$15 Million Life Company Multifamily Permanent Loan

By Trevor Damyan, Commercial Mortgage Broker at Commercial Lending Solutions

A $15 million life insurance company multifamily permanent loan represents one of the most competitive long-term cost of capital options available to institutional and trophy multifamily sponsors. Life co allocators concentrate on stabilized Class A and trophy multifamily at 55 to 65 percent LTV in primary markets with strong sponsors. The pricing trade-off is 5 to 25 basis points inside agency at meaningfully lower leverage and 15 to 25 year fixed-rate term certainty that agency programs rarely match.

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What a $15M Life Company Multifamily Permanent Capital Stack Looks Like

$15M life co multifamily perm loans are funded as a single senior loan from a life insurance company. The decision is between competing life cos based on existing sponsor relationships, pricing tier, term length, and structural flexibility.

Capital Source Rate / Cost Size / LTV Notes
Life company (relationship tier) 5.40 to 5.85% (10-year fixed) $15M / 55 to 60% LTV Tightest pricing for established sponsor relationships
Life company (15-year) 5.55 to 6.00% (15-year fixed) $15M / 55 to 60% LTV Long-term term lock at modest spread over 10-year
Life company (20-year) 5.75 to 6.20% (20-year fixed) $15M / 55 to 60% LTV Multi-decade hold cost of capital lock
Fannie / Freddie (comparison) 5.55 to 6.05% (10-year fixed) $15M / 70 to 75% LTV Higher leverage trade-off; agency cap and program structure

Pricing reflects active CLS CRE quote pipeline as of April 2026. Specific deal pricing depends on sponsor, property, and structure.

Who Closes a $15M Life Company Multifamily Permanent Deal

Typical $15M life co multifamily perm sponsors are institutional and family office multifamily owners with deep CRE track records and existing life co relationships. Sponsor net worth typically $25M to $250M; liquidity $5M to $50M. The deal is usually a refinance of a maturing life co loan, an acquisition with planned long-term hold, or a recapitalization. Sponsors targeting life co perm typically have multi-decade hold horizons (10 to 30 years) and value the rate compression and term certainty over agency leverage.

A Real $15M Example

On a 132-unit Class A trophy multifamily in Beverly Hills, the sponsor refinanced a maturing life co loan into a new 15-year fixed life co perm at 5.78 percent, 60 percent LTV, $14.4M loan amount, with 5 years of interest-only and yield maintenance prepayment. The loan was placed with a top-15 life co with whom the sponsor had three prior loans dating back 14 years. Pricing reflected the relationship tier (15 basis points inside the lender's standard quote for a new sponsor), and the 15-year term locked in cost of capital through 2041 across what the sponsor anticipated as a multi-decade family ownership hold.

Anonymized. All deal references protect borrower and lender identity.

$15M Life Company Multifamily Permanent FAQ

Life cos have long-duration liabilities (life policies, annuities) that match well to long-duration multifamily mortgages. Their cost of capital on 50 to 65 percent LTV trophy multifamily is below the agency programs, and they pass that pricing through to relationship borrowers.
Yes, but typically not at the relationship tier. New life co borrowers get the lender's standard quote based on the deal and the sponsor's broader CRE track record, but the lowest pricing tier requires multiple prior loans with clean payment histories.
Most life cos quote 10, 15, 20, and 25 year fixed-rate terms. Some go to 30 years for established sponsors. The 15 and 20 year terms are most differentiated from agency, which typically caps at 10 to 12 year fixed for most lenders.
Almost never. Life co allocator discipline typically caps multifamily at 60 to 65 percent LTV with a 1.30x to 1.40x DSCR floor. Sponsors needing higher leverage move to agency.
60 to 90 days from application for established sponsor relationships. 90 to 120 days for new relationships.
Yes. Life co multifamily perm is non-recourse with bad-boy carve-outs, identical to agency on the recourse axis.

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