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Bella Farr

@isabella_farr

private markets editor @business | formerly @trdny | words @nytimes @politico | alum @columbiajourn @nyushanghai | aussie 会说中文 | views are my own

Joined November 2017
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I'm so excited to share that I'm starting at @business as an private credit editor on Monday, helping drive coverage of one of the most interesting sectors in the financial world today. That means, today is my last day at @trdny, and covering real estate.


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BlackRock is overhauling its private credit business as the world’s largest asset manager races to catch up to competitors in the booming market trib.al/lJakLXo


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Payment company Cherry is sounding out investors for a bond that would be tied to “buy-now, pay-later” loans for cosmetic surgery and other aesthetic treatments trib.al/tD0Hzr0


Madison Realty (NY-based lender) took control of 20 sites — six development parcels and 14 apartment complexes — across LA County. Really the first huge MF distress event to hit LA

Neil Shekhter, the prominent Los Angeles landlord behind WS Communities, has lost about half of his portfolio to lenders. therealdeal.com/la/2024/01/18/…



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Neil Shekhter, the prominent Los Angeles landlord behind WS Communities, has lost about half of his portfolio to lenders. therealdeal.com/la/2024/01/18/…


Adam Neumann’s Flow is facing a lot of the same problems other syndicators/aggressive 2021 multifamily buyers are facing: struggling to make enough from the properties to meet soaring debt payments.

Adam Neumann’s apartment startup Flow has yet to go live. But two of his earliest acquisitions are already facing a cash flow crunch. His solution: Recruit fresh investors therealdeal.com/national/nashv…



NEW: About a month after I reported Shangri-La Industries had defaulted on loans tied to seven Project Homekey motels, the state of California has filed a lawsuit against the developer alleging fraud. therealdeal.com/la/2024/01/08/…


Some news! I'm now the West Coast Bureau Chief for @trdny Still reporting, but also thinking about new ways to cover real estate (resi, commercial, development) in LA and SF. Super excited — and pls send tips, deals, etc to isabella.farr@therealdeal.com


"A slow-moving train wreck." NEW: spoke to @danjmcnamara about all things related to CMBS distress for the latest episode of @trdny's Deconstruct. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…


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“I just did not understand how everybody was making the numbers work, because I was looking at the numbers and they just didn’t work for me." Here we go. Now we're getting into the snake oil bottling plants. Brad Sumrok. Maker of millionaires (600+). Mentor to Jay Gajavelli and…

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For @trdny's latest cover: @suzannahcav and I dug into one of the biggest lenders behind multifamily syndicators — groups that were aggressively buying apartments across the country using cheap debt and trying to jack up rents to flip the buildings. therealdeal.com/magazine/natio…


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"Reading Brookfield’s financial statements is a journey into the multiverse. There are multiple versions of Brookfield staring back at you, and Brookfield gets to decide which one it wants to be at a given moment." My latest with @isabella_farr therealdeal.com/magazine/natio…


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Multifamily lads: We too have seen the purported Tides/AMC letter. If you have more info/intel and would like to share, please reach out- DMs open. Thanks! 🧺 🍿


I looked at Downtown LA's office market for the latest issue of @trdny's magazine — “If you’re in trouble, you’re in big trouble. If you’re not, you’re trying not to be.” therealdeal.com/magazine/natio…


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In my deepest dive yet, I tried to get to the bottom of one of the biggest stories in Texas real estate and politics in recent memory. What happened, and what is going to happen, to Nate Paul? On the cover of The Real Deal's July issue: Judgment Day therealdeal.com/magazine/natio…


🚨 Brookfield missed a payment on a $275 million loan tied to one of its core assets in Downtown LA (and the firm defaulted on two other towers earlier this year) therealdeal.com/la/2023/05/16/…


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cnn.com/videos/us/2023… @jmoorheadcnn and I followed Diocelina as she searched desperately for her family at the border


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