Strategic Alliance Mortgage, LLC (SAM)
DLTB is a founding member of Strategic Alliance Mortgage, LLC (SAM), which incorporated in 1996, with eight original member-companies. SAM, is a network of 21 independently owned commercial real estate finance and investment companies, with 32 offices in cities across the country, located in 20 states. Principal markets include Boston, New York, Washington/Baltimore, the Carolinas, Atlanta, Miami, Birmingham, Nashville, Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, Tulsa, New Orleans, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Portland. There are over 130 individual loan producers working within the SAM network, each with the ability to access real-time information in respect to immediate market conditions. In 2006, SAM's new loan production exceeded $14 billion, ranking it as the third largest originator of commercial real estate finance and equity opportunities in the United States.
The network's informational system, DealsHelp, includes, in addition to up-to-the-minute quotations on working transactions, access to more than 250 capital sources with investment appetites ranging from the $500,000 convenience store to the $100 million "life style" project. Additionally, DealsHelp provides immediate data relative to pertinent Treasuries, Swaps, LIBOR/Prime pricing, forward-funding pricing, corporate spreads, and CMBS spreads.
SAM's combined loan administration portfolio is approximately $32 billion.
From an industry standpoint, SAM is widely recognized as the premier platform of its type in the country, primarily as a result of combining the entrepreneurship its member-companies possess, in their respective local markets, with the benefits of conducting business on the national stage.