Ultra low cap rates are creating an increased demand for construction financing. Cap rate compression has made it difficult for investors to get their required yields, and as a result, many are turning to new construction projects. The heightened demand has allowed lenders to be more selective when looking at construction financing deals. This year, Shahin Adeli, VP at CBRE, and his team secured $100 million in construction financing for clients, for industrial, retail and office properties. To find out more about activity in the construction lending market and how the process is evolving as the result of increased competition, we sat down with Adeli for an exclusive interview.

GlobeSt.com: Is construction financing beginning to pick back up?

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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