A Grade financed residence, Los Angeles

Capital

Our Approach

Underwritten with Care.

Grade Capital is a capital markets advisory practice for residential construction across the lower 48 states — ground-up single-family, multi-family, and substantial remodels. We are not the lender. We act for the borrower: structuring the request, taking it to the lenders most likely to fund it, and staying with the transaction through closing. Because Grade develops and sells in one of the most demanding residential markets in the country, a request arrives here as a construction project first and a credit file second.

How We Underwrite

Our lens takes in the whole project, not just the numbers on a page.

We read a budget the way a builder reads it: against the drawings, the schedule, and what the finished home will be worth in its own market. A template can only measure a project against an average, so anything unusual registers as risk. We can tell the difference between a number that is unfamiliar and a number that is simply right.

In practice that means a request that reaches a lender already answered: draw schedules built around how work actually gets done, a budget that survives scrutiny, and an advisor who stays with the transaction after it closes rather than only when something goes wrong.

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Grade Capital residential real estate financing
Financing We Place
Grade Capital financing parameters by product type
Ground-Up
Construction
Renovation &
Major Remodel
Acquisition
& Bridge
Multi-Family
Construction
Loan Size $1 – $50 million $500K – $20 million $500K – $25 million $2 – $50 million
Leverage Up to 75% LTC 85% LTC / 70% ARV 75% LTC / 65% LTV Up to 75% LTC
Term 12 – 36 months 12 – 24 months 6 – 24 months 18 – 36 months
Rate Applies to all loan typesSOFR + 350 – 650 bps
Fees 1.0 – 2.0%+
Asset Class Single-family, multi-family, mixed-use, retail, office, land & condominium
Geography Lower 48 states, excluding Nevada
Purpose Business purpose only
Ground-Up Construction
Loan Size$1 – $50 million
LeverageUp to 75% LTC
Term12 – 36 months
Renovation & Major Remodel
Loan Size$500K – $20 million
Leverage85% LTC / 70% ARV
Term12 – 24 months
Acquisition & Bridge
Loan Size$500K – $25 million
Leverage75% LTC / 65% LTV
Term6 – 24 months
Multi-Family Construction
Loan Size$2 – $50 million
LeverageUp to 75% LTC
Term18 – 36 months
All Products
RateSOFR + 350 – 650 bps
Fees1.0 – 2.0%+
Asset ClassSingle-family, multi-family, mixed-use, retail, office, land & condominium
GeographyLower 48 states, excluding Nevada
PurposeBusiness purpose only

Leverage, pricing and fees are indicative only and vary by sponsor, market, project and lender appetite at the time of quote. Grade Capital is an advisory practice and does not lend its own capital. All terms are subject to lender underwriting and final credit approval. Nothing here is a commitment to lend.

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