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Agility as a Superpower: How Small Brokerages Can Win
You no longer need the name recognition, the staff, or an oversized budget to win in the debt brokerage business.
The Broker Survival Guide: How You Can Compete (and Win) Against Big Shops
Small commercial debt brokerages can use technology to get an unfair advantage over the industry giants.
1-4 Unit Residential Financing: The Investor's Starting Line
Financing 1-4 unit residential properties means understanding the critical difference between conventional and commercial loans — and knowing where to find the right capital source.
Manufactured Housing Financing: The Hidden Gem of CRE
Manufactured housing communities offer stable, affordable housing — and financing them requires understanding park-owned home ratios, utility structures, and evolving agency guidelines.
Mixed-Use Financing in 2025: How Brokers Can Tackle Complex Deals
Discover how brokers can finance mixed-use developments, especially multifamily-with-retail projects, with practical tips on underwriting challenges, capital sources, and risk mitigation.
Land Financing (and Its Challenges) in 2025
Land loans can be notoriously difficult to secure. Learn how to identify the opportunities in financing raw, entitled, and development-ready land.
Hospitality Financing: What Brokers Need to Know in 2025
Learn how to finance hotels, motels, short-term rentals, and hospitality land — with guidance tailored for commercial mortgage brokers navigating lender expectations, underwriting challenges, and capital sources.
How to Finance Healthcare Real Estate in 2025
Brokering financing for a healthcare deal can seem daunting — it's quite different from most asset types, in many ways — but don't let it put you off. Here's what you need to know.
Self-Storage Financing: Your 2025 Look at This Surprisingly Stable Asset
Self-storage properties are resilient — but often overlooked and underappreciated. Here's how to get them financed.
How to Secure Office Financing in 2025
Financing office real estate today is about navigating risk, lease rollover, and lender skepticism. Here's a practical guide for brokers working with office, medical office, coworking, and land.
Not Dead, Just Different: How to Finance Retail in 2025
Learn how brokers can navigate the evolving retail financing landscape. From grocery-anchored centers to single-tenant NNN deals, we break down what lenders want to see and how to position your deal for success.
Broker's Guide to Financing Industrial in 2025
A broker's guide to financing industrial properties, from warehouses and cold storage to flex space and industrial land—with insights on lender preferences and common challenges.
Broker's Guide to Financing Multifamily in 2025
A broker's guide to financing multifamily properties, from stabilized Class A assets to affordable housing, student housing, and more — with a breakdown of key subtypes and lender fit.
Financing Every Asset Type: A Broker’s Guide to What Works (and What Doesn’t) in 2025
A quick-hit guide for CRE brokers on how lenders view different property types (from multifamily to self storage) with links to full-length deep dives on each asset class.
Nonrecourse Financing: A Broker’s Guide to Fit, Trade-Offs, and Misconceptions
Nonrecourse loans can be a powerful tool (or a costly mistake). This guide helps CRE debt brokers assess when nonrecourse financing truly fits, how to structure the conversation, and what trade offs to flag.
Life Company Loans: Lower Leverage, Longer Term
Life insurance companies may not be the flashiest lenders — but for the right deal, they can offer some of the best execution in the business.
PACE Financing: What It Is and Where It Works
PACE financing isn’t a traditional loan — but it can still be a powerful tool in your capital stack. Here’s how it works, and when it can make sense for your clients.
Mezzanine & Preferred Equity: Filling the Gap
When senior debt won’t cover the full capital stack, mezzanine and preferred equity can help. But each comes with risk — and very different rules of the road.
Hard Money Loans: When Speed Matters Most
Hard money loans are expensive — but sometimes they’re exactly what your client needs. Learn how and when to use them, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
USDA Loans: Strong Options for Rural Multifamily
USDA multifamily loans can be an overlooked but powerful tool for financing affordable housing in rural areas — if you know where and when they work.
SBA Loans: A Broker’s Guide to 7(a) and 504 Financing
Understand the key differences between SBA 7(a) and 504 loans, when they work, and how brokers can navigate the requirements to place these deals successfully.
HUD Multifamily Loans: A Broker’s Guide to 223(f), 221(d)(4), and More
Explore how HUD loans work, when they make sense, and how brokers can guide clients through these complex but powerful executions.
Freddie Mac Multifamily: Navigating Conventional and Optigo
Learn when Freddie Mac works, how it differs from Fannie, and how to avoid deal killers when placing these multifamily loans.
Fannie Mae Multifamily: What Brokers Should Know
Learn how Fannie Mae's multifamily programs work, which borrowers qualify, and how you can successfully package and place these deals for your clients.
Permanent Loans: Long-Term Debt for Stabilized Properties
Understand when to use permanent financing, how it differs from short-term debt, and what you must know as a broker to get these deals closed.
DSCR Loans: How and When to Use Them
Discover how DSCR loans work, when they make sense, and what brokers should watch for when placing these income-driven deals.
Structuring Construction Loan Deals That Actually Close
Learn how to navigate the complexity of construction loans — including what lenders care about, what brokers often overlook, and how to prep your borrower's deal for approval.
The Broker's Guide to CMBS Loans in 2025
Understand how CMBS loans actually work, when to use them, and the risks brokers need to flag before sending a deal down this path.
Bridge Loans: What Brokers Need to Watch Out For
Learn when bridge loans make sense (and when they don't), how to structure them, and the pitfalls you should avoid as a broker.
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Commercial Loan Products: What Every CRE Broker Should Know in 2025
As a commercial mortgage broker, knowing your products isn't optional. Our guide offers you a deep look at each financing vehicle so you can determine what's the best fit for your clients.
Never Run Out of Lenders Again
With more than 7,000 active originators in the Janover Pro network, you can source a multitude of lenders for your deal (no matter the location or asset type) in seconds.
Beyond Saving Time: 5 Business Benefits for CRE Debt Brokers
Keeping all of your commissions while being able to take on even more deals (without burning out!) are just two benefits you can realize.
Proven Results From CRE Debt Brokers
Janover Pro's platform has consistently delivered fantastic results. These case studies exemplify how it can transform your brokerage.
Data-Driven Solutions: How Janover Pro Transforms Lender Sourcing
With more than 7,000 originators offering loans for locations and asset types of all shapes and sizes, finding the right lenders has never been easier (or faster).
Solving the 4 Biggest CRE Debt Brokerage Challenges
There are four major obstacles nearly every debt broker comes into contact with. They're now all solvable.
A 2025 Comparison of Janover Pro and Loanbase
Janover Pro and Loanbase share a lot in common, but there are important differences that a CRE mortgage broker needs to know about.
Janover Pro vs. Axial: 2 Different Platforms for 2 Different Types of Users
Janover Pro and Axial truly do two very different things with only minimal overlap. Here's a comparison of how they operate and who they're geared towards.
How Janover Pro and Gparency Compare in 2025
The main difference between Janover Pro and Gparency is their target users, but how each product executes is also significantly different.
How Janover Pro Compares to CreditUnity
The two platforms have a similar goal, but their means of execution and lender networks are quite different. Find out which may suit you best.
How to Specialize and Build Credibility as a New CRE Broker
Niching down can be a great way to get into the commercial real estate debt game. It does require some careful consideration (but a few great tools can make a major difference).
Why Commercial Loan Timelines Are So Lengthy (and What You Can Do About It)
The wait inherent to most CRE loans can be a shock if you're coming from residential mortgage brokering.
Scale Your Brokerage Without Hiring (Technology vs. Headcount)
It's not always a "one or the other" discussion, but using effective technology can be a serious game changer without driving up your costs exponentially.
Market Your CRE Mortgage Services: Strategies That Work
You'll need a vastly different approach from marketing yourself as a residential loan broker. Here's what you can do.
Co-Brokering CRE Deals as You Build Your Expertise
Co-brokering can be a useful approach for new CRE mortgage brokers, but its uses go far beyond just helping novices.
A Broker's Guide to Making Decisions With Current Market Data
Market data adds key context for your deals, which is important for finding a lender and for retaining your clients.
Financial Analysis for Commercial Properties: Beyond Personal Credit
Commercial property underwriting looks very, very different from residential. Here's what you need to understand.
From Residential to Commercial: Building Your CRE Lending Network
Building your commercial lender network can be a big task. There are ways to make it easier (and ways to make it harder).
Janover Pro vs. DFX: Different Platforms for Very Different Needs
Janover Pro and DFX have (potentially) a tiny bit of overlap, but they are clearly designed for very different customers looking for different types of capital.
Understand the Licensing/Regulatory Requirements for Commercial Mortgage Brokers
In CRE debt brokerage, there's usually a lot less licensing and regulatory hurdles to deal with compared to the residential side. However, where you're doing business matters.
Commercial Mortgage Products Explained: What Resi Brokers Need to Know
Commercial loans are very different from your standard residential loans. Here's a look at many of the major types and how to use them for your clients.
Commercial Property Essentials and What Residential Brokers Need to Know
Lenders look at commercial properties very differently from residential, and so should you. Here's how.
Residential to Commercial: The Complete Guide for Mortgage Brokers Making the Transition
Many commercial mortgage brokers got started on the residential side. The transition isn't an easy one, but you can do it with the right knowledge and tools at your side.
Working With First-Time CRE Investors: A Debt Broker's Guide
It can be a headache working with first-time investors. It can also be a long-term way to build your success as a broker. Here's how to do it.
How to Build a Truly Client-Centric Brokerage
Most brokers are still operating under a transaction-centered approach. It can be far more lucrative (and far better for your clients, too) to pivot.
Finding New Opportunities Within Your Client Portfolio
Once a deal's closed, it's tempting to simply move on to finding a new client. Here's why that can be a costly mistake.
Build Lender Relationships in New Geographic Areas
Expanding your brokerage to a new market can be tough, but it's gotten much easier for brokers with the right set of tools in their toolbox.
A Smoother CRE Deal Process = a More Successful You
Every deal's unique, but every process isn't. Learn what you can do to more effectively use your time to qualify and package deals and find lenders.
Going Beyond Deal Flow as a CRE Debt Broker
Success as a broker might look like a numbers game when it comes to your pipeline, but focusing on quality and hidden opportunities can change the game. Here's how it's done.
Out of Your Comfort Zone: Expanding Your CRE Deal Types
It can be a challenge, but it doesn't have to be scary. There are some excellent tools that take a lot of the pain out of the process.
Bad Lender Data Kills Deals
Bad data makes everything worse, but good, updated lender data can empower you to do so much more, so much better and faster.
How to Structure Your CRE Deal Package to Get Lenders Interested
Your goal: Make it easy for a lender to say yes to your deal. How you structure your deal package matters.
How Do Janover Pro and Relip Compare?
Janover Pro and Relip aren't really competitors, yet it's worthwhile to understand the function each carries out — especially if you're a debt broker working with residential properties.
Comparing Janover Pro with Bridge Marketplace
Janover Pro and Bridge Marketplace take very different approaches to finding lenders. Find out which one makes sense for you.
Finding Business Loans: Janover Pro or Lendio?
Janover Pro and Lendio can both be used for business loans. How they're used — and who they're used by — is completely different.
Comparing Janover Pro With CommLoan in 2025
CommLoan's broker side can work for some, but at its core it's a completely different approach to brokering.
Shopping Debt with Janover Pro & Lev: Key Differences in 2025
Janover Pro and Lev offer platforms that may appear to be similar at a glance. Here's a quick rundown on the major differences between them.
Understanding Janover Pro and LenderSearch by Scotsman Guide in 2025
Though LenderSearch's cost is attractive (it's free), you're likely giving up some key functions that can transform the way you find (and interact with) lenders.
Comparing Janover Pro with StackSource in 2025
How do StackSource and Janover Pro stack up against each other? They do have several similarities, but there are some major differences at the heart of the products.
A 2025 Comparison for Debt Brokers: Janover Pro vs. Finance Lobby
Both platforms can help you out as a commercial debt broker, but there are some major key differences you need to know.