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Question:
Why does it take longer to fund a syndicated loan?
Answer: In a typical commercial mortgage
banking transaction, a borrower goes to a mortgage broker; the mortgage broker
brings the loan request to a mortgage banker; and the mortgage banker sells the
loan to an institutional investor. However, in a syndicated commercial mortgage
loan transaction, the mortgage banker sells one loan to multiple institutional
investors by dividing the commercial mortgage loan into smaller individual
mortgage shares that are easier sold to investors who are more willing to invest
in a commercial real estate project that doesn't require them to put as much
money into it. Syndication requires more time and effort than would be required
of a mortgage banker in a typical commercial mortgage investment
marketplace.
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