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Hudson River Valley

New Paltz Multi-Family

The offering is a senior construction facility of $31.9 million, sized at 75 percent and a mezz loan of $4.25 million for a $41.4 million total development cost, to fund the ground-up delivery of a 128-unit, Class A mixed-use multifamily community with 8,700 square feet of ground-floor retail in New Paltz, New York. The request is not a wager on a market's direction; it is a claim on a structural imbalance that already exists. New Paltz has absorbed roughly a quarter of population growth since 2020 against a housing stock that has scarcely moved, and the Project answers that scarcity with professionally managed, walk-and-bike-to-campus product the submarket demonstrably lacks.

 

For a lender, the compelling feature of this credit is the cushion beneath it. The loan funds to a basis of $323,730 per unit yet underwrites to a stabilized value near $62.5 million, or roughly $488,000 per unit; the facility therefore delevers from 75 percent of cost to approximately 50 percent of stabilized value as the asset seasons. Stabilized net operating income of $2.97 to $3.28 million supports a debt yield near 9.6 percent, a figure that clears conventional construction thresholds with room to spare. A fifteen-year PILOT further insulates cash flow by holding the tax burden below market across the critical lease-up and stabilization window.

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Community Summary

  • 128 Units

  • 4 Stories

  • Ground Floor Retail

  • Studio: 16 Units

  • One Bed: 62 Units

  • Two Beds: 30 Units

  • Affordable: 20 Units

  • State of The Art Fitness Center

  • Business Center

  • Conference Rooms

  • Smart Package Room

  • Club Room

  • Indoor Bike Storage

  • 150 Surface Parking Spaces

Demand is anchored, not speculative. SUNY New Paltz enrolls approximately 7,900 students against roughly 3,250 on-campus beds and requires first-year residency, pushing several thousand returning students into an off-campus market with little institutional supply; the university also employs near 1,600 faculty and staff whose housing need is indifferent to the academic calendar. That base sits inside a Hudson Valley that reached record private employment through late 2025 and continues to absorb migration from New York City, a confluence that lends the rent thesis durability rather than momentum.

 

The Project is underwritten with deliberate conservatism: a 6.71 percent return on cost against a 5.25 percent exit, a blended market rent of $2,493 that sits at or below the newest comparable now leasing on the same corridor, and an expense load held near 34 percent. The result is a loan that is protected first by basis, then by cash flow, then by a demand engine that does not switch off. Capital deployed here is secured not by optimism, but by the arithmetic of scarcity.

Equity

Land Value

Construction Loan

5798​

Total Project Cost

Investment Summary

  • Total Project Cost: $41.4M

  • Equity: $2.8M

  • Land Value: $3.59M

  • LTC: 85%

  • Construction Debt: $36.1M 

  • Construction Period: 16 mos

  • Stabilization: 24 mos

  • Net PILOT: $5.4M

  • Yr 1 NOI: $2.5M

  • Yr 1 Debt Yield: 10.56%

  • Yr 1 Yield on Cost: 6.52%

  • Yr 1 Yield on Cost: 7.83% (w/ pilot)

  • Yr 1 Value: $50.7M (5% CAP)

  • Yr 5 Project IRR: 31%

  • Yr 5 Project Equity Multiple: 3x

  • Yr 5 Profit $21.4M

75%

LTC

10.5%

Debt Yield

7.83%

Yield On Cost

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