Why Carlton is the Best Loan Sale Advisor to Maximize Your Recovery

Long Term Experience and Results

  • Carlton has been continuously in the loan sale business since 1991.
  • More than $80 Billion of asset sales, recapitalizations, and refinancings have been completed by Carlton.
  • Our management team has over 300 years of combined valuation, underwriting, structuring, trading, and investment experience.

Loan Sale Platform

  • We maintain a database of over 100,000 domestic and international investors.
  • We possess a matching technology which pairs investors with preferred asset classes.
  • We provide financing and can partner local investors with institutional capital sources.
  • We are experts in commercial and residential loan trading and have evolved marketing and trading strategies that have been perfected over the last 20 years.
  • We possess a highly-sophisticated structured finance and investment banking practice that has substantial experience in drafting and reviewing loan and securitization documentation.
  • High level of expertise monetizing whole loans that fall out of CMBS, REMIC, CDO and ABS trusts
  • Immediate access to qualified bidders.
  • We create a competitive and transparent atmosphere.

Structured Finance/Securitization and Valuation Expertise

  • Carlton's team of senior investment bankers have significant experience in analyzing all aspects of commercial and residential loan documents and inter-creditor arrangements. The quality of the loan documentation is a big factor in an investor's decision on how much to pay for a loan. Our ability to dig through and advise our clients on difficult legal and transactional structures allows our clients to evaluate and maximize the best potential pricing for a loan asset.
  • Carlton has advised many regional banks, pension funds, and other portfolio lenders in structuring and valuing highly-complex financing arrangements that are held on institution's balance sheets.
  • Ability to leverage the investment-banking relationships of Carlton Advisory Services, Inc. to arrange financing on your note sales.
  • All of this results in improved pricing as buyers are able to use leverage to achieve their minimum returns.


Past Transactions

UPB Primary Collateral Type Collateral Locations Comments
$55,000,000 Four star golf resort and spa Savanah, GA Sold near par
$353,000,000 Hospitality Portfolio Nationwide Participation Interest in $7.2 B capital stack.  This transaction underscores Carlton’s ability to navigate complicated securitization structures and documentation in order to facilitate transactions.
$32,000,000 Luxury Boutique Hotel Seattle, WA First mortgage sale secured by Class A property
$24,600,000 Luxury Boutique Hotel Portland, OR First mortgage sale secured by Class A property
$35,000,000 Hotel Property Chicago, IL Sold performing B-Note secured by high-end boutique hotel
$16,000,000 Hotel Property Northeastern U.S. Sold first mortgage secured by 465 key full service hotel
$40,000,000 Hospitality Portfolio 11 Southern States Sold mezzanine note secured by hotel portfolio
$100,000,000 Hospitality Portfolio Nationwide Arranged non-recourse, matched term financing for the acquisition of six first mortgage, B-note and Mezz loans
$307,000,000 Commercial Real Estate Nationwide Loan sale for one of the largest commercial servicers in the US
$100,000,000 Commercial Real Estate Texas Sale of performing and non-performing loans and REO
$310,000,000 Commercial Real Estate Nationwide 600 small balance commercial loans sold for a top 15 bank
$1,100,000,000 CRE: Hotel, MF, Office & Retail Nationwide Strong pricing despite deteriorating market
$700,000,000 Hospitality Portfolio Numerous States High level of recovery achieved despite unfavorable market conditions
$300,000,000 Hospitality Portfolio U.S. and Canada Sold various mezzanine positions in the ESH hospitality portfolio
$265,000,000 Nonperforming CRE and Land Loans CA, NV, FL, MS, LA 4th sale from seller
$225,000,000 Mezzanine Positions in a $7.4B Loan 44 States and Canada Secured by the equity position in a 76,000-key hotel portfolio
$200,000,000 Performing Residential 1-4 Family California High level of recovery achieved
$170,000,000 Nonperforming CRE and Land Loans California and Nevada Most assets sold for over 70% of UPB
$150,000,000 Industrial Whole Loan & B-Note Portfolio Southeastern, US Financing for the acquisition of a large industrial loan portfolio
$150,000,000 Industrial Whole Loan and B-Note Portfolio Nationwide Sold to a large public REIT
$147,000,000 Performing and Sub-Performing HE Term Loans Nationwide Sold 100% of the portfolio
$136,000,000 Performing Residential Jumbo NJ & Northeast US All loans sold at strong pricing
$118,000,000 Auto: Deficiencies and Nonperforming Nationwide All sold despite weak documentation
$100,000,000 Luxury Manhattan Condominium New York, NY B-Note secured by a luxury condominium in Manhattan
$91,000,000 Nonperforming CRE and Land Loans California Most assets traded despite 35-day timeline
$88,000,000 Nonperforming CRE and Land Loans Southeast US 2nd Sale w/ client; Over 60% of the assets traded
$75,000,000 Office Portfolio Southern California Sold mezzanine position in $1.5 B performing Cabi loan
$75,000,000 Mezzanine Position in $1.51B Secured Loan Southern California Secured by 33 cross collateralized/cross defaulted Class A/B properties in southern CA
$67,000,000 CRE and Land Loans + REO Portfolio Southeast US Almost 70% of assets sold
$58,000,000 Bank Branch / Retail REO Portfolio Numerous States Assets traded in numerous states
$49,000,000 Performing "Hard Money" CRE Loans East Coast US Strong pricing from other Hard Money lenders and niche buyers
$40,000,000 Office Portfolio NYC Metro Area Sold performing B-Note secured by suburban office portfolio
$40,000,000 Jr. Participation in $200 M Sr. Loan New York City Secured by 13 high-quality office properties in suburban business district outside NYC (1.4 million sq ft)
$40,000,000 B-Note Secured in $125M 1st Mortgage Chicago, IL Secured by a Class A, 297-key, luxury, boutique hotel in Chicago, IL 
$32,000,000 Hotel Property Seattle, WA Sold performing first mortgage
$24,600,000 Hotel Property Portland, OR Sold performing first mortgage and arranged financing for buyer