Question 1

What makes a Fort Collins commercial or multifamily asset a good permanent-debt candidate?

Accepted Answer

A signed, income-producing lease against an institutional or education-anchored tenant base, more than any published cap rate. The metro's stabilized-tenant story runs through UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital, Colorado State University and its research facilities, Poudre School District and Platte River Power Authority, employers whose payroll doesn't move with the housing cycle. No metro CRE vacancy, rent or cap-rate figure has been sourced for Fort Collins in any asset class, so a permanent quote here is built from your executed leases and tenant credit, not a market survey.

Question 2

How does purpose-built student housing near CSU fit permanent financing now that the occupancy cap is gone?

Accepted Answer

It's the asset class most directly reshaped by the repeal, because the private-market competitor is no longer capped at three unrelated tenants. Colorado's HOME Act (HB24-1007, CRS 29-20-111) preempted local occupancy limits based on familial relationship effective July 1, 2024, and Fort Collins City Council repealed its own U+2 ordinance on second reading July 2, 2024. That doesn't mean unlimited heads per house: bedroom egress, minimum room area and septic or wastewater capacity still cap occupancy under building and fire code. CSU's enrollment reached an all-time high of 34,412 students in fall 2025 with record 87.9% first-to-second-year retention, the demand base behind a purpose-built asset underwritten to those code limits rather than the old cap.

Question 3

Does a metro district levy change the tax line I should underwrite on a stabilized Fort Collins property?

Accepted Answer

It can, and it's a Larimer County fact worth pulling parcel by parcel before you size a loan. The certified core tax stack on a Fort Collins parcel runs about 95.952 mills across the county, school district, city, library and health district, but Larimer's metro districts sit on top of that: in tax year 2024 they certified $50,879,401 of property tax revenue, nearly matching every city and town in the county combined at $69,795,326. Individual district levies range from single digits into the 80s and 90s, and the levy lands entirely on the non-school side of the assessment split. Talk to your CPA about how a specific district's levy lands on your hold, and pull the parcel's tax area from the Larimer Assessor before underwriting rather than from a listing sheet.

Question 4

Vacant land or a to-be-redeveloped parcel is on the title. Does that change how it's assessed for tax?

Accepted Answer

Yes: commercial property and unimproved residential lots in Larimer County assess at 27%, not the roughly 6.25% to 7.05% residential rate. On an otherwise identical value, that's close to four times the residential property tax line, a real carry cost while an asset sits unstabilized ahead of a permanent takeout. It's also why we bridge a repositioning or lease-up first and place the permanent structure once the rent roll is signed, rather than sizing permanent debt against a property that isn't generating income yet.

Question 5

What if my Fort Collins commercial property isn't stabilized yet?

Accepted Answer

Get it leased up first, then refinance into permanent debt once the rent roll is signed. We place both sides in-house: a bridge loan carries the property through lease-up or repositioning, and once it performs, we shop the file across agency multifamily programs, insurance companies and wholesale lenders for the long-term structure that fits your hold. Because no Fort Collins CRE cap-rate or vacancy data has been sourced, the refinance is priced off your actual leases and tenant credit at the time you're ready, not a published market rate.

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