Much value may be created in coming up with efficient lending solutions to enhance returns for the financing of high-quality real estate assets or baskets of real estate assets. Senior secured whole loans on real estate assets may lend themselves well to securitization or partial refinancing. Even more so if this that can be done with a financial institution with a low regulatory risk weight. Lending transactions created in the private market may from time to time be suitable for public markets which potentially creates an additional spread benefit. Astra´s experience in both public structured credit markets and capital markets provide a key edge in execution.