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Construction lenders have a healthy appetite for apartmentdeals. Despite the strong construction activity across the country,construction lenders feel comfortable lending on apartment deals,even with the threat of a recession coming in 2020. In fact,construction lenders are also showing a general openness toalternative multifamily products.

"We are generally seeing good appetite for multifamily, and thisseems to be a good time for construction lenders to feel reasonablysafe," Scott Choppin, founder of the UrbanPacific Group of Cos., tells GlobeSt.com. "We are allspeculating when a downturn is coming, and lenders are vacillatingbetween feeling safe and anticipating a recession. But, today, theyare producing good loan volumes."

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.