Retail & Shopping Center Financing: How Lenders Underwrite
Quick answer: Retail lenders underwrite the tenancy, not just the building. The metrics that matter: the anchor tenant and co-tenancy (does losing the anchor trigger other leases to break?), tenant sales per square foot and occupancy-cost ratio (rent ÷ tenant sales — low is healthy), tenant credit and weighted-average lease term (WALT), and the center’s […]
