NASDAQ:SUNS Sunrise Realty Trust Q1 2026 Earnings Report $8.30 0.00 (0.00%) Closing price 05/22/2026 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$8.28 -0.02 (-0.18%) As of 05/22/2026 04:10 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Massive. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Sunrise Realty Trust EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.35Consensus EPS $0.29Beat/MissBeat by +$0.06One Year Ago EPSN/ASunrise Realty Trust Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$10.27 millionExpected Revenue$6.18 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$4.09 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/ASunrise Realty Trust Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2026Date5/14/2026TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateThursday, May 14, 2026Conference Call Time10:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsSunrise Realty Trust's Q2 2026 earnings is estimated for Thursday, August 6, 2026, based on past reporting schedules, with a conference call scheduled at 10:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Sunrise Realty Trust Q1 2026 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 14, 2026 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Sunrise Realty Trust reported distributable earnings of $0.35 per share in Q1 2026, which covered its $0.30 dividend. Management said results benefited from loan fees, new deal closings, and repayments that allowed capital to be recycled at attractive returns. Neutral Sentiment: The portfolio remained fully current and performing, with $397.1 million of commitments and $299.3 million of principal outstanding across 15 loans at quarter-end. As of May 8, the portfolio had $380.2 million of commitments across 14 loans, with a weighted average yield to maturity of about 12.4%. Positive Sentiment: The company continued to emphasize its focus on transitional real estate loans in growing Southern markets, where it believes it can structure deals better than lenders chasing stabilized assets. Management said this niche is creating a strong pipeline and should benefit as more bridge and construction loans come due. Neutral Sentiment: During the quarter, SUNS originated or participated in two notable loans, including a $48 million B-note in the Graduate Hotels refinancing and a short-term bridge loan on Silver Mountain Ranch that was quickly repaid. The company also highlighted healthy sponsor inquiry activity, though some pipeline deals paused temporarily when capital markets volatility picked up. Neutral Sentiment: The Thompson San Antonio hotel loan was foreclosed, and management said it is now being marketed by Eastdil with multiple attractive bids received. They expect a resolution over the next couple of quarters, but said the asset is unlikely to generate income until it is sold or refinanced into a note structure. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallSunrise Realty Trust Q1 202600:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Sunrise Realty Trust first quarter 2026 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, we'll open up for questions. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please be advised that today's call is being recorded. I would now like to hand it over to our first speaker, Gabriel Katz, Chief Legal Officer. Please go ahead. Gabriel KatzChief Legal Officer at Sunrise Realty Trust00:00:35Good morning, and thank you all for joining Sunrise Realty Trust earnings call for the quarter ended March 31st, 2026. I'm joined this morning by Leonard Tannenbaum, our Executive Chairman, Brian Sedrish, our Chief Executive Officer, and Brandon Hetzel, our Chief Financial Officer. Before I begin, I would like to note that this call is being recorded. Replay information is included on our April 15th, 2026 press release and is posted on the investor relations portion of our website at sunriserealtytrust.com, along with our first quarter 2026 earnings release and investor presentation. Today's conference call includes forward-looking statements and projections that reflect the company's current views with respect to, among other things, market developments, our investment pipeline, anticipated portfolio yield, and financial performance and projections in 2026 and beyond. These statements are subject to inherent uncertainties in predicting future results. Gabriel KatzChief Legal Officer at Sunrise Realty Trust00:01:25Please refer to Sunrise Realty Trust most recent periodic filings with the SEC, including our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed earlier this morning for certain conditions and significant factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements and projections. During today's conference call, management will refer to non-GAAP financial measures, including Distributable Earnings. Please see our first quarter earnings release uploaded to our website for reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures with most directly comparable GAAP measures. The format for today's call is as follows. Len will provide a general business and capital markets overview. Next, Brian will cover our view on the state of the commercial real estate lending markets, discuss our existing portfolio, and provide an outlook for our investment pipeline. Brandon will provide an update on our financial position. After that, we'll open the lines for Q&A. Gabriel KatzChief Legal Officer at Sunrise Realty Trust00:02:16With that, I will now turn the call over to our Executive Chairman, Leonard Tannenbaum. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:02:21Thank you, Gabe. Good morning, and welcome to our first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. For the quarter ended March 31st, 2026, SUNS generated distributable earnings of 35 cents per share of common stock, which covered our dividend of 30 cents per share. The quarter was positively impacted by a short-term loan on a Colorado property, new deal closings, and the payoff of a loan to a multifamily property in Dallas. We were pleased with our first quarter results, which reflected the continued earnings power of our portfolio, the benefit of construction and other existing commitments funding during the quarter, and our ability to recycle capital through repayments and new originations at an attractive risk-adjusted return. During the quarter, we completed the foreclosure of our loan secured by Thompson San Antonio, a 162-key Class A hotel in Texas. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:03:19We believe we are now better positioned to evaluate value-maximizing alternatives since the asset is not subject to the former sponsor's hotel management agreement and brand affiliation. Shortly after taking title, we engaged Eastdil to market the asset, and the first round of bidding recently concluded. We received multiple attractive offers and expect the process to continue over the upcoming quarters. The ultimate transaction could take the form of an all-cash sale or a sale that includes lower leverage seller financing from SUNS and its affiliates, combined with a meaningful equity contribution from the buyer. Based on the interest to date, we remain positive about our ability to resolve the investment in a timely manner. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:04:12On the capital markets front, in March, we completed the expansion of our senior secured revolving facility to $165 million with the addition of Customers Bank, which committed an additional $25 million to our facility. With that, I'll turn it over to Brian to discuss the market environment and walk through our portfolio in more detail. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:04:34Thank you, Len, and good morning. Before turning to the portfolio, I wanted to briefly discuss what we are seeing in the commercial real estate lending market and why we believe SUNS is well-positioned. Over the last two years, we have worked to construct a loan book that capitalizes on our team's expertise in providing capital to sponsors of transitional real estate business plans with projects situated in growing southern markets backed by competent owners. Our team seeks to primarily invest in transactions that require a lender which can underwrite complex business plans and create the necessary structure to ensure downside protection. These types of deals are where our team believes it can create alpha. Within the broader transaction market, we continue to see a meaningful divide between acquisitions and refinancings. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:05:29Acquisitions where the cost basis has been reset to today's market are generally where the underwriting works most cleanly and where we have been most active. Pricing on refinancings is harder to establish because relatively few comparable assets actually trade, which creates a wide range of outcomes. We find a subset of refinancings interesting, specifically situations where an incumbent senior lender is forcing the sponsor's hand to be taken out. Capital markets activity in the quarter was more volatile than recent quarters, driven primarily by geopolitical developments. Treasury yields moved meaningfully higher and securitization spreads widened before partially retracing. From our seat, sponsor inquiry activity remained healthy throughout the period, but several transactions in our pipeline paused for several weeks while sponsors and their counterparties reassessed cost of capital. By quarter-end, activity had largely normalized. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:06:33Importantly, because we underwrite to unlevered returns rather than relying on capital markets execution to manufacture our yield, this kind of episodic volatility has limited impact on the deals we have already closed and modest impact on our forward pipeline. Across the markets we lend into, the picture in the Southern United States is not uniform, and we think this nuance matters in how we deploy capital. Florida and the Southeast more broadly remain constructive across most asset classes, supported by sustained in-migration and continued employment growth. The major Texas markets are showing signs of tightening on the residential side, with concession burn-off underway in select submarkets. Some of the more recently overbuilt Western Sun Belt markets are still working through excess supply, and many have not yet reached an equilibrium. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:07:32We remain disciplined about where we deploy and have leaned into reset basis opportunities in the markets that have begun to stabilize. On the competitive landscape, regional banks have continued to step back into smaller, simpler, stabilized deals, and the larger debt funds and commercial mortgage REITs have continued to compete aggressively for stabilized multifamily and industrial loans, where spreads have tightened back to the mid 200s over SOFR in many instances. That is not where we play. Our focus remains on transitional business plans where the deal requires structuring, sponsor selection, and asset-level conviction, not just an attractive cost of funds. Said differently, in a market where many lenders are competing on price, we continue to focus on the less trafficked business plans that require operational and development expertise and a sound understanding of local market dynamics. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:08:28The other dynamic worth highlighting is the growing wave of stress in 2021 and 2022 vintage bridge and construction loans coming due. The market is going to need to clear billions of dollars of this paper through sales, modifications, and recapitalizations over the next two years. That is not a headwind for SUNS. We did not originate that vintage at scale. Our book is overwhelmingly post-rate hike paper at reset basis, and the disgorgement cycle is precisely what creates the acquisition opportunities for the sponsors that we lend to. Turning to the portfolio, in the first quarter of 2026, the TCG Real Estate platform originated $91 million of loans, of which SUNS committed $62 million across two loans. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:09:15These included $14 million of a $22 million senior bridge loan to finance the acquisition of an 11,000 acre portion of Silver Mountain Ranch in Colorado, which was originated, closed, and exited during the quarter, and $48 million of a $69 million B note as part of the $406 million refinancing of a 15-property portfolio of Graduate by Hilton hotels for AJ Capital Partners. Over the period, SUNS funded $90 million of new and existing loans and received $70 million of repayments, including full repayment on 2 loans, Silver Mountain Ranch and Bohéme. As of March 31, 2026, the SUNS portfolio had $397 million of commitments, with $299 million funded across 15 loans. Subsequent to quarter-end, Jovie Belterra was fully repaid. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:10:13Looking ahead, we remain focused on disciplined origination, active portfolio management, and prudent capital allocation. We believe the current market favors lenders with flexible capital, structuring expertise, and selectivity around basis, sponsorship, and downside protection. SUNS is well-positioned to capitalize on this environment, balancing growth with risk management and long-term shareholder value. With that, I will now turn the call over to Brandon Hetzel, our Chief Financial Officer. Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:10:48Thank you, Brian. For the quarter-ended March 31, 2026, we generated net interest income of $7.3 million and distributable earnings of $4.7 million or $0.35 per basic weighted average common share, and had GAAP net income of $4.3 million or $0.32 per basic weighted average common share. The quarter included one-time fees from two investments, a $400,000 fee on the short-term Silver Mountain Ranch Bridge loan and a $1.2 million prepayment fee on the Bohéme loan. We believe that providing distributable earnings is helpful to shareholders in assessing the overall performance of SUNS business. Distributable earnings represents net income computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding non-cash items such as stock compensation expense, unrealized gains or losses, and the provision for current expected credit losses. Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:11:42We ended the first quarter of 2026 with $397.1 million of current commitments and $299.3 million of principal outstanding spread across 15 loans. As of May 8th, 2026, our portfolio consisted of $380.2 million of current commitments and $292.1 million of principal outstanding across 14 loans. All loans are current and performing with a weighted average portfolio yield to maturity of approximately 12.4%. Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:12:15As of March 31st, 2026, our CECL reserve was approximately $550,000, or 19 basis points for our loans at carrying value. As of March 31st, 2026, we had total assets of $330 million, and our total shareholder equity was $182.5 million with a book value of $13.50 per share. For the quarter ending March 31st, 2026, the Board of Directors declared a $0.30 dividend per share outstanding. The dividend was paid on April 15th, 2026 to shareholders of record as of March 31st, 2026. With that, I'll now turn it back over to the operator to start the Q&A. Operator00:13:00Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star one one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. One moment for our first question. Our first question will come from the line of Gaurav Mehta from Alliance Global Partners. Your line is open. Gaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global Partners00:13:25Yeah, thank you. Good morning. I wanted to go back to your comments around the pipeline and wanted to get some more color on what you guys were seeing for acquisition financing versus refinancing. Within the current pipeline, what's the sort of mix between different kind of property types? Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:13:45Sure. It's Brian. Thanks for the question. The pipeline, you know, as mentioned in the prepared remarks, there has definitely been. It's clear that the banks have returned on more of the most stabilized of assets, multi-family, industrial, existing assets, standing assets. Spreads have come in, as you know. That has not been our focus. What we're seeing a lot of is the opportunity and a big void as a result of these lenders focusing and some of our competitors focusing on industrial and multi stabilized. A big opportunity and void in the markets for more transitional product. That could include multi-family. It does include multi-family. We're seeing more transitional assets. Certainly some in the bifurcation between acquisition and refinancings. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:14:37On the refinancing side, we're seeing opportunities where the sponsors need to inject existing incremental equity to see them through to the stabilization period. That's, there's a series of deals that we're focusing on there. Across asset classes, anything with any degree of complexity is really creating a separation from our side and others. Those have really been the big areas that we've been focusing on. That's what really makes up the majority of our pipeline. Gaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global Partners00:15:03Okay. Thanks for that color. As a follow-up on regions in the prepared remarks, you talked about Florida and some Southeast markets seeing demand, and then you highlighted some markets still seeing supply. I guess in terms of capital deployment, should we expect that you would be more focused on Florida and other markets where you're seeing demand or you could be open to other opportunities in some other markets where there's still supply and maybe sort of reset the opportunities that you talked about? Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:15:32I would expect the majority of our deals will continue to be in those southern states that we have focused on. That's really been our focus. That's where we think we have a bit of a competitive advantage. That's the path of growth, and that continues to be the case. We're seeing that now more pronounced than we've seen in a while now. As we mentioned on the West Coast, there's been certainly in some of the Sun Belt states, there's been some supply overhang. We're seeing that absorb in the markets that we're focusing on. That's the majority of our pipeline, majority of what we're doing. You know, as always, opportunistically, we will find interesting deals away from that. I would expect a huge majority in our core markets. Gaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global Partners00:16:16Okay. Thanks. Last question on the REO. Is that asset currently being marketed for sale? I know earlier you said that you guys received few offers and it could be all cash sales or you could do some lower leverage financing. Have you accepted the offer or is it still in the market? Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:16:35Good question. It's still in the market with Eastdil. We haven't accepted an offer. We're evaluating a number of opportunities, and we will tell you as soon as we accept an offer. Gaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global Partners00:16:47Okay. Maybe lastly, on the balance sheet, the investment in real estate JV, that's the REO asset that you talked about? Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:16:56Yes, correct. Gaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global Partners00:16:58Okay. Thank you. That's all I had. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:17:00Thank you. Operator00:17:02Thank you. Our next question will come from line of Jade Rahmani from KBW. Your line is open. Jason SabshonAnalyst at KBW00:17:11Hi, it's Jason Sabshon on for Jade. Thanks for taking the question. To start, do you expect to generate any near-term income from the San Antonio JV? You mentioned a few possible outcomes, but is there one that you see as most likely, and what would the timeline to exit be? Thanks. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:17:31One of the things that I've given back to the quarter is, on the negative side, even though I think we did have a very good quarter, is we didn't get any income from the hotel. Probably not getting income from the hotel this quarter, in the current quarter. In the next quarter, we'll have to see because it's, I think it does get resolved, in a reasonable timeline, but I think it's over the next couple of quarters. We don't anticipate any income from the hotel until it gets sold or we have a note attached to it. Jason SabshonAnalyst at KBW00:18:09Got it. Thanks. Separately, it was just you touched on it, but could we just have some more color on what drove up interest income during the quarter? I know you mentioned $400,000 fee in a short-term loan and $1.2 million prepay fee, but and there was also the new hospitality loan. Was there anything else? It was up $3.1 million quarter-over-quarter, so just curious. Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:18:35Yeah. You just touched on the majority of the increase. As mentioned, $1.2 million prepayment fee related to the Bohéme loan. That also included accretion of unaccreted OID related to that loan. Second was the short-term bridge loan we did to Silver Mountain Ranch, which contributed about $400,000 to the interest income. On top of that is the new investment, which was about $48 million into the Graduate Hotels investment. Those three drivers were the main increase as well as additional construction fundings of our construction loans on the normal cadence. Jason SabshonAnalyst at KBW00:19:23Got it. Thanks. On the short-term loan, just curious, how large was that loan? Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:19:33The entire loan was approximately $21 million. SUNS portion was about $14 million. That loan was outstanding for about one week. Jason SabshonAnalyst at KBW00:19:45Got it. Thanks. Lastly, just on forward originations, what would be the target mix of senior and subordinate going forward? Currently, you're around 75% senior, so just curious. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:20:01Yeah. I would think it would be somewhere in that range. The majority of what we're doing is on the senior side. We'll selectively find interesting, relatively low levered sub debt tranches, which we have in the past. Sometimes those are senior lenders approaching us and asking us if we wanna team with them. We're doing more and more of that now, as we create more relationships with seniors. We'll continue to have the majority, super majority be on the senior side. Jason SabshonAnalyst at KBW00:20:30Thanks. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:20:32Sure. Operator00:20:33Thank you. Our next question will come from the line of Timothy D'Agostino from B. Riley Securities. Your line is open. Timothy D'AgostinoAnalyst at B. Riley Securities00:20:43Yeah. Hi, good morning. Thanks for taking the question. Congrats on the quarter. Looking at Slide 11 in the deck, you know, looking through the deals sourced all the way down to SUNS loan funded. You know, over the past couple of quarters, deal selectivity has kind of hovered around this 1.5%. I guess, you know, you provide a lot of commentary on call, but I guess, what would you need or want to see in the market for your selectivity to go up? You know, so I know you talked about balancing growth versus risk, but just kind of understanding at what point, like, what would you need to see for you to start selecting more deals and growing the portfolio? Thank you. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:21:23Yeah, I think it's two things. One, none of us in the market being optimistic have thought about or been as happy of the sort of collapse in the market in terms of, you know, really interesting opportunistic loans at big discounts, right? That hasn't presented itself to any great size, much to everyone's chagrin. I mean, if that sort of happens more when we have seen banks more willing to enter into DPO with existing borrowers, where we then can team up with those borrowers, that certainly would create it. The other big thing is just generally more acquisition volume. What happened in the last quarter that we saw is acquisition volume increased pretty significantly. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:22:12I think if that's sustained, right, and rates stabilize and start coming down, which is obviously, it's unclear right now, but that will eventually happen. That will bring about more investment activity. That will create more of an opportunity for us, and particularly, in those transitional type loans, where we're, again, just to repeat myself, we're seeing a big divergence in the majority of the competitors who are focusing on more stabilized assets. Those transitional type deals, which will happen more and more as rates come down, will create many more opportunities for us, and that, I think, will increase our volume for sure. Timothy D'AgostinoAnalyst at B. Riley Securities00:22:52Okay, great. That's super helpful. I guess just across the markets you're in, I know you also speak to, you know, making opportunistic investments. I guess, have there been any new markets that stand out to you all? Just trying to get a better sense of what you're looking at and, you know, what's interesting and what's out there. Thank you. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:23:13Sure. Well, I hate to be boring, but the reality is that the deals that have been most interesting have been in those southern markets that we've continued to collectively all talk about. It's interesting, data I recently saw is I thought there was gonna be a lull in, pick your markets, Florida, parts of Texas, or let's just focus on Florida for a second, where, you know, you had that massive in-migration that was more getting back to equilibrium. Recently, I've seen a big uptick in the continued migration into Florida. I mean, we have a big development, as you guys know, in Florida, Panther National, home sales. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:23:56We talk to that group significantly or frequently, and we've seen just a tremendous increase in volume of homeowners wanting to migrate here. It seems like that's picked up a bit, and that has knock-on effects for retail demand and for rental demand. Those are the markets that we still see are interesting, and they're boring in the sense that we continue to do them, but those are the ones that are fun. Selectively, it's out, as I mentioned earlier, it's opportunistically, there are deals we're seeing in other markets that are interesting out west. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:24:32For the most part, we're sticking to what we're seeing as the real interesting opportunities. Timothy D'AgostinoAnalyst at B. Riley Securities00:24:39Okay. That, that's great commentary. Thank you so much, and congrats on the quarter again. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:24:45Thank you. Operator00:24:47Once again, star one one for questions. Our next question will come from the line of Tyler Batory from Oppenheimer. Your line is open. Tyler BatoryAnalyst at Oppenheimer00:24:56Good morning. Thanks for taking my questions here. Just first one for me on the outlook this year. There were some one-time items obviously positively impacting Q1, contributing to that $0.35 distributable EPS. What's a good run rate to think about in terms of distributable earnings this year? Are you still thinking in line with the dividend or covering the dividend? Is that a good way to think about things? Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:25:22What? Do you wanna answer that, Brandon? Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:25:25Sure. You know, we won't give specific guidance on projections for distributable earnings throughout the year, but we will say that, you know, from time to time, we'll have various fees that can positively impact our income, and that's normal course of business for these types of loans. You know, as you mentioned, the Q1 distributable earnings benefited from those two short-term items. The Board doesn't underwrite the dividend based on one quarter at a time. They look at the medium-term earnings power of the portfolio, you know, including expected fundings and existing commitments, repayments, leverage capacity, and forward origination. We won't give specific guidance going forward, but we did wanna point out those short-term items, so you could back into the run rate. Tyler BatoryAnalyst at Oppenheimer00:26:13Okay. Appreciate that. In terms of repayments, $70 million odd this quarter, a couple of those were well before maturity too. Just trying to understand why, if that's maybe a bigger trend that might be going on or playing out in the portfolio, in terms of some loans being repaid earlier than expected. Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:26:35Yeah, sure. It's actually only one that was repaid early, the Bohéme loan. The rest of the $70 million was one, the short-term loan that was in and out during the period, as well as repayments and draws around the Panther National loan. That's a revolving loan where they'll draw and repay and that gets grossed up into those repayment numbers. Tyler BatoryAnalyst at Oppenheimer00:26:59Okay. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:27:00In other words, we're not seeing anything abnormal. Tyler BatoryAnalyst at Oppenheimer00:27:03Okay. That's what I was trying to get at. Thank you. Just the last one for me. The San Antonio issue, you know, I think it snuck up on us. I just wanted to be sure when you look across the rest of the portfolio that there's nothing that is concerning, nothing that's you know, that you're watching closely in terms of a potential negative outcome similar to what happened in San Antonio. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:27:30Yeah. I get that it did sneak up on some people. It did happen relatively quickly as well. We do expect a resolution in the coming quarters and not too bad a resolution. I don't think right now there's nothing else on watch list, not one other thing on watch list. You know, things are obviously doing a little bit better, a little bit worse, but everything is right within the tolerances of our plan. Tyler BatoryAnalyst at Oppenheimer00:28:02Okay. Very helpful. I'll leave it there. Thank you. Operator00:28:08Thank you. I'm not showing any further questions in the queue. I will now turn it back over to Brian Sedrish for closing remarks. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:28:17Thank you all for joining our Q1 call today. We are excited about the opportunity set ahead of us and look forward to sharing our progress with you over the coming quarters. Have a good rest of your week. Operator00:28:31Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program. You may now disconnect. Everyone, have a great day.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesBrandon HetzelCFOBrian SedrishCEOGabriel KatzChief Legal OfficerLeonard TannenbaumExecutive ChairmanAnalystsGaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global PartnersJason SabshonAnalyst at KBWTimothy D'AgostinoAnalyst at B. 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Email Address About Sunrise Realty TrustSunrise Realty Trust (NASDAQ:SUNS) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses on acquiring, owning and leasing convenience store and fuel retail properties under long-term net leases. The company targets sale-leaseback transactions and joint-venture investments with high-credit tenants in the convenience retail sector. Sunrise Realty Trust’s portfolio comprises single-tenant properties that benefit from predictable cash flows, structured lease agreements and tenant-driven site improvements, providing exposure to a segment of the retail real estate market that aligns closely with consumer essentials. The company’s primary business activities include sourcing and underwriting new property investments, negotiating sale-leaseback and ground lease transactions, and managing asset performance throughout the lease term. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Sunrise Realty Trust first quarter 2026 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, we'll open up for questions. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please be advised that today's call is being recorded. I would now like to hand it over to our first speaker, Gabriel Katz, Chief Legal Officer. Please go ahead. Gabriel KatzChief Legal Officer at Sunrise Realty Trust00:00:35Good morning, and thank you all for joining Sunrise Realty Trust earnings call for the quarter ended March 31st, 2026. I'm joined this morning by Leonard Tannenbaum, our Executive Chairman, Brian Sedrish, our Chief Executive Officer, and Brandon Hetzel, our Chief Financial Officer. Before I begin, I would like to note that this call is being recorded. Replay information is included on our April 15th, 2026 press release and is posted on the investor relations portion of our website at sunriserealtytrust.com, along with our first quarter 2026 earnings release and investor presentation. Today's conference call includes forward-looking statements and projections that reflect the company's current views with respect to, among other things, market developments, our investment pipeline, anticipated portfolio yield, and financial performance and projections in 2026 and beyond. These statements are subject to inherent uncertainties in predicting future results. Gabriel KatzChief Legal Officer at Sunrise Realty Trust00:01:25Please refer to Sunrise Realty Trust most recent periodic filings with the SEC, including our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed earlier this morning for certain conditions and significant factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements and projections. During today's conference call, management will refer to non-GAAP financial measures, including Distributable Earnings. Please see our first quarter earnings release uploaded to our website for reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures with most directly comparable GAAP measures. The format for today's call is as follows. Len will provide a general business and capital markets overview. Next, Brian will cover our view on the state of the commercial real estate lending markets, discuss our existing portfolio, and provide an outlook for our investment pipeline. Brandon will provide an update on our financial position. After that, we'll open the lines for Q&A. Gabriel KatzChief Legal Officer at Sunrise Realty Trust00:02:16With that, I will now turn the call over to our Executive Chairman, Leonard Tannenbaum. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:02:21Thank you, Gabe. Good morning, and welcome to our first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. For the quarter ended March 31st, 2026, SUNS generated distributable earnings of 35 cents per share of common stock, which covered our dividend of 30 cents per share. The quarter was positively impacted by a short-term loan on a Colorado property, new deal closings, and the payoff of a loan to a multifamily property in Dallas. We were pleased with our first quarter results, which reflected the continued earnings power of our portfolio, the benefit of construction and other existing commitments funding during the quarter, and our ability to recycle capital through repayments and new originations at an attractive risk-adjusted return. During the quarter, we completed the foreclosure of our loan secured by Thompson San Antonio, a 162-key Class A hotel in Texas. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:03:19We believe we are now better positioned to evaluate value-maximizing alternatives since the asset is not subject to the former sponsor's hotel management agreement and brand affiliation. Shortly after taking title, we engaged Eastdil to market the asset, and the first round of bidding recently concluded. We received multiple attractive offers and expect the process to continue over the upcoming quarters. The ultimate transaction could take the form of an all-cash sale or a sale that includes lower leverage seller financing from SUNS and its affiliates, combined with a meaningful equity contribution from the buyer. Based on the interest to date, we remain positive about our ability to resolve the investment in a timely manner. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:04:12On the capital markets front, in March, we completed the expansion of our senior secured revolving facility to $165 million with the addition of Customers Bank, which committed an additional $25 million to our facility. With that, I'll turn it over to Brian to discuss the market environment and walk through our portfolio in more detail. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:04:34Thank you, Len, and good morning. Before turning to the portfolio, I wanted to briefly discuss what we are seeing in the commercial real estate lending market and why we believe SUNS is well-positioned. Over the last two years, we have worked to construct a loan book that capitalizes on our team's expertise in providing capital to sponsors of transitional real estate business plans with projects situated in growing southern markets backed by competent owners. Our team seeks to primarily invest in transactions that require a lender which can underwrite complex business plans and create the necessary structure to ensure downside protection. These types of deals are where our team believes it can create alpha. Within the broader transaction market, we continue to see a meaningful divide between acquisitions and refinancings. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:05:29Acquisitions where the cost basis has been reset to today's market are generally where the underwriting works most cleanly and where we have been most active. Pricing on refinancings is harder to establish because relatively few comparable assets actually trade, which creates a wide range of outcomes. We find a subset of refinancings interesting, specifically situations where an incumbent senior lender is forcing the sponsor's hand to be taken out. Capital markets activity in the quarter was more volatile than recent quarters, driven primarily by geopolitical developments. Treasury yields moved meaningfully higher and securitization spreads widened before partially retracing. From our seat, sponsor inquiry activity remained healthy throughout the period, but several transactions in our pipeline paused for several weeks while sponsors and their counterparties reassessed cost of capital. By quarter-end, activity had largely normalized. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:06:33Importantly, because we underwrite to unlevered returns rather than relying on capital markets execution to manufacture our yield, this kind of episodic volatility has limited impact on the deals we have already closed and modest impact on our forward pipeline. Across the markets we lend into, the picture in the Southern United States is not uniform, and we think this nuance matters in how we deploy capital. Florida and the Southeast more broadly remain constructive across most asset classes, supported by sustained in-migration and continued employment growth. The major Texas markets are showing signs of tightening on the residential side, with concession burn-off underway in select submarkets. Some of the more recently overbuilt Western Sun Belt markets are still working through excess supply, and many have not yet reached an equilibrium. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:07:32We remain disciplined about where we deploy and have leaned into reset basis opportunities in the markets that have begun to stabilize. On the competitive landscape, regional banks have continued to step back into smaller, simpler, stabilized deals, and the larger debt funds and commercial mortgage REITs have continued to compete aggressively for stabilized multifamily and industrial loans, where spreads have tightened back to the mid 200s over SOFR in many instances. That is not where we play. Our focus remains on transitional business plans where the deal requires structuring, sponsor selection, and asset-level conviction, not just an attractive cost of funds. Said differently, in a market where many lenders are competing on price, we continue to focus on the less trafficked business plans that require operational and development expertise and a sound understanding of local market dynamics. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:08:28The other dynamic worth highlighting is the growing wave of stress in 2021 and 2022 vintage bridge and construction loans coming due. The market is going to need to clear billions of dollars of this paper through sales, modifications, and recapitalizations over the next two years. That is not a headwind for SUNS. We did not originate that vintage at scale. Our book is overwhelmingly post-rate hike paper at reset basis, and the disgorgement cycle is precisely what creates the acquisition opportunities for the sponsors that we lend to. Turning to the portfolio, in the first quarter of 2026, the TCG Real Estate platform originated $91 million of loans, of which SUNS committed $62 million across two loans. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:09:15These included $14 million of a $22 million senior bridge loan to finance the acquisition of an 11,000 acre portion of Silver Mountain Ranch in Colorado, which was originated, closed, and exited during the quarter, and $48 million of a $69 million B note as part of the $406 million refinancing of a 15-property portfolio of Graduate by Hilton hotels for AJ Capital Partners. Over the period, SUNS funded $90 million of new and existing loans and received $70 million of repayments, including full repayment on 2 loans, Silver Mountain Ranch and Bohéme. As of March 31, 2026, the SUNS portfolio had $397 million of commitments, with $299 million funded across 15 loans. Subsequent to quarter-end, Jovie Belterra was fully repaid. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:10:13Looking ahead, we remain focused on disciplined origination, active portfolio management, and prudent capital allocation. We believe the current market favors lenders with flexible capital, structuring expertise, and selectivity around basis, sponsorship, and downside protection. SUNS is well-positioned to capitalize on this environment, balancing growth with risk management and long-term shareholder value. With that, I will now turn the call over to Brandon Hetzel, our Chief Financial Officer. Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:10:48Thank you, Brian. For the quarter-ended March 31, 2026, we generated net interest income of $7.3 million and distributable earnings of $4.7 million or $0.35 per basic weighted average common share, and had GAAP net income of $4.3 million or $0.32 per basic weighted average common share. The quarter included one-time fees from two investments, a $400,000 fee on the short-term Silver Mountain Ranch Bridge loan and a $1.2 million prepayment fee on the Bohéme loan. We believe that providing distributable earnings is helpful to shareholders in assessing the overall performance of SUNS business. Distributable earnings represents net income computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding non-cash items such as stock compensation expense, unrealized gains or losses, and the provision for current expected credit losses. Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:11:42We ended the first quarter of 2026 with $397.1 million of current commitments and $299.3 million of principal outstanding spread across 15 loans. As of May 8th, 2026, our portfolio consisted of $380.2 million of current commitments and $292.1 million of principal outstanding across 14 loans. All loans are current and performing with a weighted average portfolio yield to maturity of approximately 12.4%. Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:12:15As of March 31st, 2026, our CECL reserve was approximately $550,000, or 19 basis points for our loans at carrying value. As of March 31st, 2026, we had total assets of $330 million, and our total shareholder equity was $182.5 million with a book value of $13.50 per share. For the quarter ending March 31st, 2026, the Board of Directors declared a $0.30 dividend per share outstanding. The dividend was paid on April 15th, 2026 to shareholders of record as of March 31st, 2026. With that, I'll now turn it back over to the operator to start the Q&A. Operator00:13:00Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star one one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. One moment for our first question. Our first question will come from the line of Gaurav Mehta from Alliance Global Partners. Your line is open. Gaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global Partners00:13:25Yeah, thank you. Good morning. I wanted to go back to your comments around the pipeline and wanted to get some more color on what you guys were seeing for acquisition financing versus refinancing. Within the current pipeline, what's the sort of mix between different kind of property types? Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:13:45Sure. It's Brian. Thanks for the question. The pipeline, you know, as mentioned in the prepared remarks, there has definitely been. It's clear that the banks have returned on more of the most stabilized of assets, multi-family, industrial, existing assets, standing assets. Spreads have come in, as you know. That has not been our focus. What we're seeing a lot of is the opportunity and a big void as a result of these lenders focusing and some of our competitors focusing on industrial and multi stabilized. A big opportunity and void in the markets for more transitional product. That could include multi-family. It does include multi-family. We're seeing more transitional assets. Certainly some in the bifurcation between acquisition and refinancings. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:14:37On the refinancing side, we're seeing opportunities where the sponsors need to inject existing incremental equity to see them through to the stabilization period. That's, there's a series of deals that we're focusing on there. Across asset classes, anything with any degree of complexity is really creating a separation from our side and others. Those have really been the big areas that we've been focusing on. That's what really makes up the majority of our pipeline. Gaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global Partners00:15:03Okay. Thanks for that color. As a follow-up on regions in the prepared remarks, you talked about Florida and some Southeast markets seeing demand, and then you highlighted some markets still seeing supply. I guess in terms of capital deployment, should we expect that you would be more focused on Florida and other markets where you're seeing demand or you could be open to other opportunities in some other markets where there's still supply and maybe sort of reset the opportunities that you talked about? Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:15:32I would expect the majority of our deals will continue to be in those southern states that we have focused on. That's really been our focus. That's where we think we have a bit of a competitive advantage. That's the path of growth, and that continues to be the case. We're seeing that now more pronounced than we've seen in a while now. As we mentioned on the West Coast, there's been certainly in some of the Sun Belt states, there's been some supply overhang. We're seeing that absorb in the markets that we're focusing on. That's the majority of our pipeline, majority of what we're doing. You know, as always, opportunistically, we will find interesting deals away from that. I would expect a huge majority in our core markets. Gaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global Partners00:16:16Okay. Thanks. Last question on the REO. Is that asset currently being marketed for sale? I know earlier you said that you guys received few offers and it could be all cash sales or you could do some lower leverage financing. Have you accepted the offer or is it still in the market? Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:16:35Good question. It's still in the market with Eastdil. We haven't accepted an offer. We're evaluating a number of opportunities, and we will tell you as soon as we accept an offer. Gaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global Partners00:16:47Okay. Maybe lastly, on the balance sheet, the investment in real estate JV, that's the REO asset that you talked about? Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:16:56Yes, correct. Gaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global Partners00:16:58Okay. Thank you. That's all I had. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:17:00Thank you. Operator00:17:02Thank you. Our next question will come from line of Jade Rahmani from KBW. Your line is open. Jason SabshonAnalyst at KBW00:17:11Hi, it's Jason Sabshon on for Jade. Thanks for taking the question. To start, do you expect to generate any near-term income from the San Antonio JV? You mentioned a few possible outcomes, but is there one that you see as most likely, and what would the timeline to exit be? Thanks. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:17:31One of the things that I've given back to the quarter is, on the negative side, even though I think we did have a very good quarter, is we didn't get any income from the hotel. Probably not getting income from the hotel this quarter, in the current quarter. In the next quarter, we'll have to see because it's, I think it does get resolved, in a reasonable timeline, but I think it's over the next couple of quarters. We don't anticipate any income from the hotel until it gets sold or we have a note attached to it. Jason SabshonAnalyst at KBW00:18:09Got it. Thanks. Separately, it was just you touched on it, but could we just have some more color on what drove up interest income during the quarter? I know you mentioned $400,000 fee in a short-term loan and $1.2 million prepay fee, but and there was also the new hospitality loan. Was there anything else? It was up $3.1 million quarter-over-quarter, so just curious. Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:18:35Yeah. You just touched on the majority of the increase. As mentioned, $1.2 million prepayment fee related to the Bohéme loan. That also included accretion of unaccreted OID related to that loan. Second was the short-term bridge loan we did to Silver Mountain Ranch, which contributed about $400,000 to the interest income. On top of that is the new investment, which was about $48 million into the Graduate Hotels investment. Those three drivers were the main increase as well as additional construction fundings of our construction loans on the normal cadence. Jason SabshonAnalyst at KBW00:19:23Got it. Thanks. On the short-term loan, just curious, how large was that loan? Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:19:33The entire loan was approximately $21 million. SUNS portion was about $14 million. That loan was outstanding for about one week. Jason SabshonAnalyst at KBW00:19:45Got it. Thanks. Lastly, just on forward originations, what would be the target mix of senior and subordinate going forward? Currently, you're around 75% senior, so just curious. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:20:01Yeah. I would think it would be somewhere in that range. The majority of what we're doing is on the senior side. We'll selectively find interesting, relatively low levered sub debt tranches, which we have in the past. Sometimes those are senior lenders approaching us and asking us if we wanna team with them. We're doing more and more of that now, as we create more relationships with seniors. We'll continue to have the majority, super majority be on the senior side. Jason SabshonAnalyst at KBW00:20:30Thanks. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:20:32Sure. Operator00:20:33Thank you. Our next question will come from the line of Timothy D'Agostino from B. Riley Securities. Your line is open. Timothy D'AgostinoAnalyst at B. Riley Securities00:20:43Yeah. Hi, good morning. Thanks for taking the question. Congrats on the quarter. Looking at Slide 11 in the deck, you know, looking through the deals sourced all the way down to SUNS loan funded. You know, over the past couple of quarters, deal selectivity has kind of hovered around this 1.5%. I guess, you know, you provide a lot of commentary on call, but I guess, what would you need or want to see in the market for your selectivity to go up? You know, so I know you talked about balancing growth versus risk, but just kind of understanding at what point, like, what would you need to see for you to start selecting more deals and growing the portfolio? Thank you. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:21:23Yeah, I think it's two things. One, none of us in the market being optimistic have thought about or been as happy of the sort of collapse in the market in terms of, you know, really interesting opportunistic loans at big discounts, right? That hasn't presented itself to any great size, much to everyone's chagrin. I mean, if that sort of happens more when we have seen banks more willing to enter into DPO with existing borrowers, where we then can team up with those borrowers, that certainly would create it. The other big thing is just generally more acquisition volume. What happened in the last quarter that we saw is acquisition volume increased pretty significantly. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:22:12I think if that's sustained, right, and rates stabilize and start coming down, which is obviously, it's unclear right now, but that will eventually happen. That will bring about more investment activity. That will create more of an opportunity for us, and particularly, in those transitional type loans, where we're, again, just to repeat myself, we're seeing a big divergence in the majority of the competitors who are focusing on more stabilized assets. Those transitional type deals, which will happen more and more as rates come down, will create many more opportunities for us, and that, I think, will increase our volume for sure. Timothy D'AgostinoAnalyst at B. Riley Securities00:22:52Okay, great. That's super helpful. I guess just across the markets you're in, I know you also speak to, you know, making opportunistic investments. I guess, have there been any new markets that stand out to you all? Just trying to get a better sense of what you're looking at and, you know, what's interesting and what's out there. Thank you. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:23:13Sure. Well, I hate to be boring, but the reality is that the deals that have been most interesting have been in those southern markets that we've continued to collectively all talk about. It's interesting, data I recently saw is I thought there was gonna be a lull in, pick your markets, Florida, parts of Texas, or let's just focus on Florida for a second, where, you know, you had that massive in-migration that was more getting back to equilibrium. Recently, I've seen a big uptick in the continued migration into Florida. I mean, we have a big development, as you guys know, in Florida, Panther National, home sales. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:23:56We talk to that group significantly or frequently, and we've seen just a tremendous increase in volume of homeowners wanting to migrate here. It seems like that's picked up a bit, and that has knock-on effects for retail demand and for rental demand. Those are the markets that we still see are interesting, and they're boring in the sense that we continue to do them, but those are the ones that are fun. Selectively, it's out, as I mentioned earlier, it's opportunistically, there are deals we're seeing in other markets that are interesting out west. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:24:32For the most part, we're sticking to what we're seeing as the real interesting opportunities. Timothy D'AgostinoAnalyst at B. Riley Securities00:24:39Okay. That, that's great commentary. Thank you so much, and congrats on the quarter again. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:24:45Thank you. Operator00:24:47Once again, star one one for questions. Our next question will come from the line of Tyler Batory from Oppenheimer. Your line is open. Tyler BatoryAnalyst at Oppenheimer00:24:56Good morning. Thanks for taking my questions here. Just first one for me on the outlook this year. There were some one-time items obviously positively impacting Q1, contributing to that $0.35 distributable EPS. What's a good run rate to think about in terms of distributable earnings this year? Are you still thinking in line with the dividend or covering the dividend? Is that a good way to think about things? Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:25:22What? Do you wanna answer that, Brandon? Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:25:25Sure. You know, we won't give specific guidance on projections for distributable earnings throughout the year, but we will say that, you know, from time to time, we'll have various fees that can positively impact our income, and that's normal course of business for these types of loans. You know, as you mentioned, the Q1 distributable earnings benefited from those two short-term items. The Board doesn't underwrite the dividend based on one quarter at a time. They look at the medium-term earnings power of the portfolio, you know, including expected fundings and existing commitments, repayments, leverage capacity, and forward origination. We won't give specific guidance going forward, but we did wanna point out those short-term items, so you could back into the run rate. Tyler BatoryAnalyst at Oppenheimer00:26:13Okay. Appreciate that. In terms of repayments, $70 million odd this quarter, a couple of those were well before maturity too. Just trying to understand why, if that's maybe a bigger trend that might be going on or playing out in the portfolio, in terms of some loans being repaid earlier than expected. Brandon HetzelCFO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:26:35Yeah, sure. It's actually only one that was repaid early, the Bohéme loan. The rest of the $70 million was one, the short-term loan that was in and out during the period, as well as repayments and draws around the Panther National loan. That's a revolving loan where they'll draw and repay and that gets grossed up into those repayment numbers. Tyler BatoryAnalyst at Oppenheimer00:26:59Okay. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:27:00In other words, we're not seeing anything abnormal. Tyler BatoryAnalyst at Oppenheimer00:27:03Okay. That's what I was trying to get at. Thank you. Just the last one for me. The San Antonio issue, you know, I think it snuck up on us. I just wanted to be sure when you look across the rest of the portfolio that there's nothing that is concerning, nothing that's you know, that you're watching closely in terms of a potential negative outcome similar to what happened in San Antonio. Leonard TannenbaumExecutive Chairman at Sunrise Realty Trust00:27:30Yeah. I get that it did sneak up on some people. It did happen relatively quickly as well. We do expect a resolution in the coming quarters and not too bad a resolution. I don't think right now there's nothing else on watch list, not one other thing on watch list. You know, things are obviously doing a little bit better, a little bit worse, but everything is right within the tolerances of our plan. Tyler BatoryAnalyst at Oppenheimer00:28:02Okay. Very helpful. I'll leave it there. Thank you. Operator00:28:08Thank you. I'm not showing any further questions in the queue. I will now turn it back over to Brian Sedrish for closing remarks. Brian SedrishCEO at Sunrise Realty Trust00:28:17Thank you all for joining our Q1 call today. We are excited about the opportunity set ahead of us and look forward to sharing our progress with you over the coming quarters. Have a good rest of your week. Operator00:28:31Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program. You may now disconnect. Everyone, have a great day.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesBrandon HetzelCFOBrian SedrishCEOGabriel KatzChief Legal OfficerLeonard TannenbaumExecutive ChairmanAnalystsGaurav MehtaAnalyst at Alliance Global PartnersJason SabshonAnalyst at KBWTimothy D'AgostinoAnalyst at B. Riley SecuritiesTyler BatoryAnalyst at OppenheimerPowered by