• It is used to finance leasehold improvements and fixed assets such as equipments and buildings.
• Loan amounts are available for up to $500,000 for real estate loans and 350,000 for equipments and leaseholds.
• Financing is available for up to 90% of eligible costs mentioned above.
• Repayment options can be made in monthly installments with a fixed or variable interest term.
• It is noteworthy that Personal guarantee is required for only 25% of the original loan amount.
• The CSBFL comes with a one time government registration fee of 2% of the loan amount. For instance, if you borrow $100,000, be prepared to pay $2,000 dollars extra in fees. Some banks may allow you to include the 2% fee to the loan amount for financing.
• Contact us for more details.

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Mar 22, 2010 – CRE News

In another sign that the era of rapid commercial property value declines is ending, pricing in January increased for the third consecutive month, according to the Moody’s/Real Commercial Property Price Indices, or CPPI.

However, the monthly rise is not a reason to expect a swift run-up in prices. If anything, it may show that pricing patterns will fluctuate in the months ahead.

January’s 1% hike follows a 4.1% gain in December in the indices’ all-property component. CPPI is a collaboration of Moody’s Investors Service and Real Estate Analytics that tracks repeat sales of properties.

The December increase, which was the largest monthly gain ever recorded by the index, followed a 1% gain in November that was the index’s first increase since December 2008.

“Passengers are advised to keep their seatbelts fastened in case of further turbulence” in pricing, Moody’s said. It added that the broader economy remains under pressure, and how that plays out will impact pricing.

For example, lenders have yet to offer massive amounts of properties taken from financially troubled owners. Instead, many lenders have been extending the maturity dates of troubled loans. Not until sales start taking place in volume can “market-clearing” prices be established, Moody’s said.

Going forward, it said that a move by the FDIC to sell commercial mortgages and properties taken from failed banks will create “new and lower benchmarks” in many markets.

Meanwhile, a reduced number of transactions in January set the stage for the month’s overall pricing levels to be driven upward by sales of higher-quality assets, which have faced solid investor demand. January’s 376 sales were down 8% from the same month a year before, but the $4.9 billion value of deals was up 9%.

Despite gains in recent months, January pricing for the all-property index was still down 38.7% from January 2008 and 40.2% lower than its peak in October 2007.

Industrial properties led all sectors in price drops over the past two years, as pricing for all of 2009 was down 33.9% from 2007. Multifamily was down 31.2%, office 30.6% and retail 25.9%.

CPPI’s all-property index is recorded monthly, while its indices for individual sectors are recorded quarterly.

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The days of rising capitalization rates are coming to a halt for class-A properties in all commercial sectors, says CB Richard Ellis.

Cap rates for those assets with stabilized incomes in the office, multifamily, retail and industrial sectors last year declined or held flat in more markets than the number of markets in which they rose, according to the brokerage’s analysis of sales data from Real Capital Analytics.

Going forward, CB expects the number of markets with flat or falling cap rates will even more significantly outnumber those in which they increase.

Cap-rate declines last year were slightly less prominent for class-A office, multifamily and industrial properties that are considered value-add in nature. Those are properties whose incomes could be significantly increased through renovations, re-tenanting and other strategies. [more...]

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