Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Winter & Co. Retained for Third Time in 25 Years to Advise Owner of Apartment Building in Manhattan, NY


Six-Story, 63-Unit Apartment Building, Central Park North
facing Manhattan's Central Park, Manhattan, NY


Gregg Winter
NEW YORK, NY -- Winter & Company was retained for the third time in 25 years to advise the ownership of this three-building, six-story, 63-unit apartment building located on Central Park North facing Manhattan's Central Park in connection with obtaining permanent, non-recourse financing.

Winter & Company arranged a 3.75% 10-year fixed-rate, interest-only mortgage with a balance sheet lender for this long-time client.

Challenges and solutions:

One major challenge is that, on the one hand, the borrower wanted a $4,750,000 10-year, fixed rate, interest-only mortgage, while on the other hand, the borrower did not want a balloon loan, and also did not want a loan structured with a defeasance or yield-maintenance pre-payment penalty -- preferring instead a loan structure with a total term of 25 years which would amortize (after the initial 10-year i-o period) on a self-liquidating basis.

Winter & Company was able to find a way to accommodate this request by arranging the loan with a balance sheet lender that could offer our borrower an additional 15 years of term, on a fully self-liquidating basis, with the interest rate floating at 250 basis points above LIBOR during the last 15 years of the loan term.

Central Park in Manhattan, NY
The borrower did not want a CMBS execution (with its usual severe prepayment penalties), preferring instead to transact with a balance sheet lender.

 The solution was a highly-customized non-recourse loan structure meeting all of the borrower's exacting criteria.

Previously Winter & Company had arranged light rehab financing shortly after the original acquisition and then a decade later W&Co arranged a construction loan for a full gut-rehab of the entire property including 11 units which had been fire-damaged and off-line since the original acquisition. This resulted in bringing the unit count up from 42 to 63 apartments with considerable rent and NOI growth.

Winter & Company is a Manhattan-based, commercial mortgage advisory firm that specializes in arranging development and construction financing (as well as joint venture equity and strategic partnerships for new developments), 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 since 2003.

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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