Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp
Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACRE) operates as a commercial real estate lender providing capital to real estate sponsors and operators throughout the United States. The company's website is www.aresco.com. From the company’s description.
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What Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp does
In the company’s own words
Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACRE) operates as a commercial real estate lender providing capital to real estate sponsors and operators throughout the United States. The company's website is www.aresco.com.
ACRE specializes in originating, acquiring, and managing commercial real estate loans secured by stabilized and transitional office, retail, self-storage, student housing, industrial, and multifamily properties. The company operates through its warehouse lending platform, which functions as a bridge between loan origination and capital markets securitization. This business model allows ACRE to accumulate pools of commercial real estate loans that are subsequently securitized and sold to investors, generating fee income while maintaining servicing rights and other economic interests in the underlying assets.
The company's primary revenue sources include interest income from its loan portfolio, gains on sales of securitized loans, servicing fees, and other ancillary revenues. ACRE maintains a diversified portfolio across multiple property types and geographic markets, reducing concentration risk in any single asset class or region. The company employs a disciplined underwriting process and maintains active portfolio management to identify and mitigate credit risks.
ACRE's business model benefits from several competitive advantages, including established relationships with institutional capital providers, expertise in commercial real estate credit analysis and underwriting, and operational infrastructure supporting loan origination and securitization activities. The company leverages its parent company Ares Management L.P.'s broader platform and capital resources to support its lending operations.
The warehouse lending platform represents a significant component of ACRE's operations, utilizing repurchase agreements with financial institutions like Wells Fargo Bank to finance its loan inventory. These financing arrangements, documented through master repurchase agreements, provide the capital necessary to fund new loan originations while loans are accumulated for securitization. The company's ability to efficiently manage this warehouse financing and execute timely securitizations is critical to its operational success and profitability.
Company details
- Sector
- Real Estate
- Industry
- REITs
- Headquarters
- NEW YORK, NY
- CIK
- 1529377
- SIC
- 6798
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp’s weight in each
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Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
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Recent filings
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