Top 10 U.S commercial/multifamily mortgage originators

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Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its 2018 ranking of commercial/multi-family mortgage firms’ origination volumes.

According to a set of commercial/multifamily real estate finance league tables prepared by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), the following firms were the top commercial/multifamily mortgage originators in 2018:

  • HFF
  • Wells Fargo
  • CBRE Capital Markets, Inc.
  • Key Bank
  • Eastdil Secured
  • JP Morgan Chase & Company
  • Meridian Capital Group
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • PNC Real Estate
  • Berkadia

MBA’s Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Firms – Annual Origination Volumes study is the only one of its kind to present a comprehensive set of listings of 136 different commercial/multifamily mortgage originators, their 2018 volumes and the different roles they play.

The report presents origination volumes in more than 140 categories, including by role, investor group, property type, financing structure type, and by the location of the originating office.

By dollar volume, the top five originators for third parties in 2018 were:

  • HFF
  • CBRE Capital Markets, Inc.
  • Eastdil Secured
  • Meridian Capital Group
  • Key Bank

The top five lenders in 2018 were:

  • Wells Fargo
  • Key Bank
  • JP Morgan Chase & Company
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • Capital One Financial Corp

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Nine different companies were at the top of the 11 lists reporting total originations by investor groups:

  • JP Morgan Chase & Company, Citigroup Global Markets, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., Eastdil Secured, and Goldman Sachs were the top originators for commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). 
  • Key Bank, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase & Company, PNC Real Estate, and Meridian Capital Group were the top originators for commercial bank loans.
  • HFF, MetLife Investment Management, Eastdil Secured, PGIM Real Estate Finance, and New York Life Investments were the top originators for life insurance companies.
  • Wells Fargo, Walker & Dunlop, CBRE Capital Markets, Inc., Berkadia, and Newmark Knight Frank were the top originators for Fannie Mae.
  • CBRE Capital Markets, Inc., Berkadia, Walker & Dunlop, HFF, and Key Bank were the top originators for Freddie Mac.
  • Red Mortgage Capital, LLC, Greystone, Berkadia, Walker & Dunlop, and Wells Fargo were the top originators for FHA/Ginnie Mae.
  • Nuveen Real Estate, Newmark Knight Frank, Barings, CBRE Capital Markets, Inc., and JLL were the top originators for pension funds.
  • Wells Fargo, CBRE Capital Markets, Inc., Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation, JLL, and Meridian Capital Group were the top originators for credit companies. 

Source: MBA