Monetization

Corporations often take advantage of sale-leaseback, asset monetization, and other forms of credit-backed financing to free up their balance sheets, but the concept has remained a novel one for municipalities. Community budgets can fail to meet the demands ever-increasing pension and healthcare entitlements because declining tax revenues have eroded the ability of governments to maintain public services and pursue community development. This problem has grown to national proportions in the recent economic crisis.

As a result of budget deficits and growing capital needs the public sector has understood the need to partner with the private business and investment community to bridge the gaps and maintain public services using the methods long employed by private enterprise.

National Standard is a direct investor in, and principal buyer of public assets. We work with city, county, state and Federal agencies, as well as with health care systems, to create customized asset monetization structures using a sale-leaseback strategy to meet the immediate capital needs of our client. We work closely with the client to engineer lease terms that match current and future budget projections. This can include no rent, or substantially reduced rent, for an extended period of time to create a budget-match lease structure. National Standard also offers monetization and lease programs that can include an asset reversion to the tenant at lease maturity, which results in no loss of asset appreciation over the long term.

National Standard is interested in investing in and acquiring a wide array of asset and real estate types, from city halls and courthouses to correctional facilities and health care properties. Our professionals will review your asset base and work with you to create a proposal that will fit your needs.