Simple Commercial Capital
Simple Commercial Capital describes itself as a boutique capital advisory firm founded in New York City and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. It states that it provides financing solutions nationwide for commercial real estate owners and lower-middle-market businesses.
What stands out about Simple Commercial Capital
Simple Commercial Capital is a commercial real estate capital advisory firm that arranges purchase, refinance, cash-out, construction, rehabilitation, bridge, hard-money and SBA financing through a network of capital providers.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
What does Simple Commercial Capital do?
Simple Commercial Capital describes itself as a boutique capital advisory firm founded in New York City and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. It states that it provides bespoke lending solutions to lower-middle-market businesses and commercial real estate owners nationwide.[1]
The firm states that it arranges commercial real estate capital for purchases, refinancings and cash-out transactions through capital-market partners. Its public offerings also include construction and rehabilitation financing, bridge and hard-money financing, and SBA 7(a) and SBA 504 financing for purchase, refinance and construction uses.
The stated capital-provider relationships include national and international banks, CMBS lenders, agency lenders, private lenders, private equity companies and insurance companies.[3][4][5][6]
For broader transaction context, owners can review Auxo’s valuation services, advisor-selection framework, and sell-side M&A advisory.
Published criteria: Published program parameters include $500k-$100M for prime commercial loans, $1M-$100M+ for construction and rehabilitation financing, $1M-$100M for bridge and hard-money financing, and $500k-$5M for SBA financing. Other stated parameters include leverage, term, rate and credit-score ranges that vary by program.[3][4][5][6]
What should an owner evaluate before engaging Simple Commercial Capital?
For a commercial property owner, the firm’s stated capabilities cover acquisition, refinancing, cash extraction, construction, rehabilitation, bridge and SBA financing across numerous property types. Before engaging, an owner should clarify the firm’s role in the proposed mandate, the identity of the eventual capital provider, all compensation arrangements, and the applicable financing and execution terms.[3][4][5][6]
Which legal entity will contract with the client, and is Simple Commercial Capital acting as broker, lender, advisor or an affiliate in the proposed transaction
What are the origination, advisory, success, commitment, extension and other fees, and are any fees paid by a lender or other third party
Is there an exclusivity period, tail provision or termination fee
What property types and markets does Simple Commercial Capital focus on?
Listed commercial real estate property types include multifamily, office, industrial, medical, mixed-use, self-storage, retail, auto repair, funeral homes and warehouses. The construction financing page additionally lists hotels, construction projects and related commercial property types.[3][4]
Simple Commercial Capital publicly describes financing for acquisitions, refinancings, cash extraction, construction, rehabilitation, bridge transactions and SBA-supported commercial real estate uses. The published programs provide different loan-size, leverage, term, rate and credit-score parameters.[3][4][5][6]
The firm’s homepage identifies an $8,300,000 hotel transaction involving an auction acquisition, an accelerated closing and a planned conversion to workforce housing. It also identifies a $1,625,000 flex-office refinancing that produced $800,000 of unrestricted cash-out, and a $3,115,000 gas-station-and-retail transaction involving debt consolidation, payoff of a land contract, maintenance of a subordinate mortgage, no prepayment penalty and cash-out.
An official resources article states that Luke Gooch arranged an $895,000 commercial real estate cash-out refinance for a mixed-use property in Clayton, North Carolina.[1][7]
What does Simple Commercial Capital publicly disclose about process and engagement terms?
The sources cited for this profile do not establish a detailed public process for evaluating, structuring or closing a financing mandate.
The official homepage’s featured-transaction section does not publish transaction dates, borrower or buyer names, lender identities, fees or total transaction volume for the three featured examples. The official homepage also does not publish an employee count, assets under management, annual financing volume or another organizational size metric.
The official commercial-loans page does not publish a universal fee schedule, engagement-fee structure, exclusivity period or termination terms. The official privacy policy does not publish a firm-level regulatory registration number or status.[1][2][3]
The official privacy policy identifies Ideate Solutions LLC as doing business as Simple Commercial Capital. That privacy policy does not publish a firm-level broker-dealer, investment-adviser, mortgage-broker or other regulatory registration number or status.[2]
Questions to ask before engaging Simple Commercial Capital
Which legal entity will contract with the client, and is Simple Commercial Capital acting as broker, lender, advisor or an affiliate in the proposed transaction?
What are the origination, advisory, success, commitment, extension and other fees, and are any fees paid by a lender or other third party?
Is there an exclusivity period, tail provision or termination fee?
Which capital providers are being considered for the proposed financing?
What are the expected recourse, guarantee, covenant, appraisal, environmental, rate-lock and prepayment requirements?
Can the firm provide dated references or additional closed-transaction details for comparable property types and financing sizes?
Sources & research notes
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