Maybe find a happy medium where the seller's willing to reduce and the buyer can bridge the new reduced gap via cash to the table.              

@Daniel Hyman - I'll try to check into that with my agent some more, but I don't have a lot of hope that's the issue@Jeff Bridges - I completely agree.

This is especially troublesome on the commercial side of real estate where bridge debt was used, interest rates and interest rate caps have skyrocketed.Have your rent projections changed? 

We are selling our 4br/2 ba 3500 sf house and moving into a 1400 sf house( Lakefront house, on Timberlake, we are trading space for location)We are trading in a 2.99 % for a 7.99% rate ( on a Bridge Loan) We got a bridge loan as we are buying the lake house now( they rarely come up for sale and we jumped on this when we saw it, a lifelong dream of living waterfront miraculously fulfulled!)

Are there any bridge funding suggestions?

If the exit is a refi, you might want to get a longer term bridge loan to renovate and have tenants occupy the old bar.

More importantly, he always closes on time and has saved a few of my deals from falling through by providing bridge loans and transaction funding, something you won’t get from every lender.

If I'm in your shoes, I would do a quick search online for DSCR lenders as well as private lenders that can fund bridge loans.

Is it possible to (and/or advisable to) draw a home equity loan against my primary to bridge the shortfall for the downpayment and help me acquire the property?

For the most part you see them just outside of DC and Baltimore or across the Bay Bridge in Queen Ann County.