ATLANTA, Georgia—Access Point Financial (APF) introduced that the corporate has closed and dedicated to roughly $1.6 billion in hospitality-specific financings year-to-date in 2025. The financings comprise 51 resort property and embrace direct bridge loans, mezzanine loans, building loans, most well-liked fairness, and hotel-specific SASB CMBS investments.
“In at present’s difficult markets, inventive capital options are not non-obligatory—they’re important,” mentioned Mike Lipson, chief govt officer of Entry Level Monetary. “We now have been working diligently to offer our purchasers with progressive, different routes to efficiently finance their resort initiatives. APF is open for enterprise, and we stand able to deploy capital rapidly and decisively for a various and rising group of resort house owners.”
The resorts are positioned throughout 20 states and are primarily affiliated with a number of firms, together with Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, and Selection.
New Development Focus
APF moreover has grown its building mortgage choices to incorporate higher-leverage options. “We all know there’s a want and have made a concerted effort to supply capital options for that a part of the market,” Lipson added. “The present U.S. resort pipeline exceeds 6,200 resort initiatives, creating an excellent alternative to work with confirmed resort builders growing sturdy manufacturers.”
Capability & Wanting Forward
APF has elevated its capital markets efforts and expanded its community of companions for progress. “With over a billion {dollars} of capability and rising, we wish to make sure that the resort sector and people who finance it know we’re a rising platform,” mentioned Lipson.
Wanting forward, APF’s pipeline continues to develop. “We really feel there isn’t a scarcity of resort house owners in want of capital options,” Lipson famous. “The objective is to have the ability to underwrite an consequence that’s workable for all events. Encouragingly, we discover ourselves repeatedly profitable transactions with subtle sponsors by providing high-leverage constructions mixed with a number of flexibility that you would be able to’t get from many different capital sources, particularly with portfolio transactions. This has been a vivid spot for us, permitting us to reveal the pliability and execution certainty we offer over many different capital suppliers.”
