We are a real estate finance company that plans to focus primarily on originating and investing in first mortgage loans secured by middle market and transitional commercial real estate, or CRE. We define middle market CRE as commercial properties that have values up to $75.0 million and transitional CRE as commercial properties subject to redevelopment or repositioning activities that are expected to increase the value of the properties. We believe that focusing on middle market and transitional CRE will provide us with opportunities to achieve higher returns relative to first mortgage loans secured by properties that have values greater than $75.0 million or stabilized properties. We also believe that our Manager provides us with significant experience and expertise in investing in middle market and transitional CRE. Although we expect our primary focus will be originating and investing in floating rate first mortgage loans of less than $50.0 million, our target investments will also include subordinated mortgages, mezzanine loans and preferred equity interests in entities that own middle market and transitional CRE.