CRE Trends & Insights
By Justin Ashcraft, Principal, Northern Ridge Capital. Last updated July 2026. CREXi vs Ten-X financing looks almost identical at the loan level. Both platforms run non-contingent auctions with...
By Justin Ashcraft, Principal, Northern Ridge Capital. Last updated July 2026. CREXi vs Ten-X financing looks almost identical at the loan level. Both platforms run non-contingent auctions with...
By Justin Ashcraft, Principal, Northern Ridge Capital. Last updated July 2026. Before you can bid on most commercial real estate auction platforms, you have to prove you can actually pay. That’s...
By Justin Ashcraft, Principal, Northern Ridge Capital. Last updated July 2026. Win a commercial property at auction and the clock is already running. The purchase agreement is signed within hours, the...
By Justin Ashcraft, Principal, Northern Ridge Capital (CA DRE #02093377), with $600M+ in commercial real estate deal experience. Last updated July 2026. Short answer: a balloon coming due is a...
By Justin Ashcraft, Principal, Northern Ridge Capital (CA DRE #02093377), with $600M+ in commercial real estate deal experience. Last updated July 2026. The best value-add deals share a problem: on...
By Justin Ashcraft, Principal, Northern Ridge Capital, CA DRE #02093377, with $600M+ in commercial real estate deal experience. Last updated July 2026. If you’re pricing a bridge loan for a...
By Justin Ashcraft, Principal, Northern Ridge Capital (CA DRE #02093377), with $600M+ in commercial real estate deal experience. Last updated July 2026. Short answer: a bridge loan buys you speed and...
By Justin Ashcraft, Principal, Northern Ridge Capital (CA DRE #02093377), with $600M+ in commercial real estate deal experience. Last updated July 2026. Short answer: a commercial bridge loan...
By Justin Ashcraft, Principal, Northern Ridge Capital (CA DRE #02093377), with $600M+ in commercial real estate deal experience. Last updated July 2026. Short answer: a 1031 exchange bridge loan is...
Everyone’s talking about rates and the maturity wall. But the commercial real estate challenges actually breaking $5M–$30M deals this quarter are operating line items: construction...
DSCR Too Low to Refinance? The “Performing but Unbankable” Problem — and How to Solve It Your property is full and cash-flowing, but your maturing loan won’t refinance at the...
Your 5-minute read on what moved this week and what’s imminent — a working broker’s take for owners with $5M–$30M of commercial debt. The headline number looks alarming; the...
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