Lender Match

Lender Match shows which lender categories — banks, credit unions, debt funds, agency, CMBS, bridge — usually or sometimes fit a given deal. Property type, loan size, and loan purpose change the mix. It shows categories, not a count of lenders.

What it does

  • Most-likely first-response lender categories for your property type, geography, and loan purpose
  • Category mix with the filters shown — not a single mystery number
  • Usually-fits and sometimes-fits labels for each category
  • Category-level preview by design: individual lender identities appear only inside the platform after a deal is submitted

Worked example

Set the profile to multifamily, $2M to $10M and acquisition. Lender Match shows 3 of 8 categories as usually fits: Agency, CMBS and Regional Bank. It shows the other 5 as sometimes fits: Life Company, Bridge / Private, SBA, HUD / FHA and Credit Union. Now change the loan purpose to Bridge / Value-Add. The list narrows to Regional Bank and Bridge / Private as usually fits and Credit Union as sometimes fits. The loan purpose reshuffled the categories without any change to the property or the loan size. The tool shows categories only, so it names no lenders and gives no count of them.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Lender Match show actual lender names?

The public tool is deliberately category-level: it shows which types of lenders (banks, credit unions, debt funds, agency, CMBS, bridge) usually or sometimes fit your scenario, not individual identities or a lender count. Named matching happens inside the platform once a deal is submitted.

What changes the lender mix?

Property type, loan size, and loan purpose. A stabilized multifamily refinance draws a different category mix than a ground-up construction loan, and the preview shows that shift as you change the scenario. Geography matters for which named lenders see a submitted deal; the public preview does not vary by state.

Is this the same matching the platform uses?

No. The preview is a fixed set of category rules of thumb and does not query the lender network. The platform matches a submitted deal against live lender programs using the deal's own figures, which is where named lenders come from.

What kind of lender is most likely to finance my commercial property?

It depends on the property type, the loan size and the loan purpose. Lender Match sorts eight lender categories into usually fits and sometimes fits for the profile you set: agency, life company, CMBS, regional bank, bridge or private, SBA, HUD or FHA, and credit union. Change any of the three inputs and the sorting updates.

Why does a bridge loan match different lenders than a purchase loan?

Bridge and value-add loans are short-term and asset-based, so the lenders built for speed and flexibility move up and the long-term fixed-rate categories move down. Set the loan purpose to Bridge / Value-Add and the list reorders. Set it back to Acquisition and the permanent-debt categories return.

What happens after I see my lender categories?

You can submit the deal. YieldStack is an AI-native commercial mortgage brokerage that arranges financing for commercial real estate investors, and it presents 5–8 matches from 20,000+ loan programs. It costs Zero upfront to submit a deal and review offers; YieldStack's broker fee is 0.50–1.00% of the loan amount and is paid only at closing.

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