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Refinancing a Phoenix office building

A Phoenix office refinance starts with the note already on the building, the leases that roll, and whether a bank, a life company, a conduit, or a bridge lender will read office at all. Capital Market Funds arranges that request. It does not publish a vacancy rate.

Reviewed by Craig Hoebing, Capital Market Funds, LLC - CBK-2007014 - Commercial Mortgage Banker · Updated October 2026

A refinance starts with the note already on the property

  1. Step 1

    Read the existing note

    Prepay, lockout, yield maintenance, or defeasance decides whether a refinance is even available this quarter. A coupon on a website does not.

  2. Step 2

    Separate rate-and-term from cash-out

    Rate-and-term stays on the refinance page. Cash-out has its own underwriting because proceeds leave the property. We do not blur them.

  3. Step 3

    Match the source to today's occupancy

    Life company, bank, CMBS, agency, or HUD only if the asset is already a permanent file. If it is not, the honest answer is bridge with a takeout.

Phoenix market context

Sky Harbor and the freeway grid
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport sits inside the City of Phoenix. Industrial and hospitality requests near the airport are a different rent roll from Desert Ridge, Deer Valley, the Camelback Corridor, or Ahwatukee. The freeway grid is context for which submarket the address is in. It is not a closing. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

Office refinance pressure is discussed, without a table of maturities repeated here, on Arizona CRE loan maturities in 2026. Read that note for the public commentary it cites. This page does not restate a dollar of maturing debt and does not add a figure of its own. What changes the Phoenix file is the building: who the tenants are, when the leases end, what tenant-improvement and leasing-commission reserves a new lender will require, and whether the sponsor can bring cash if proceeds do not cover the payoff. Cash brought to a refinance is cash-in refinance. Reserves for the next lease are tenant improvements and leasing reserves.

According to the Wikipedia article on Downtown Phoenix, opened October 28, 2026, downtown is the central business district, and the city defines it as the area between 7th Street and 7th Avenue, from McDowell Road on the north to Buckeye Road on the south. That box is not the Camelback Corridor and it is not Midtown. Those are separate office locations. The corridor page is Camelback Corridor. Citywide office is Phoenix office. A refinance of a Phoenix building that is not an office is Phoenix refinance. Do not use that page's examples as if they were downtown towers.

Lender types do not share an appetite for office

A bank may hold a smaller Phoenix office loan on its own balance sheet, with recourse the committee sets. A life company generally wants calmer income and a sponsor who can live with that lender's lock and prepay. A conduit loan is a different servicing life after closing, with more consent steps. A debt fund or a bridge lender is the conversation when the rent roll is in transition and a permanent holder will not start. None of those sentences is a leverage quote. Bridge capital comes from private investors. Capital Market Funds does not lend its own paper and is not a bank.

Rollover is the office-specific risk. A loan that looks fine on today's rent can fail the next lender's test if two floors expire inside the term and the reserve is thin. Send the rent roll with expiration dates, not a one-line net operating income.

Cash-in is a possible answer, not a failure label

If the payoff, the prepayment, and the new proceeds do not meet, the sponsor may bring cash. That is a structure. It is not a comment on the sponsor. Read the existing note before you assume a refinance is even available this quarter. Prepay, lockout, and defeasance live in that note. This page does not restate them as a formula.

Capital Market Funds is not a Fannie Mae DUS lender. Office is not an agency apartment. The request is taken in Scottsdale under NMLS 1445066. No tombstone on this page is a promise that office proceeds look like another property type.

Who will still read a Phoenix office refinance

Who will still read a Phoenix office refinance
SourceWhen it fits
BankA bank can be the reader of a smaller Phoenix office refinance the bank will hold.
Life CompanyA life company fits when the Phoenix office income is already calm enough for that box.
CMBSA conduit is a different path, with servicing and consent rules that outlast the closing.
Bridge & PrivatePrivate bridge is for a Phoenix office rent roll that is not ready for a permanent holder.

No Phoenix office refinance is singled out here

Do not treat an industrial or multifamily payoff as evidence of office proceeds.

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Phoenix office refinance questions about rollover

Is a Phoenix office refinance the same loan as any other Phoenix refinance?

No. Office adds rollover, tenant-improvement reserves, and a thinner set of lenders than a leased industrial building. Use the general Phoenix refinance page for a different property type.

Does downtown Phoenix include the Camelback Corridor?

Not on the definition Wikipedia quotes from the city: 7th Street to 7th Avenue, McDowell to Buckeye. Camelback and Midtown are separate notes. The loan follows the address.

Will you state a Phoenix office vacancy rate or a debt-service coverage number?

No. Neither number is on this page. The maturity note is linked so you can read what it actually cites. Send your rent roll.

What if the new Phoenix office loan will not pay off the old one?

Then the file may be a cash-in refinance, a bridge, or a conversation that is not ready. Read the cash-in note. Bring the payoff and the prepay language.

Talk to Craig

Send the Phoenix office rent roll with expiration dates

Craig will see that the request started on the Phoenix office refinance page.

This form is not a loan application and not a commitment to lend. Direct: (480) 495-8072

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