JOHNSTON
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We are a boutique Real Estate Investment Management firm, providing Property Development financing throughout Southeast Queensland and more broadly throughout Australia, focusing on debt sizing between $35M - $150M.
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Our capital solutions range throughout the capital structure; with the ability to provide Senior, Junior, and quasi-Equity financing throughout the Project Lifecycle, from the initial acquisition of a project site to the completion and realization.
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Additionally, we provide Speciality Finance to the sector, providing debt based solutions for Soft Costs of the Sponsor both internally and externally for professional costs, and for specialized risk instrument financing.
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We underwrite on a bespoke basis to each situation, risk and performance profile, of each project.
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Why Us & Why Our Capital
Deliberately, we have structured our organization as to provide funding certainty to Developers/Project Sponsors.
We are not a Broker. We do not have any controls placed over us by any hidden decision makers.
Our capital is held and deployed at our sole discretion, and being a pool of permanent capital held domestically within Australia, we are able to provision credit via our payment infrastructure either the same day or within 24hr of executing finance facilities.​
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Sponsors have a direct point of contact to the senior Managing Partners throughout the underwriting process, who have the power to provide a binding Yes or No. This same point of contact - the same face, and same voice on the other end of the line is there throughout, whether the project is a success or failure.
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When we say Yes, that means Yes.
Project Debt Financing Suite
Project Finance
We provide all standard Hard Cost financing facility types broadly offered, however with a near unique risk appetite and flexibility in our underwriting, allowing us to provide capital to situations and scenarios which fit outside of the remit of lenders who require a formulaic structure. The Security we take is commensurate to the risk that we underwrite and also non-standardized, however as a general rule we do not require Personal Gaurantees.
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Our suite of debt financing options can underwrite any phase of the Project Lifecycle; the Acquisition, Construction, or Disposition on a 'stand alone' basis, but with a preference to be a capital participant within a project throughout.​​
ACQUISITION
​​Our capital is able to be the first drawn and last amortized for niche situations where liquidity is required to execute on opportunities to grow your project portfolio.​​
CONSTRUCTION
​​​Our facilities can finance construction beyond typical Fixed Price contracts, including Cost Plus and more bespoke Joint Venture arrangements, and also provide capital to Developer-Builders, and Builder-Developers.
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DISPOSITION
​​Supporting your project as it is delivered to market, we can provide tailored partly-amortizing facilities to allow project proceeds to flow back to the developer where there are liquidity constraints and opportunities requiring capital.
Speciality Finance
Project proceeds can be painfully slow to materialize even where there is verifiably strong demand, and meanwhile there are always soft cost outgoings in a development project which are added to your accounts payable ledger. Aside from large institutional developers, finance to support the day to day business of a Developer has not been provided historically, to provide stability and support as project values are realized. We can provide these facilities as either stand alone
Additionally, requirements are increasingly being placed upon developers by ADI lenders and the private market as the number of Private Debt providers increases, to obtain Third Party Risk Products for these Lenders consolidate their underwriting. These products almost universally require their cost and associated fees be paid prior to the product being originated.​​​​
PROFESSIONAL COSTS
Providing certainty to being able to pay professional fees and nurturing the relationships with your consultants is a must for projects, as set backs, delays, and unforeseen circumstances require these participants to sometimes go above and beyond to deliver, and get the project over the line.
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We are able to either on a stand alone basis or, incorporated into a Project Finance Facility, provision capital to these parties to ensure continued commitment to seeing the project get done.​
DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT
Through our own specialized corporate finance facilities, we can provide financing to Project Sponsors who have a dedicated internal Development Management function.
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SURETY & GAURANTY INSTRUMENT
​​Supporting your project as it is delivered to market, we can provide tailored partly-amortizing facilities to allow project proceeds to flow back to the developer where there are liquidity constraints and opportunities requiring capital.