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Organization and Business
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Organization and Business

Note 1 - Organization and Business

Broadmark Realty Capital Inc. (“Broadmark Realty,” “the Company,” “we,” “us” and “our”) is an internally managed commercial real estate finance company that provides secured financing to real estate investors and developers. Broadmark Realty’s objective is to preserve and protect stockholder capital while producing attractive risk-adjusted returns primarily through dividends generated from current income from its loan portfolio. Broadmark Realty has historically operated in states that it believes to have favorable demographic trends and provide Broadmark Realty the ability to efficiently access the underlying collateral in the event of borrower default.

The consolidated subsidiaries of Broadmark Realty include BRMK Lending, LLC, BRMK Management, Corp., and Broadmark Private REIT Management, LLC. BRMK Lending, LLC originates short-term loans generally secured by first deed of trust position liens on residential and commercial real estate. BRMK Management, Corp. (the “Manager”) manages the underwriting, closing, servicing and disposition of mortgage notes, and performs all general and administrative duties for Broadmark Realty. Broadmark Private REIT Management, LLC (the “Private REIT Manager”) previously managed Broadmark Private REIT, LLC (the “Private REIT”), which was an unconsolidated affiliate of the Company that primarily participated in loans originated, underwritten and serviced by a subsidiary of Broadmark Realty.

On February 26, 2023, the Company, Ready Capital Corporation (“Ready Capital”) and Ready Capital Merger Sub, LLC (“Merger Sub”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Merger Agreement") pursuant to which the Company will merge with and into Merger Sub, with Merger Sub continuing as the surviving company and a subsidiary of Ready Capital (the “Merger”) where each share of the Company’s common stock will be converted into 0.47233 shares of Ready Capital common stock. The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of 2023, subject to the respective approvals by the stockholders of Ready Capital and the Company and other customary closing conditions. Ready Capital is a multi-strategy real estate finance company that originates, acquires, finances and services small-to-medium balance commercial loans and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Broadmark Realty has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Broadmark Realty generally will not be subject to U.S. federal corporate income tax on that portion of its net income that is distributed to stockholders if it annually distributes dividends equal to at least 90% of its REIT taxable income to its stockholders (determined without regard to the dividends-paid deduction and excluding net capital gains) by prescribed dates and complies with various other requirements. Broadmark Realty also operates its business in a manner that permits it to maintain an exclusion from registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940. As a REIT, Broadmark Realty may own up to 100% of the stock of one or more taxable REIT subsidiaries (“TRSs”), which may earn income that would not be qualifying income if earned directly by a REIT. The Manager is a TRS and this election applies to the wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Manager, including the Private REIT Manager.