Market Update Blog

May 28, 2020

The commercial real estate industry is split on the wisdom of making middle market/small balance loans (MMSB). For the purposes of this post, we define MMSB loans as any loan under $20 million. Many mortgage bankers, lenders, and brokers view…

May 14, 2020

The negative economic news caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has held the benchmark 10-year treasury to all-time lows, closing today at 0.62%. Lenders typically price their loans with a “spread” over their benchmark index. The 10-year U.S. Treasury is the…

May 7, 2020

Slatt Capital understands the importance of open communication during uncertain times and how vital information sharing is amongst our clients and industry partners. As part of these efforts, we’ve provided a summary of Average Interest Rates and Loan-To-Value (LTV) ratios across the different…

April 30, 2020

According to a recent announcement from City National Bank, “Q1 GDP contracted sharply by 4.8%, the first decline since 2014, and the steepest drop since 2008…. For the first 2/3 of the quarter, the economy was running strong, close to…

April 16, 2020

As we continue through the business interruptions caused by COVID-19, the Slatt Capital team felt that it was important to point out the benefits of working with a relationship-based, “full-service, independent” mortgage banking company. We are no longer in a…