Hard Money
Why Lexington Capital Holdings is Expanding Into the Real Estate Business
September 24, 2025Lexington Capital Holdings is expanding beyond small business lending and into real estate, the company recently revealed. Lexington, a Long Island-based financial marketplace and brokerage led by CEO Frankie DiAntonio, is launching Lexington Estates to buy, sell, rehab, and hold properties long term.
According to DiAntonio, deals involving real estate have already been a part of their regular broker product mix for a long time, but when deciding whether or not they wanted to lend against real estate on their own or become the actual buyers and builders, they felt the latter would be more impactful. A syndication fund for these real estate deals, for example, will be open to employees of the firm to participate in. Lexington’s existing operation already has about 50 sales reps. Two from that group will move over to the real estate side to join a number of new hires they’re bringing on board to carry this plan out.
“Business is a team sport and I wouldn’t have been able to do any of this without the amazing Lexington team behind me,” DiAntonio said of the company’s success to-date.
Lexington Estates is already closing on its first property on Long Island. While they will make their focus local right out of the gate, they plan to work on deals both residential and commercial throughout the United States within 12 months. DiAntonio cut his teeth on real estate deals by participating in them personally outside of his business and now he’s making it a corporate endeavor. Whether it’s residential, retail, office space, industrial space, or anything else, they plan to evaluate it on the merits of the potential profits.
“I’m looking for deals,” DiAntonio said. “I’m looking for what’s the best bang for our buck.”
DiAntonio views this ambitious plan as one of absolute necessity given the challenges that the younger generation faces with the cost of living going up.
“I strive so hard to put my people in a position where they can make more money than the average American because you can’t even live the average American life and be average anymore,” DiAntonio said. “You actually have to be great just to live an average American life.”
Lexington Estates plans to officially launch on October 12th.
Pacific Equity And Loan Acquires Emerald Capital Funding
January 12, 2020
This week Pacific Equity & Loan, a hard money lender based in Washington state, acquired Emerald Capital Funding. Done to “provide more resources and investment opportunity to real estate investors in the Washington market,” according to a statement from PEL, the merger will see all of ECF’s staff move over to PEL.
“The move comes amid a rapidly evolving mortgage industry in specifically the private money and hard money lending sector,” ECF’s President and Founder Christopher Robinson commented. “We need to stay ahead of the curve and assure that our customer receive the best value, the best technology, and continue to work with a trusted local lender.”
Speaking to deBanked, Sang Yoon, PEL’s Director of Business Development and Co-founder said that he was excited to move forward, noting that it’s a “two heads are better than one situation. By merging or acquiring a company, we are better able to service our customers.”
