Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation

Real estate investment trust that makes and invests in commercial property loans

What Ares Commercial Real Estate does

Ares Commercial Real Estate is a specialty finance company that lends money to owners, operators, and sponsors of commercial properties in the United States. Instead of owning buildings, it originates and invests in loans and other debt tied to commercial real estate. It is structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT) and is based in New York.

How Ares Commercial Real Estate makes money

It earns interest income on the commercial real estate loans and debt investments it originates or buys, such as senior mortgages, mezzanine loans, and preferred equity. As a REIT, it passes most of its taxable income to shareholders as dividends.

Products & services

• Senior mortgage loans
• Subordinate debt
• Mezzanine loans
• Preferred equity investments
• Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS)