OUR PERFORMANCE

• Breakwater Restructures $183MM Retail Portfolio
• A national retail developer was over $100MM underwater on a portfolio of assets. He had personally guaranteed most of the $183MM in loans and the situation was so bad that his lawyer advised him to file a personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
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• Prime Development Property on Florida’s Coast Saved from Foreclosure
• In 2003 a group of investors purchased a 50-year old office building in Clearwater, FL, as a development site to build ocean-view condos. The investors paid $8.2 million for the property and spent over $2MM in planning and entitlement costs.
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• Breakwater Restructures Debt on Troubled Omaha Office Building
• The owners of Embassy Plaza faced the loss of their property when their loan matured and they were unable to refinance it. They hired two different law firms to try to restructure their loan. The lawyers failed. The investors then hired a mortgage broker to find new financing, but he failed.
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• Met Center 10 Investors Find a Safe Harbor with Breakwater
• After spending close to $1MM on lawyers and getting nowhere, the 26 tenant-in-common owners of Met Center 10 came to Breakwater Equity Partners with their troubled investment.
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• Breakwater Commercial Workout Helps Developer Save Project With an 87% Loan Cramdown
• In late 2007, investors from two states, a private equity group out of Texas and a group of individuals from California, began construction on a twelve-story office building in downtown San Diego.
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• Breakwater Rescues Shopping Center from Foreclosure in Record Time
• A group of very sophisticated investors took out a $24MM construction loan to build a Southern California shopping center. The completed 75,000 sq. ft. retail space had an original projected value of $36MM, and looked to be a promising investment.
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• Breakwater Equity Completes Successful Commercial Loan Workout for California Golf Course
• A California businessman was facing a debt load he could not manage, in addition to growing pressure from his lender, and the serious prospect of losing another golf course property in California.
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• Breakwater Equity Returns Retail Center to Positive Cash Flow Through Commercial Loan Workout
• Workout scenarios vary widely. Every situation is unique, and not all workouts are home runs. Some workouts can be resolved within months; others may take up to two years and end up a single or a double to use baseball terminology.
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• Commercial Loan Workout Helps Real Estate Investor Out of $2.4 MM Personal Guarantee
• Prior to the real estate decline in 2007, an Arizona-based doctor purchased a $3 million residential property in a high-end suburb of Phoenix and was working with a developer to build luxury homes. The unimproved land needed final engineering and horizontal improvements.
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• Developer Escapes BK and Personal Guarantees Using Breakwater Equity
• A boutique oceanfront developer in southern California with a successful history building luxury homes, was saddled with excess real estate inventory caused by the sudden downturn in the economy.
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• Breakwater Restructures $183MM Retail Portfolio

  A national retail developer was over $100MM underwater on a portfolio of assets. He had personally guaranteed most of the $183MM in loans and the situation was so bad that his lawyer advised him to file a personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

  View all our Case Studies

• Prime Development Property on Florida’s Coast Saved from Foreclosure

  In 2003 a group of investors purchased a 50-year old office building in Clearwater, FL, as a development site to build ocean-view condos. The investors paid $8.2 million for the property and spent over $2MM in planning and entitlement costs.

  View all our Case Studies

• Breakwater Restructures Debt on Troubled Omaha Office Building

  The owners of Embassy Plaza faced the loss of their property when their loan matured and they were unable to refinance it. They hired two different law firms to try to restructure their loan.

  View all our Case Studies

• Met Center 10 Investors Find a Safe Harbor with Breakwater

  After spending close to $1MM on lawyers and getting nowhere, the 26 tenant-in-common owners of Met Center 10 came to Breakwater Equity Partners with their troubled investment.

  View all our Case Studies

• Breakwater Rescues Shopping Center from Foreclosure in Record Time

  A group of very sophisticated investors took out a $24MM construction loan to build a Southern California shopping center. The completed 75,000 sq. ft. retail space had an original projected value of $36MM, and looked to be a promising investment.

  View all our Case Studies