Real Estate Debt and Vehicles

Free CAIA Level I lesson in Real Assets. 48 min read, ~7,215 words.

Capital stack runs senior first mortgage, B-note, mezzanine, preferred equity, common equity: lowest-risk lowest-return to residual. Mezzanine is secured by a pledge of ownership interests, not by a property lien: UCC foreclosure, not real-property foreclosure. Fulcrum security is the least-senior debt tranche still in the money: its owner controls the...

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