercial real estate investors should be actively assessing their real estate portfolios in the current financing market – a market that is characterized by...
Tom Grzebinski
May 21, 20253 min read
The Fed Holds — Yet Borrowing Costs Chart Their Own Course
As widely expected, the Federal Reserve held rates steady this week. Yet the tone of the FOMC statement was clear: uncertainty remains...
Charlie Kokernak
May 20, 20252 min read
Retail Resilience on Display: Why Optimism Should Reign at This Year’s ICSC
First published at Western Real Estate Business May is here, and so is the moment where retail takes center stage in the commercial real...
Andrew Mekjavich
May 13, 20253 min read
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