NEW YORK CITY—Most platforms focus on larger deals and havetypically avoided the $1-million to $10-million range ofopportunities, believing there is more risk involved and higherunderwriting costs. Adam Petriella, EVP of capitalmarkets at Coldwell Banker Commercial Alliance,takes a closer look at Sutherland's REIT platform and atcoordinating the various entities to deliver services to theentrepreneurial commercial real estate investor and owner-user.

GlobeSt.com: Sutherland was formed in 2009 toacquire RMBS and ABS and more recently, seems to be focused onsmall-balance commercial loans. Tell us how the platform evolved inthe interim.

Adam Petriella: Since 2008 throughSept. 30, 2014, our manager (Waterfall AM) has reviewedapproximately 169,600 performing, sub-performing and non-performingSmall Balance Commercial and SBA loans, priced approximately 85,00of these loans and acquired more than 6,500 SBC and SBA loans withaggregate unpaid balance of approximately $2.0 billion for anaggregate purchase price of approximately $1.3 billion. Our managerhas also acquired more than $225 million in UPB of SBC ABS notesover this time period.

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