Over the past year, the rise of debt funds has been a significant commercial real estate finance trend. At Berkadia, they've following entries into this market through their own debt fund tracker.

As of early May, Berkadia recorded close to 130 different debt funds, according to Hilary Provinse, executive vice president and head of mortgage banking at the company.

"Those are either private equity, debt fund vehicles or some operators who have raised funds where they're investing either preferred equity or debt into different parts of the stack," Provinse says. "So there's just a ton of liquidity on the debt funds."

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Leslie Shaver

Les Shaver has been covering commercial and residential real estate for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Multifamily Executive, Builder, units, Arlington Magazine in addition to GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.