Commercial lenders - Definition and Overview

A commercial lender offers loans backed by hard collateral. In most cases this is real estate, but it can also include factoring, non-conforming assets, or other sources of collateral.

Commercial lenders include commercial banks, mutual companies, private lending institutions, hard money lenders and other financial groups. These lenders typically have widely varying standards on which they base their loan criteria and evaluate potential borrowers.

The commercial loan industry is most often accessed through brokers, who provide an evaluation of a borrower and then recommend the loan to a number of different commercial lenders whom they feel will be most likely to fund the borrower's request.

See also

• bridge loan
• hard money lender
• mortgage

External links

• Commercial Lenders (http://www.avatarfinancial.com) - more detailed information.
• Directory of Commercial Lenders (http://www.relibrary.com/commercial_lenders/nationwidelenders.asp), a list of nationwide commercial lenders in the United States.