CaliberCos Inc., established in 2009 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, functions as a real estate investment and asset management firm with a specific focus on middle-market assets. The company caters to a sophisticated client base, including high-net-worth, accredited, and qualified investors, family offices, and smaller institutions, by offering a comprehensive range of alternative investment solutions. Through its dedicated in-house asset services group, CaliberCos develops, oversees, and maintains proprietary investment vehicles such as middle-market funds, private syndications, and direct investments. Its core investment strategy targets commercial real estate, Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs), private equity ventures, and various debt facilities.
Caliber Completes $3.4 Million Refinance of Corporate Notes and Secures the Right to Retire an Additional $9.1 Million at a Discount
Caliber (Nasdaq: CWD) has completed the refinancing of approximately $3.4 million of its corporate promissory notes and secured six-month rights to retire an additional approximately $9.1 million of notes in full for approximately $7.3 million in cash, or 80% of unreturned capital. Together the moves address roughly $12.5 million of notes, including about 54% of the $21.1 million of unsecured corporate and convertible notes the company disclosed as maturing within twelve months.
Approximately $2.9 million of principal was exchanged for new five-year amortizing notes bearing 6.0% interest, down from a roughly 11.5% weighted average, and about $0.6 million was converted into perpetual Series AAA Convertible Preferred Stock. The completed steps remove approximately $0.2 million of annual interest expense, rising to about $1.3 million per year if the discounted payoff is exercised in full, which would also produce an expected gain of approximately $1.8 million.
Caliber has not yet raised all of the cash required to exercise the payoff right. Expected funding sources include asset-level realizations, roughly $38 million of capital invested alongside investors, and an estimated $95.7 million of carried interest that the company says may never be realized, and any equity-based funding would dilute existing holders.
CEO Chris Loeffler said the program should leave all corporate notes repaid or refinanced into long-dated maturities, which management believes will strengthen the balance sheet and make Caliber more attractive as a real estate asset manager.