Customer Testimonials

We operate our business primarily in asset-rich major metropolitan markets. We have a strong presence throughout the United States including New York, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, San Francisco and Chicago. We are gaining position internationally with our European subsidiary in London.

Our customers represent significant players in high-end commercial real estate. It is a segment of the market where customers require large-scale, innovative, custom-tailored financing alternatives...iStar Financial’s specialty. It is also a market where first-class service and support are expected – an expectation iStar sets out to meet or exceed every working day. In fact, over half of our financing transactions come from repeat customers.

Atrium Holding Company / John Q. Hammons

Southwest Value Partners
   
 

Atrium Holding Company / John Q. Hammons

“The only real estate transactions we pursue are those too complex or too isolated to attract waves of bidders. In those instances, having access to intelligent and responsive capital is a remarkable competitive advantage.

Capital is absurdly plentiful these days, yet no investment bank, no lender, no hedge or opportunity fund, was willing to roll up their sleeves and help us decipher the unusual capital and partnership structures required to take publicly traded John Q. Hammons Hotels, Inc. and its 44 upscale hotels private.

Over the course of an entire year, iStar’s seasoned professionals worked intensively to resolve a seemingly endless whack-a-mole puzzle of inter-related tax, indenture, estate plan, ground lease, and public shareholder issues. In the end, iStar committed a multi-phased $425 million highly structured capital package to enable the privatization, recapitalization, and the future development of an additional 40 Hammons hotels.

I could never have closed the most intriguing transaction of my career without iStar’s capital and intellectual contributions.”

Jonathan D. Eilan
Chairman and CEO
Atrium Holding Company

  
 

Southwest Value Partners

"It has been our pleasure to work repeatedly with the real estate financing experts at iStar Financial. Their team of professionals continues to impress us with their speed, flexibility and creative custom-tailored solutions. Our experience has clearly had a positive impact on our business."

Mark Schlossberg
Managing Director
Southwest Value Partners