Apollo Real Estate Finance Inc is a trust that deals with real estate investments. Its main activities include originating, investing in, acquiring, and managing first-mortgage loans, subordinate financings, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and other debt investments related to real estate.
The majority of the portfolio consists of subordinate loans and first-mortgage loans. It includes various property types such as residential, retail, healthcare, office, mixed-use, hotel, industrial, multifamily, securities, and others. The highest property values are residential properties and hotels. Over 1/3 of the properties are located in New York City, while the remaining properties are spread across different regions of the United States and other countries.
They focus on generating current income from debt investments while seeking to preserve capital. They believe that their ability to create value over time is closely linked to the quality and performance of the target assets and their sponsors. As such, they are focused on making investments in attractive real estate leverage financings with creditworthy borrowers who will be able to service the debt.
They believe the experienced team and access to Apollo’s proprietary market insights, relationships, and resources allow them to identify attractive opportunities which do not always require a high loan-to-value ratio or leveraged capital structure. This allows them to take security positions in higher-quality real estate loans than their competitors and generate superior risk-adjusted returns for our stockholders.
They believe their ability to selectively invest in real estate debt securities with attractive risk/return profiles enhances the potential for long-term capital appreciation and dividend income for their stockholders.
By leveraging Apollo’s global platform, they can capitalize on a wide variety of financing opportunities across multiple geographies, property types, credit quality levels, and capital structures. This, in turn, enables them to employ a prudent approach to investing while seeking to take advantage of attractive opportunities that may arise from time to time.
They believe the combination of experienced professionals, along with Apollo’s proprietary insights and resources, creates an integrated platform for executing structured debt investments across multiple sectors worldwide.