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| Generally speaking, I think we have seen hospitality perform exceptionally well |
| But to the extent we can see good deals, you are going to see us originating and growing our earnings power |
| I think we’ve got a very good process |
| And we are originating very attractive investments that we believe will be meaningfully accretive to our earnings |
| I think that does lead to upside and potential dividend |
| Despite the smaller portfolio, we are encouraged by the consistency in our prepayments |
| So, we have got – and we are in this nice position |
| Lastly, we are pleased with FBRT’s strong performance in 2023 |
| Also, we remain confident in the continued outperformance of our existing portfolio, given our relatively outsized exposure not only to just multifamily, but newer vintage, higher quality multifamily in larger liquid markets |
| And we expect our earnings power to be enhanced as we grow our portfolio in 2024 |
| We remain confident and resilience of our assets in our portfolio |
| Probably the biggest benefit everybody has had over the last year and change has been the rise in rates as far as earnings power hasn’t helped asset quality in many cases, but it certainly has helped our earnings power |
| I think we are well positioned to be a very choosy issuer |
| Our asset management team has meaningfully improved the asset quality in a short period of time and the property has positive leasing momentum |
| However, we are actually quite bullish about the market opportunity for FBRT right now given our substantial liquidity position and our limited office exposure |
| We believe this will provide us with a competitive advantage in 2024 and continue to play offense when most other lenders are on the sidelines |
| I mean I think we clearly have upside in earnings power |
| So, again, pretty positive on the sector and even more positive on the lower leverage credits that we have been writing |
| And I think more importantly, we are bullish on the credits that we are writing in the sector because a lot of them are generally lower leveraged loans that are either acquisition loans or cash in refis |
| We are also seeing green shoots in the conduit market, which has historically been an earnings enhancer |
| There continues to be an exceptional amount of liquidity in the multifamily market as evidenced by the robust levels of repayments that we have been receiving and by the endless inquiries we are receiving from investors looking to acquire loans as a mean to obtaining title |
| Performance has been great |
| I think just as you have heard from the nature of our portfolio, we feel relatively good |
| We are long-term bullish on the fundamentals of multifamily at the asset level, and we’ll continue our focus on our portfolio originations on newer vintage assets and larger market |
| We’ve been successful in resolving loans and extending or modifying when appropriate |
| So, we are very happy to also get a new client out of the opportunity |
| If we raise, it will be in the context of things feel really, really strong |
| Our earnings comfortably covered our dividend and produced a competitive risk adjusted return |
| We anticipate funding another $78 million tomorrow and have a robust pipeline through the remainder of the quarter |
| It will be with a strong message to the market |
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| So as frustrating as is for you guys, it’s frustrating for us as well |
| The business-oriented travel segment is still slow to recover |
| Book value was down in the fourth quarter to $15.77 from $15.82 |
| Our earnings were modestly lower in the fourth quarter versus the third quarter of this past year |
| Competition remains thinned out and the regional bank bid has not returned |
| We continue to believe this weakness is more a reflection of overleveraged borrowers likely taking losses on late 2021 and early 2022 acquisitions and is not reflective of weakness at the asset level |
| There has been talk in the market about current weakness in multifamily properties |
| In closing, it’s clear that our industry is dealing with significant headwinds |
| But certainly, it’s a headwind of noise to that adjusted book value number in any given quarter |
| This was a fairly frustrating process, but as you alluded, all is well that ends well |
| And then many others are cutting dividends or sort of certainly not having an increasing dividend conversation because of potential asset problems |
| You’ve repeatedly highlighted before this call as well that borrower behavior is very difficult to predict |
| So, it was very surprising to us |
| I mean, could that begin to subside towards the back half of the year, or if you are growing, if you are really growing the portfolio, will that still be kind of a headwind for GAAP earnings? I realize you are backing up on core |
| Our increase to the general CECL provision was a largest driver of this decline, resulting in $0.06 per share reduction to book value |
| But as I’ve talked about for several quarters and even again today, borrower behavior it’s very, very difficult to predict |
| During our quarterly review process in the fourth quarter, loans were downgraded to a 4 based on the measurements I just described |
| Borrower behavior remains difficult to predict |
| We have seen leisure-oriented hotels kind of blow through peak RevPAR numbers from 2019 |
| It’s obviously been light |
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