A sponsor is requesting acquisition financing for Rancho San Joaquin Apartment Homes in Irvine CA at 70% LTV. Based on the property's financials, what's the Day 1 DSCR and does this deal meet agency underwriting standards?
No — the 70% LTV request breaks agency coverage before it breaks agency leverage.
At a $80.98M loan on a $115.7M lender-case value (368 units, sizing to the 5.19% Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim MSA multifamily cap rate on a haircut lender-case NOI of $6.00M), Day 1 DSCR is 1.21x on the interest-only basis that actually governs in years 1-2, but only 1.02x on the amortizing basis the agency sizing test runs against. That amortizing test — not leverage — is what fails: Fannie/Freddie's standard box wants 1.25x amortizing coverage and a 1.20x IO floor, and this loan clears IO (1.21x ≥ 1.20x) and clears straight LTV (70% ≤ 75% max) but misses the amortizing floor by 23 points and misses the 8.5% debt yield floor too — actual debt yield is 7.41%.
| Test | Floor/Limit | Result at Request | Pass/Fail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amortizing DSCR | 1.25x | 1.02x1 | FAIL |
| Interest-Only DSCR | 1.20x | 1.21x1 | PASS |
| Debt Yield | 8.5% | 7.41%1 | FAIL |
| Loan-to-Value | 75% max | 70.0%1 | PASS |
The binding constraint is the amortizing DSCR test, which caps supportable proceeds at $65.98M — 57.0% of lender value, an $15.0M (18.5%) cut from the ask. The debt-yield test is nearly as tight ($70.6M max), so cutting proceeds is the only fix here — extending amortization can't rescue a debt-yield shortfall, and the model can't find an amortization term that holds the DSCR floor at the requested size either.
That's Approve-with-Structure territory, not Decline — 1.02x is above 1.00x, so the collateral clears its debt service, it just doesn't clear the agency cushion at this leverage. Two other things cap the verdict regardless of proceeds: sponsor financials weren't provided with the request (verdict caps at Approve with Structure pending guarantor review), and recovery at a 20% value decline comes in at 88.0% of par, below the 90% threshold lenders typically want as a cushion. On the upside, the maturity math works: even funding the full $80.98M ask, the balance amortizes to $71.2M by year 10 against $80.9M of stressed refi capacity — the refinance clears with room, so this is a sizing problem today, not a repayment problem at the back end.
Bottom line: counter at ~$66.0M (57% LTV) or equivalent — the $80.98M ask at 70% LTV doesn't meet the agency box on coverage even though it's within the leverage limit. The credit model behind these numbers is attached; T12 operating detail beyond gross potential rent and vacancy wasn't on file for this property, so the lender case leans on LA-OC MSA and South Irvine submarket benchmarks for expenses, other income, and market rent — a sponsor T12 would sharpen this materially, particularly on the expense side where the benchmark-driven OpEx ratio (51.6% of lender EGI) is doing most of the work in that 1.02x.
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