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Good afternoon. It's Tuesday, September 8, 2026. With the 10-year Treasury holding near a 20-month high, the entire capital stack is now priced off stubborn rates rather than a coming cut, and the September Fed debate has narrowed to a hold or a hike. Also in today's edition: garden supply risk, a shaky but uneven Florida, a fall deal season that broke script, private credit filling the gap, and institutional capital gearing up.

Today's focus: Capital Stack Tuesday. What does the full financing picture look like for operators and investors right now?

The whole stack is pricing off a stubbornly high risk-free rate. The 10-year Treasury is holding near 4.79%, close to a 20-month high, keeping Fannie Mae multifamily agency debt in a roughly 5.65% to 6.50% range depending on size and leverage, while the Fed holds the federal funds rate at 3.50% to 3.75%. In the CMBS market, conduit AAA spreads sit near 70 basis points over the benchmark and BBB minus near 415, a stack that still funds well-located, well-leveraged deals but punishes thin coverage and story credit, while equity is demanding real going-in yield rather than betting on compression. The next FOMC meeting is September 15 to 16, with August CPI due Friday, September 11 as the last major read beforehand, and after a hot August jobs report markets now price a hold-to-hike debate rather than a cut. The read for capital: build the stack on today's agency execution and a coverage cushion that holds whether the September move is a hold or a hike, not on cheaper debt that may not arrive.

Rate data via Trading Economics, Fannie Mae, Trepp, and CME FedWatch Tool.

GlobeSt reports that a widening performance gap is opening between supply-exposed garden apartments and harder-to-replicate mid and high-rise assets, as new construction concentrated in garden product leaves those owners more exposed to rent and occupancy risk, per GlobeSt. For investors, the takeaway is that asset type has become part of the basis decision, not just location, because product most easily replicated by new supply carries the most downside when deliveries land nearby. The discipline is to underwrite garden deals to a softer rent path and a conservative going-in basis, reserving conviction pricing for assets and submarkets where new supply is genuinely hard to add.

Read the full story at GlobeSt

HousingWire reports that while Florida's housing market looks shaky on the surface, Orlando tells a more nuanced story, with affordability pressure and softening for-sale demand coexisting alongside pockets of resilience outside the vacation segment, per HousingWire. For multifamily investors, it is a reminder that Sun Belt weakness is not uniform, and that metro and submarket selection matter more than a state-level headline as the supply wave clears unevenly. The discipline is to underwrite Florida exposure market by market, separating oversupplied vacation-driven pockets from employment-anchored submarkets where renter demand holds.

Read the full story at HousingWire

Bisnow reports that a summer of shifting interest rate expectations and new legislation upended the CRE playbook, leaving the industry to navigate a more complicated fall deal season than it anticipated, per Bisnow. For investors, the lesson is that the second-half thesis many underwrote in the spring, built on expected rate relief, needs revisiting now that a September cut is off the table and a hike is in play. The discipline is to re-underwrite pipeline deals to the current cost of capital rather than the one assumed a quarter ago, since the financing backdrop, not the business plan, is what shifted.

Read the full story at Bisnow

HousingWire reports that Truss Financial is scaling a hybrid model with a new direct lending platform, adding in-house underwriting and funding for non-QM and DSCR investor loans to cut turn times, per HousingWire. For real estate investors, it is another sign that private and specialty credit continues to expand into the space agency and bank lenders have tightened, keeping capital available for smaller and non-stabilized deals. The discipline is to weigh the speed and flexibility of these platforms against pricing and terms, since faster, higher-cost debt only helps when the deal's coverage can carry it.

Read the full story at HousingWire

Commercial Observer reports that CIM Group hired PIMCO veteran Adam Lerer as a managing director of investments, adding senior investment talent as the firm positions for the next phase of the cycle, per Commercial Observer. For investors, institutional hiring into investment and acquisitions roles is a quiet signal that large allocators expect to deploy capital, not sit on the sidelines, as pricing resets. The discipline is to read staffing moves at major platforms as a leading indicator of competition for well-located assets, and to secure basis before that institutional capital fully re-engages.

Read the full story at Commercial Observer

How today's news connects to the Fourth Wall Capital multifamily investment thesis

Capital Stack Tuesday shows a financing picture set by a stubborn risk-free rate rather than a coming pivot, with the 10-year near a 20-month high, agency debt still in the high fives to low sixes, and CMBS spreads funding only well-covered credit. Against that backdrop, garden supply risk, uneven Sun Belt demand, and a fall deal season that broke from its spring script all point the same way. The advantage belongs to investors who set basis on today's stack, not the one they hoped for in the spring.

Fourth Wall Capital underwrites the asset, not the rate path, pricing to today's agency execution and a coverage cushion that holds whether September brings a hold or a hike. With private credit expanding and institutional hiring signaling capital preparing to re-engage, we stay focused on conservative basis in supply-protected submarkets where in-place cash flow carries the return. The edge stays with disciplined buyers positioned before the competition fully returns.

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