Better Terms. Greater Certainty of Execution. Faster Closings.
Skylatus helps hospitality and multifamily sponsors secure the best available capital structure through a strategic, competitive, and fully managed wide-reaching capital raising process.
We bring more than 20 years of experience as owners, lenders, investment committee members, and former CPAs — giving us a clear understanding of how capital providers think, what they prioritize, and what causes deals to stall.
Through our proprietary network of 10,000+ lenders and 2,000+ equity investors, we target the right capital sources, create competition, negotiate terms, and manage the process through closing.
Your team stays focused on the deal. We handle the capital.
What Skylatus Delivers
- Better economics through a wide-reaching competitive capital raising process
- Greater certainty of execution through capital provider–style underwriting and upfront positioning
- Faster closings with outreach, diligence, negotiations, and closings managed for you
- Access to 10,000+ lenders and 2,000+ equity investors
- Senior-level capital markets execution without adding permanent overhead
Trusted by Experienced Hospitality & Multifamily Real Estate Sponsors
Sponsors choose Skylatus because they want a firm that treats their deal with the same urgency and attention to detail that they do.
“Skylatus found the one lender in the market who could deliver terms every local lender said were impossible. No one else puts in this level of effort or delivers these kinds of results.”
“We have been developing properties since 1980 and have never encountered such a great mortgage broker such as Randy Efron. They truly function like a “right hand man.” Skylatus introduced us to capital sources that we didn’t have relationships with at the time. Time is valuable and Skylatus’ professionalism and accessibility allowed me to put my trust in them while I focused my time elsewhere.”
“I’ve been working with Skylatus for over 5 years and they’ve closed over 60 deals for me during that time. At this point, Skylatus handles nearly all of our financing. Skylatus is an integral part of my team and I highly recommend working with them.”
“I can leverage Skylatus more than other capital brokers because their team is comprised of former investors and lenders. With Skylatus, capital raising takes less of my time and the market that they create results in better capital terms. I plan on working on many more projects with Skylatus.”
“Skylatus functions like a CFO for their clients rather than a broker. Skylatus’ offering memorandums and underwritings are the best that I’ve seen throughout my career. In fact, executive management at the bank has echoed those thoughts. We’ve actually used Skylatus’ un-edited offering memorandum in a loan committee meeting which is something that I’ve never seen before.”
“Randy Efron and I first worked together in 2017. One of the first investments in our commercial real estate fund was a ground-up self-storage development for which Randy provided the underwriting. In spite of its challenges through construction and lease up (a hurricane and a pandemic) that investment returned an IRR of roughly 20% to our investors over 5 years. Through that experience and subsequent transactions, I developed a deep respect for the thorough, fundamental approach to financial underwriting that Skylatus brings to its deals.”
Hospitality and Multifamily Capital. Focused Execution.
Every lender relationship, equity relationship, underwriting model, and market read we bring to your transaction is concentrated in the sectors where we have the deepest experience: hotels and multifamily.
We know which capital providers are active, how they underwrite, what structures they prefer, and where they can stretch. That focus helps us move faster, tell a stronger story, and create a more competitive process from day one.
Hospitality Financing
Multifamily Financing
Built by Someone Who Has Been on Every Side of the Deal
Randy Efron founded Skylatus after spending more than a decade in New York City deploying debt and equity capital on behalf of private equity firms, institutional lending platforms, and owner-operators — approving deals, rejecting deals, executing business plans for deals, and learning exactly what separates a fundable transaction from one that never closes.
That experience shapes how Skylatus gets deals done. We already know what a lender's investment committee will ask, what will concern an equity investor, and where a deal's weakest points are before we ever go to market. That preparation — combined with a vast proprietary network of relationships built over 20 years — is what gets deals funded on better terms.
Experience
| Trinity Hotel Investors | Capital raising, acquisitions & asset management of 22 hotels |
| Walker & Dunlop Commercial Property Funding | Real estate private equity lending platform co-owned by Fortress and Walker & Dunlop — CMBS, bridge, mezz, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, & HUD Financing |
| Hudson Realty Capital | Real estate private equity debt fund |
| GNP Development | Real estate development |
| Lennar | Land acquisition & development |
| Deloitte | Public accounting |
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor's in Accounting — University of South Florida
- Master's in Real Estate Finance — New York University
- Certified Public Accountant (currently inactive)
Why Experienced Sponsors Choose Skylatus
Skylatus brings clients the most competitive capital while focusing on surety of execution and fast closing timelines.
Former Owners and Lenders — Not Salespeople
12,000+ Capital Sources Built over 20 Years
More Than a Broker. A Capital Markets Senior Finance Exec.
What Senior-Level Capital Markets Execution Looks Like
Financing rarely moves in a straight line. When challenges arise in underwriting, diligence, deal structure, lender and investor feedback, or negotiations, Skylatus works alongside sponsors to solve problems, protect momentum, and keep qualified capital engaged. Below are real examples of what that looks like in practice.
Deal Advocacy When Capital Providers Say No
- Wrote an 11-page letter to an investment committee that successfully reversed a prior denial
- Convinced a bank CEO to close a construction loan during a construction lending moratorium
- Secured lender acceptance of a guaranty from a 10% owner without guarantees from majority owners
- Got lenders and investors comfortable with first-time GCs, cost-plus contracts and lack of bonding
Hands-On Diligence and Closing Support
- We read and redline every page of loan and joint-venture agreements to protect our clients
- We proactively obtain Phase 1 and other third party bids on behalf of our clients to ensure they are getting the best pricing
- We work directly with appraisers to achieve target valuations
- Solicited bids from 5 general contractors and built a spreadsheet to compare them on a consistent basis
Capital Process Management From Start to Finish
- Prepare detailed weekly reports with real market feedback — not generic lender matrices
- Built financial models, business plans, and lender narratives for complex transactions
- Handle questions and answers from lenders and investors without our clients’ involvement
- Personally drove 15-passenger vans and coordinated helicopter tours so equity investors could understand markets and deal strategy firsthand
Creative Structuring for Complicated Deals
- Structured master leases to finance multifamily assets through hospitality-oriented capital sources
- Aggregated scattered vacation rental properties into a single hotel financing structure
- Structured pari passu debt and equity funding arrangements to improve sponsor economics
- Helped hotel owners evaluate brand options and business plans to support financing execution
Real Transactions. Real Outcomes.
Not every deal fits neatly inside the box. The examples below show how Skylatus has helped sponsors navigate complex financing situations where structure, lender & investor selection, and hands-on execution made the difference.
Saved an Equity Raise
When an LP rejected a new GC mid-raise, we wrote an 11-page investment committee memorandum, flew the LP's team to Florida, and personally drove a 15-passenger van between job sites.
Result: The LP approved the contractor and the deal closed.
Secured a Construction Loan After a Moratorium
After a bank's commitment letter expired and the bank instituted a construction lending moratorium, we worked with senior leadership to obtain an exception.
Result: Closed as the only construction loan approved after the moratorium.
Aggregated 10 Vacation Rentals into One Hotel Loan
Combined ten separately operated properties into a single financing structure, allowing them to qualify for a hotel loan rather than individual residential financing.
Result: Better terms, single close, significantly improved economics for the sponsor.
Built a Full Business Plan from a Concept
A client came with nothing more than an idea for a unique property acquisition. We developed the full business plan, underwriting, and capital strategy.
Result: Successfully raised the required capital and closed the transaction.
Capital Markets Insights for Hospitality and Multifamily Real Estate Sponsors
Practical resources on hotel and multifamily financing, deal structuring, capital stack strategy, and lender selection — written from the perspective of practitioners who structure, negotiate, and close transactions.
- HotelHotel Financing: Options, Lenders & How Underwriting Works›
- MultifamilyMultifamily Construction Financing: 2026 Developer's Guide›
- Build-to-RentBuild-to-Rent Financing: Debt & Equity Capital for BTR Communities›
- HotelHotel Syndication vs. Self-Funding: A Sponsor's Guide›
- UnderwritingDebt Yield: What It Is and How Lenders Use It›
Working on a hotel or multifamily transaction?
If you're evaluating an acquisition, refinance, recapitalization, renovation, repositioning, or ground-up construction and want to think through the capital strategy before going to market, Skylatus can help.