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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
16. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Leases

As of December 31, 2025, the Company had a $(14.3) million lease liability and a $13.3 million right-of-use asset on its consolidated balance sheets recorded within other liabilities and other assets, respectively. The right-of-use lease asset relates to the Company's operating leases of office space. Right-of use lease assets initially equal the lease liability. During the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company recognized $3.7 million and $2.2 million, respectively in operating expenses in its consolidated statements of income relating to operating leases.
Future minimum lease payments under non-cancelable operating leases as of December 31, 2025 are as follows ($ in thousands):

Period ending December 31,Minimum Lease Payments
2026$2,597 
20272,232 
20282,306 
20292,409 
20302,409 
Thereafter6,220 
Total undiscounted cash flows18,173 
Present value discount (1)(3,909)
Lease liabilities (2)$14,264 
(1)Lease liabilities were discounted at the Company's weighted average incremental borrowing rate, estimated at the time of lease commencement, for similar collateral, which was 6.59%. The average remaining lease term is 7.4 years.
(2)The Company has a five-year extension option on its corporate headquarters office at 320 Park Avenue, New York, New York, which is not reflected in the total lease liability.
Unfunded Loan Commitments

As of December 31, 2025, the Company’s off-balance sheet arrangements consisted of $93.4 million of unfunded commitments on mortgage loan receivables held for investment to provide additional first mortgage loan financing over the next three years at rates to be determined at the time of funding. 49% of these unfunded commitments require the occurrence of certain “good news” events, such as the owner concluding a lease agreement with a major tenant in the building or reaching some pre-determined net operating income. As of December 31, 2024, the Company’s off-balance sheet arrangements consisted of $34.6 million of unfunded commitments on mortgage loan receivables held for investment to provide additional first mortgage loan financing.

Commitments are subject to the Company’s loan borrowers’ satisfaction of certain financial and nonfinancial covenants and may or may not be funded depending on a variety of circumstances including timing, credit metric hurdles, and other nonfinancial events occurring. The Company carefully monitors the progress of work at properties that serve as collateral underlying its commercial mortgage loans, including the progress of capital expenditures, construction, leasing and business plans in light of current market conditions. These commitments are not reflected on the consolidated balance sheets. 

Unsettled Trades

As of December 31, 2025, there were no material unsettled trades. As of December 31, 2024, the Company had $10.0 million of U.S. Treasury securities traded and not yet settled on its consolidated balance sheet. The U.S. Treasury securities are recorded within other assets, and the related payable is recorded within other liabilities. These balances relate to the Company’s purchase of U.S. Treasury securities with maturities of less than three months, which will be recorded within cash and cash equivalents upon settlement. The payable within other liabilities at December 31, 2024 was paid during the year ended December 31, 2025.