How To Help Loan Retention At Your Bank
When is the right time to refinance an existing commercial real estate loan on your books? Refinance too early and you most likely forgo a larger credit spread. Refinance too late and the borrower seeks additional competition. In previous analysis we showed that the average spread between refinancing with and without competition is about 40bp. Thus, we advocated putting a retention program in place that covers any loan above 1.2x debt service coverage that does not have some form of prepay protection.
