Experienced Leadership.  Investment Discipline.  Dependable Partner.

Belmont Finance, L.P.'s ("Belmont Finance") Real Estate Group manages comprehensive public and private equity and debt strategies, with approximately $10.1 billion of assets under management  ("AUM") as of June 30, 2016. With its experienced team, along with its expansive network of relationships, our Real Estate Group capitalizes on opportunities across both real estate equity and debt investing. Our Real Estate Group's equity investments focus on implementing hands-on value creation initiatives to mismanaged and capital-starved assets, as well as new development, ultimately selling stabilized assets back into the market. Our debt strategies leverage our Real Estate Group's diverse sources of capital to directly originate and manage commercial mortgage investments on properties that range from stabilized to requiring hands-on value creation. Our Real Estate Group has achieved significant scale in a short period of time through various acquisitions and successful fundraising efforts. Our Real Estate Group provides investors access to its capabilities through several vehicles: a publicly traded commercial mortgage real estate investment trust ("REIT"), Belmont Finance Commercial Real Estate Corporation (NYSE:ACRE), U.S. and European real estate private equity commingled funds and real estate equity and debt separately managed accounts. Our Real Estate Group's activities are managed by dedicated equity and debt teams in the U.S. and Europe.

Our Real Estate Group’s senior leadership averages more than 30 years of relevant real estate investment experience. Our Real Estate Group has over 70 investment professionals with a global footprint across ten cities across the U.S. and Europe as of June 30, 2016. We believe our multi-asset class experience, global scale and deep property knowledge differentiate us from other investors in the real estate market.

Our Real Estate Group leverages the following core capabilities across our platform:

• Experienced Leadership—Stable and deep team that has been market cycle-tested and is established in many local markets across the world
• Global Market Perspective—Integrating a global market view with local market knowledge and fundamental asset analysis
• Multi-Channel Sourcing—Deep connectivity into local property networks, leading to off-market deal flow
• In-House Research—Corporate and industry research to identify and capitalize on market trends

Real Estate Equity

Our real estate equity team has extensive private equity and property experience in the United States and Europe. Our real estate equity team has approximately 50 investment professionals across nine offices and primarily invests in new developments and the repositioning of assets, with a focus on control or majority-control investments. Our real estate equity team primarily targets the United States and Europe. As of June 30, 2016, our real estate equity team advised 45 investment vehicles totaling, in aggregate, approximately $7.6 billion in AUM. Primary areas of focus for our Real Estate Group equity teams include:

Real Estate Equity Value-Add Strategy: Our U.S. and European value-add funds focus on undermanaged and under-funded assets, seeking to create value by buying assets at attractive valuations as well as through active asset management of income-producing property types, including multifamily, retail, office, hotel and industrial properties across the United States and Western Europe.

Real Estate Equity Opportunistic Strategy: Our U.S. and European opportunistic real estate funds capitalize on increased investor demand for developed and stabilized assets by focusing on manufacturing core assets through development, redevelopment and fixing distressed capital structures across all major property types including multifamily, hotel, office, retail and industrial properties across the United States and Europe.

Real Estate Debt

Our real estate debt team of 20 professionals directly originates and invests in a wide range of self-originated financing opportunities for middle-market owners and operators of U.S. commercial real estate. As of June 30, 2016, our real estate debt team advised three investment vehicles totalling, in the aggregate, approximately $2.5 billion in AUM. 

In addition to managing private funds, we make investments through a specialty finance company, ACRE, primarily focused on directly originating, managing and servicing a diversified portfolio of commercial real estate (“CRE”) debt-related investments. As of June 30, 2016, ACRE had an investment portfolio of approximately $1.2 billion in commitments.  ACRE is managed by Belmont Finance Commercial Real Estate Management LLC, a subsidiary of Belmont Finance.

Our Real Estate Debt team focuses on directly originating loans using its extensive national relationships with various owner-operators, sponsors and intermediaries of real estate properties.  We seek to provide flexible financing across a potential borrower’s capital structure.  While we focus on self-originated transactions, we will also selectively pursue secondary market acquisitions and club/syndicated transactions.

The following highlights our lending strategy:

• Pursue strong risk-adjusted returns by investing in what we believe to be the most attractive position in a given capital structure
• Drive internal deal flow primarily through direct origination
• Emphasize flexible transactions where our competitive advantages are strongest
• Actively manage portfolio through rated special servicer
• Lead transactions and remain an active investor
• Leverage the power of the Belmont Finance platform

We believe our principal orientation, flexibility and non-bureaucratic approach differentiate us from other debt capital providers in the commercial real estate middle market. In addition to offering senior and subordinated debt products, we actively provide “stretch senior”, transitional senior and bridge loans in order to customize financing solutions for the specific transaction needs of our clients.