The offering clears the screen on the buyer’s corrected basis, not the sponsor’s: with the marketed “total capitalization” rebuilt to true project cost, the exit cap widened 50 bps, taxes reassessed, and stabilization pushed to FY3 behind a 9% revenue haircut, the deal still underwrites to a 9.26% yield on cost against a 9.0% screen floor. Eight findings follow; four are corrected in the model, two convert to diligence conditions, two are noted for the committee.
| Item | Screener Read |
|---|---|
| Asset / address | The Harborline Building — 123 Main St, Austin, TX 78701 (Travis County); fee simple, delivered vacant at closing |
| Asking price | $10,800,000 · $128.57/SF of GLA · offers due September 9, 2026 per OM Section 10 |
| Gross leasable area | 84,000 SF · single-story 350′ × 240′ tilt-wall plate · 21′ minimum clear |
| Vintage | 1988 tilt-wall per screener property record¹ |
| Site | 5.50 acres (±239,580 SF) per OM · fully fenced · ±2.7-acre yard¹ |
| Occupancy at closing | 0% leased — seller-occupied under a license terminating at closing; broom-clean delivery |
| Business plan | Small-bay conversion: 77 storage units (66,300 NRSF) + 9 office/flex suites (8,700 SF) = 75,000 rentable SF |
| Conversion program | $2,900,000 budget ($34.52/SF) · 7-month program from permit issuance; permits in municipal review since June 2026 |
| Submarket | Southeast Austin — US-183/SH-71 corridor; OM cites 4.8% infill shallow-bay vacancy and 5.4 SF/capita small-bay supply |
| Seller / broker | Caldwell Distribution Systems, Inc. · Meridian Capital Advisors, exclusive advisor (deal team: Calloway / Okafor / Bergstrom) |
| Conversion sponsor | Kestrel Bay Storage Partners LLC — operating team behind the rent schedule and competitive survey |
| Sponsor headline | Year-2 NOI $1,292,928 · “9.4% yield on total capitalization” of $13,700,000 · implied ≈$20.7M value at a 6.25% cap |
¹ Record discrepancies, immaterial to the screen but flagged for diligence: the OM describes 1987 construction (cover: “1987 Tilt-Wall”; Section 2: “1987-vintage”) while the buyer model property record carries 1988; the buyer model also carries 4.6 acres of site area against the OM’s 5.50 acres. Both resolve at the ALTA survey and re-measure — see Finding 7 and the verdict conditions.
This memorandum is the desk’s first-pass screen of a seller-prepared offering memorandum. It does three things: it grades the deal’s components (Section 2), it isolates the specific claims in the OM that a buyer cannot take at face value — quoting each one verbatim (Section 3) — and it restates the sponsor’s headline economics on the buyer’s corrected basis, tied cell-for-cell to the underwriting model (Section 4). The verdict and its conditions follow in Section 5. Findings are labeled ADJUSTMENT (already corrected in the buyer model), VERIFY (converted to a diligence condition), or NOTED (context the committee should hold).
| Document | Role in This Screen |
|---|---|
| harborline_om.html — Offering Memorandum, Meridian Capital Advisors, 40 pages | The document screened. All quoted language and page cites refer to this OM; finding cards carry anchors into it. |
| harborline_uw.xlsx — buyer underwriting workbook, 11 tabs | The numbers this screen adjusts toward: true project cost, 9% EGI haircut, FY3 stabilization, 6.75% screen cap, 65% LTC debt sizing. |
Five components, graded A–C against the desk’s screening standard. Grades reflect the evidence the OM itself supplies, weighed against the findings in Section 3; a B is institutional-quality with identified corrections, a C-range grade means the sponsor’s assumption was replaced, not adjusted.
| Component | Grade | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Market & submarket | B+ | 4.8% infill shallow-bay vacancy, 5.4 SF/capita small-bay supply against an 8.1 national benchmark, and a real contractor demand base — but every count, survey, and waitlist in the OM is sponsor- or broker-conducted (Findings 5, 8). |
| Basis & pricing | B | $128.57/SF asks below the OM’s own $136–$145/SF as-is warehouse trades — genuine basis cover — but the marketed $13,700,000 “total capitalization” omits $960,600 of real costs; true basis is $14,660,600 (Finding 1). |
| Business plan | B− | Permit-ready scope, three GC bids within 5% of budget, modern roof and 1,600A service — the physical plan is credible. The revenue plan is not yet: Year-2 stabilization and a $32.38/SF blended rate outrun the printed comps (Findings 4, 5). |
| Exit assumptions | C+ | The 6.25% exit cap is the aggressive edge of the OM’s own 6.2%–6.7% small-bay sale-comp band — not its claimed “midpoint” (6.45%). Screener carries 6.75%; the deal still covers cost 1.37x, which is why it survives the downgrade (Finding 2). |
| Sponsor & execution | B | Kestrel Bay brings operating facilities, a scoped budget, and an executable industrial re-let fallback (≈$882,000 NOI per the OM). But the rent evidence is largely self-referential, taxes are carried below reassessment risk, and the OM cites “six operating facilities” on p.5 and a “portfolio of nine facilities” on p.31 — reconcile (Findings 3, 5). |
| Test | Floor | This Deal (Buyer Basis) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stabilized yield on true project cost | 9.0% | 9.26% ($1,357,839 / $14,660,600) | PASS |
| Stabilized value coverage of total cost | — | 1.37x ($20,116,127 / $14,660,600) | CLEARS |
| Spread: yield on cost over screen exit cap | — | ≈250 bps (9.26% vs 6.75%) | CLEARS |
| Downside fallback exists without conversion | — | Industrial re-let — modeled as the bear case in harborline_uw.xlsx | CLEARS |
The 9.0% yield-on-cost floor is the desk screening standard and matches the minimum stabilized debt-yield gate in the buyer model’s Debt Sizing tests. All buyer-basis figures are derived in Section 4 and tie to harborline_uw.xlsx. Fictional throughout.
Total Capitalization $13,700,000 (price + conversion budget) · $163.10/SF […] Yield on total capitalization is computed on price plus conversion budget only, consistent with sponsor convention; closing costs, financing costs, fees, and carry (aggregate $960,600) are excluded from the denominator. […] Total uses 14,660,600 100.0 174.53Open the OM at this anchor →
On the sponsor’s pro-forma, the converted facility stabilizes in Year 2 at approximately $1.29 million of net operating income — a 9.4% yield on total capitalization of $13.7 million — with an implied stabilized value of approximately $20.7 million at a 6.25% small-bay capitalization rate. […] The sponsor’s 6.25% stabilization cap assumption is set at the midpoint of the small-bay evidence.Open the OM at this anchor →
The pro-forma carries $136,000 in Year 1 at the current fictional assessment. Upon completion of the conversion, the sponsor projects reassessment to approximately $8,496,000 — roughly 62% of total capitalization — producing Year 2 taxes of approximately $186,000 at the current rate, escalated 4.0% annually thereafter. The sponsor’s fictional tax consultant regards this as the probable outcome of an income-approach protest posture; purchasers should note that an assessment tracking the full purchase price plus improvements would produce a higher figure, and should model their own tax conclusion.Open the OM at this anchor →
Year 1 reflects the seven-month construction period followed by five months of operations from certificate of occupancy (May 2027); Year 2 is the projected stabilization year. Figures are presented on the sponsor’s basis, before any underwriting adjustment, reserve, or haircut. […] Month 24 (Aug. 2028) — stabilization 90% Held flat thereafterOpen the OM at this anchor →
The blended small-bay rate is derived from the eight fictional comparable leases in Section 6 (SF-weighted average $28.11/SF) with sponsor adjustments for the subject’s materially smaller average unit size and superior functionality: […] 9300 McKinney Falls Pkwy — Bat City Outfitters 5.2 8,500 $26.75 $227,375 Nov-25 60 mo […] 1717 Ferguson Ln — Longhorn Trades LLC 6.0 12,000 $25.50 $306,000 Aug-25 60 moOpen the OM at this anchor →
Yield conventions. Yield on total capitalization equals NOI divided by $13,700,000 (price plus conversion budget); closing costs, financing costs, fees, and construction-period carry (aggregate $960,600 in the page 12 sources & uses) are excluded from the denominator. […] Implied profit at stabilization ≈$6.0M Vs. all-in project cost of $14.66M belowOpen the OM at this anchor →
A rare, fee-simple opportunity to acquire a vacant ±84,000-square-foot Class B warehouse on 5.50 fenced acres in Southeast Austin and execute a fully scoped conversion to 77 small-bay commercial storage units and nine office/flex suites […] Efficiency reflects rentable NRSF (75,000 SF) over GLA. […] All square footages, acreages, dimensions, dates, and dollar amounts are approximations.Open the OM at this anchor →
Without limiting the foregoing, the financial projections set forth in Sections 4 and 5 of this Memorandum — including the small-bay conversion pro-forma, the unit-mix rent schedule, the projected stabilized net operating income, and the projected assessed value — are forward-looking statements prepared by or at the direction of the Seller’s advisor to illustrate one possible business plan for the Property. They reflect numerous assumptions concerning rental rates, lease-up velocity, occupancy, operating expenses, taxes, construction costs, and market conditions, any or all of which may prove incorrect. No representation is made that any projected result will be achieved. Actual results will vary, and the variance may be material and adverse. The pro-forma is presented on the sponsor’s basis and has not been reduced by any underwriting adjustment, reserve, or sensitivity haircut.Open the OM at this anchor →
The table restates each headline economic in the OM on the buyer’s basis. Every screener figure ties cell-for-cell to harborline_uw.xlsx; every delta is computed exactly, with the single exception of the OM’s own “≈$20.7 million” marketing round, carried here as ≈$20,700,000.
| Measure | OM Claim | Screener Adjusted | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total capitalization / project cost | $13,700,000 (price + capex only) | $14,660,600 (all-in) | +$960,600 (+7.0%) |
| Stabilized NOI | $1,292,928 (Year 2) | $1,357,839 (FY3, −9% EGI haircut) | +$64,911 · +1 yr to stabilize |
| Exit / stabilization cap rate | 6.25% | 6.75% | +50 bps |
| Stabilized value | ≈$20,700,000 | $20,116,127 | −$583,873 |
| Yield on cost | 9.4% (on $13.7M) | 9.26% (on $14.66M) | −14 bps |
| Debt (from buyer model) | — | $9,529,390 · 65% LTC | sized in model |
Deltas: $14,660,600 − $13,700,000 = $960,600 (+7.0% of the marketed basis); $1,357,839 − $1,292,928 = $64,911; 6.75% − 6.25% = 50 bps; $20,700,000 − $20,116,127 = $583,873; 9.40% − 9.26% = 14 bps. The OM’s p.12 illustrative sources & uses shows the identical $9,529,390 senior loan at 65% LTC — the sponsor’s financing math already runs on the true $14,660,600 basis its yield convention excludes.
| Component | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Title, escrow & transfer | $75,600 | 0.7% of $10,800,000 price |
| Legal, diligence & third-party reports | $260,000 | Carried input, buyer model Assumptions |
| Financing fees & interest-rate cap | $480,000 | Carried input, buyer model Assumptions |
| Development & CM fees at close | $145,000 | 5% of $2,900,000 conversion capex |
| Closing costs excluded from the OM’s “total capitalization” | $960,600 | Finding 1 |
| Screener Figure | Value | harborline_uw.xlsx Cell |
|---|---|---|
| Closing costs — total | $960,600 | Assumptions!B17 =SUM(B13:B16) |
| Total project cost | $14,660,600 | Debt Sizing!B8 =SUM(B4:B6) |
| Stabilized NOI — base FY3 | $1,357,839 | CF - Base!D31 |
| Stabilized cap rate — base | 6.75% | Assumptions!B36 |
| Stabilized value — base | $20,116,127 | CF - Base!B43 =D31/Assumptions!B36 |
| Recommended total loan | $9,529,390 | Debt Sizing!B20 (65% × $14,660,600) |
Debt structure per the model: $6,480,000 initial funding at close (60% of price) plus $3,049,390 of future funding for capex and carry; 1M Term SOFR + 3.75%, 12 months + two 6-month extensions, interest-only, rate cap purchased at close. Sizing passes the model’s gates — minimum DSCR 1.25x (base FY3), minimum stabilized debt yield 9.0%, maximum as-is LTV 80%, maximum LTC 65%. All figures fictional.
The screen recommends advancing the Harborline Building to full underwriting at the $10,800,000 ask. On the buyer’s corrected basis the economics clear the screen without leaning on a single sponsor assumption: $1,357,839 of FY3 stabilized NOI on $14,660,600 of all-in project cost is a 9.26% yield on cost against the 9.0% floor; stabilized value of $20,116,127 at the 6.75% screen cap covers total cost 1.37x (1.372×); and the industrial re-let fallback — modeled as the bear case in the buyer workbook, and quantified by the OM itself at ≈$882,000 of as-is NOI — bounds the downside without the conversion. The deal survives the removal of the OM’s four optimistic levers — basis, exit cap, taxes, and stabilization timing — which is the definition of a deal worth underwriting. Findings 1–4 are already corrected in the model; Findings 5 and 7 convert to the conditions below.
| Check | Computation | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Yield on cost vs. screen floor | $1,357,839 / $14,660,600 | 9.26% vs 9.0% floor |
| Cost coverage at screen cap | $20,116,127 / $14,660,600 | 1.372× |
| Loan sizing | 65% × $14,660,600 | $9,529,390 |
| Basis correction vs. OM headline | $14,660,600 − $13,700,000 | +$960,600 |