| RAIT Financial Trust (RAIT) is a specialty finance company that provides a set of debt financing options to the real estate industry. It originates and invests in real estate-related assets that are underwritten through an integrated investment process. RAIT conducts business through its subsidiaries, which include RAIT Partnership, L.P. and Taberna Realty Finance Trust, as well as through their respective subsidiaries. RAIT is a self-managed and self-advised real estate investment trust (REIT), which originates and invests in asset classes, such as commercial mortgages, mezzanine loans and other loans; trust preferred securities (TruPS), and subordinated debentures; residential mortgage loans; mortgaged-backed securities, including residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), unsecured REIT notes and other real estate-related debt securities, and real estate investments and preferred equity interests in entities that own real estate. |
