LAKELAND, Fla. — Ziegler has arranged $32.8 million in bond financing for The Estates at Carpenters, a 33-acre continuing care retirement community (CCRC).
Finance
Coming out of the financial crisis, cash-out financing became a term that virtually no commercial real estate sponsor dared utter. Lenders and regulators took a dim view of the practice, which, as a product of lax underwriting standards that helped fuel the crisis, too often allowed borrowers to retain only a sliver of equity in their properties. And few landlords had the capacity to strike cash-out deals anyway, given the drop in commercial property values. As commercial real estate values have recovered, however, lenders have become agreeable to making cash-out …