Evaluating Distressed Debt in the Commercial Real Estate Arena
The real estate sector and the traditional banking sector, as a result of regulation and capital requirements, consistently allow for market inefficiencies to be exploited and value to be extracted in distressed or non-performing real estate loans.
- The overall commercial real estate debt market
- The opportunity to invest in non-performing loans
- Evaluating/Valuing distressed debt opportunities
- The process of identifying and then purchasing distressed debt
- Safe Harbor Equity’s strengths/advantages
Event Recording
Evaluating Distressed Debt in the Commercial Real Estate Arena
Speaker
Rafael Serrano
- Title
- Managing Director @
- Company
- Safe Harbor Equiity
- Role
- Speaker
Rafael Serrano is the managing director of Safe Harbor Equity He has managed hundreds of transactions involving a variety of performing and non performing commercial and residential mortgage loans, defaulted debt instruments, and distressed real estate assets. From 2001 to 2005 Mr Serrano served as a business management and strategic consultant to British Aerospace Systems (BAE Systems, Inc with responsibilities throughout South America. Prior, he served as a Corporate National Accounts Manager with WorldCom, Inc. From 1992 to 1999 he was the founder and CEO of MTU a provider of commercial vehicle fleet servicing and maintenance. Throughout his professional career, Mr Serrano has been an active participant in the acquisition, development and reposition of residential and commercial real estate properties He attended Florida International University.
About
Safe Harbor Equiity
Safe Harbor Equity is an opportunistic private equity firm that strategically acquires, originates, manages and repositions performing and nonperforming asset-backed real estate mortgages up to $20 million.
With a proven track record of success navigating the complexities of the distressed debt space, Safe Harbor Equity seeks to preserve investor capital while targeting IRR’s of 20% or higher by leveraging highly sophisticated, bleeding-edge analytical techniques, coupled with decades of collective experience, to provide its investors superior returns that are uncorrelated with market volatility.
Leveraging its extensive contacts in the secondary markets for residential and commercial real estate loans; the investment banking and private equity communities, and the commercial and residential real estate sectors in general, Safe Harbor Equity leverages its extensive network to source deals and seize upon unique opportunities wherever they may arise.