The core of our business is a thorough analysis of the credit of our future partner.
Our strategy is to invest with companies with strong growth prospects, proven business models and defendable market positionings.
Our proven track record coupled with a strong reputation makes us a strong partner.
We invest across the credit spectrum from financially stable to distressed entities.
LeadCrest’s investment objective is to build a diversified portfolio of high-yielding real estate assets, occupied by credit tenants on long-term, triple net leases.
Underwriting a sale-leaseback transaction is namely a credit strategy real estate serves as additional collateral. Investment opportunities could be categorized in four segments as shown in the matrix below:
This is an attractive segment as it combines strong tenants with non-prime real estate assets. The assets are qualified as non-prime as they might be tenant specific or simply located in non-major real estate submarkets with lower barriers to entry.
This is a highly competitive segment which combines prime real estate assets and locations with typically investment grade tenants. Such assets are highly sought-after by both international equity investors as well as leading domestic investment firms. Their cost of capital is typically lower than private investors.
This is also an attractive segment as it combines prime real estate assets, but with somewhat riskier credits. The corporate users are qualified as riskier due to size, leverage or simply their years of operating history. However, the credit risk is offset by the ownership of a strong asset in a prime real estate submarket.
This segment is the riskiest part of the market as it combines both real estate and credit risks. A risky asset could be an old asset, a non-major location with low liquidity or simply a specialized, single-purposed asset. This category could offer strong yields with high initial acquisition cap rate. However, it also posts significant risk at this point of the economic cycle.