Friday, March 7, 2014

Winter & Co. Retained to Advise Board on Financing for Riverside Drive Cooperative Building on Manhattan's Upper West Side


24-story, 318-unit cooperative building, Riverside Drive, Upper West Side, Manhattan, NY

NEW YORK, NY, March 7, 2014 -- Winter & Company was retained to advise the board of directors of this 24-story, 318-unit cooperative building located on Riverside Drive on Manhattan's Upper West Side in connection with a new $14 million financing assignment.

Winter & Company was able to obtain an offer for a 3.25%, 10-year, interest-only mortgage literally one week before rates began their upward climb.

The pre-war building, which has 306 residential units and 12 commercial units, ultimately chose a $12 million mortgage along with a $2 million unsecured line of credit.  Thus the co-op emerged from the refinancing with more than $6 million of surplus cash, which could be devoted to the work at hand.

Gregg Winter
Timing was critical to identify the correct lender as interest rates had just started to increase, thus the borrower's ability to lock in the interest rate immediately (upon acceptance of the term sheet) was a very important factor.

Over the past year or so, the co-op board had realized that it needed to address many important and expensive repairs and capital improvements, and thus needed a substantially larger mortgage in order to address these items, as well as a substantial unsecured line of credit to provide future funding for unforeseen items in the later years of the loan term.

Furthermore, the new financing would need to be structured as an interest-only loan, in order to minimize the impact of a much larger mortgage on each shareholder's maintenance payments.

The floating rate, unsecured credit line is priced at LIBOR plus 200 b/p with a floor of 3.5%. The 10-year credit line has no non-use fees, and no mortgage recording tax was incurred by the co-op on the credit line, thus saving them $56,000 in closing costs.
  
Winter & Company is a Manhattan-based, commercial mortgage advisory firm that specializes in arranging development and construction financing, multifamily and mixed-use property financing and arranging cooperative underlying mortgages since 1989.

 Its affiliate, W Financial Fund, LP is a direct private bridge lender providing short-term, special situation financing primarily for NYC multifamily and mixed-use properties celebrating its 10th year of successful operations. W Financial was recently profiled in Barron's. The article. “Rock-Solid Real Estate”  is available here.
  
 For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Gregg Winter - President
Winter & Company
Creative Minds | Unparalleled Service ®
149 Madison Avenue, Seventh floor
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212 532-1122 x1

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