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  • Lument - Platinum Sponsor

    Market Outlook

     

    Lument is a nationally recognized leader in multifamily and seniors housing finance, offering a comprehensive set of custom capital solutions for investors in seniors housing and healthcare, multifamily, and affordable housing. Lument is a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation USA.

  • M&T Realty Capital Corporation | M&T Bank - Platinum Sponsor

    Attendee Wifi

     

    As a full-service mortgage banking firm, M&T Realty Capital Corporation® specializes in financing multifamily and commercial properties throughout the United States. We originate and service loans for all types of income producing properties.

  • Walker & Dunlop - Platinum Sponsor

    Hotel Keys

     

    Walker & Dunlop, one of the largest commercial real estate finance companies in the U.S., provides a comprehensive range of capital solutions for all commercial real estate asset classes as well as multifamily property sales brokerage services.

  • Berkadia Commercial Mortgage LLC - Gold Sponsor

    General Session

     

    Berkadia, a joint venture of Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies Financial Group, is a leader in the commercial real estate industry, offering a robust suite of services to our multifamily and commercial property clients. Powered by deep relationships and industry-changing technology, our people sell, finance, and service commercial real estate, providing support for the entire life cycle of our clients’ assets. Our unique ownership structure allows us to put the client’s interests first and creates a marketplace that delivers a superior experience.

  • Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC - Gold Sponsor

    LinkedIn Profile Consultations

     

    Goldman Sachs Real Estate Financing Group (REFG), through its commercial mortgage platform, is a leading full-service commercial mortgage lender offering clients highly responsive service and a consistent source of capital. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Bank USA, the REFG team has offices in New York and Dallas with dedicated CMBS and balance sheet deal teams that cover the Eastern, Central, Southern and Western regions.

  • Grandbridge Real Estate Capital - Gold Sponsor

    Headshot Cafe

     

    Grandbridge Real Estate Capital LLC provides comprehensive capital markets solutions for commercial and multifamily real estate assets nationwide with a broad investor base that includes insurance companies, pension funds, investment banks and capital markets investors. The company is a Freddie Mac Optigo® Conventional Multifamily and Targeted Affordable Housing lender, a Fannie Mae DUS® lender, and an approved FHA MAP lender. With a current servicing portfolio of approximately $30 billion, Grandbridge, an S&P “Strong” rated servicer, services loan portfolios and provides asset and portfolio management nationwide for capital providers including Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae, insurance companies, banks and more than 325 securitizations. More information about Grandbridge and its full line of products and services is available at Grandbridge.com.

  • KeyBank - Gold Sponsor

    Super Bowl Tailgate & Watch Party

     

    KeyBank Real Estate Capital is a leading provider of commercial real estate finance. Its professionals, located across the country, provide a broad range of financing solutions on both a corporate and project basis. The group provides interim and construction financing, permanent mortgages, commercial real estate loan servicing, investment banking and cash management services for virtually all types of income producing commercial real estate. As a Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriter and Servicer, Freddie Mac Program Plus Seller/Servicer and FHA approved mortgagee, KeyBank Real Estate Capital offers a variety of agency financing solutions for multifamily properties, including affordable housing, seniors housing and student housing. KeyBank Real Estate Capital is also one of the nation’s largest and highest rated commercial mortgage servicers.

  • Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation - Gold Sponsor

     

  • Northmarq - Gold Sponsor

    Bottled Water Room Drop

     

    Northmarq is a full-service capital markets resource for commercial real estate investors, offering seamless collaboration with top experts in debt, equity, investment sales and loan servicing. We combine industry-leading capabilities with a flexible structure, enabling our national team of experienced professionals to create innovative solutions for clients. Our solid foundation and entrepreneurial approach have built an annual transaction volume of more than $37 billion and a loan servicing portfolio of nearly $76 billion. Through the 2022 acquisition of Stan Johnson Company and Four Pillars Capital Markets, Northmarq introduces clients to expanded opportunities across all major asset classes.

  • Starwood Mortgage Capital - Gold Sponsor

    Daily Emails

     

    Starwood Mortgage Capital is one of the nation’s leading commercial real estate lenders, specializing in flexible loan structures within a sophisticated lending platform. We originate competitively priced loans typically ranging from $5 Million to $100 Million, and we also do smaller and larger loans on a case-by-case basis. Our commercial mortgage loans are secured by retail shopping centers, office buildings, multifamily apartment complexes, hotels, self-storage, mixed-use and industrial properties throughout North America.

  • Wells Fargo Bank, N.A - Gold Sponsor

    Mobile App

     

    Wells Fargo Corporate Investment Banking delivers a comprehensive suite of capital markets, banking, and financial products and services. A trusted partner to our clients, we provide corporate and transactional banking, commercial real estate lending and servicing, investment banking, equity and fixed income solutions including sales, trading, and research capabilities to corporate, commercial real estate, government, and institutional clients across the globe. Our office locations span the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

    Wells Fargo Corporate Investment Banking is part of Wells Fargo. Founded in 1852, Wells Fargo Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.9 trillion in assets. Wells Fargo's vision is to satisfy our customers' financial needs and help them succeed financially.

  • Arbor Reality Trust Inc - Silver Sponsor

    Attendee Breakfast (Tuesday)

     

    Arbor Realty Trust, Inc., a nationwide real estate investment trust and direct lender, provides loan origination and servicing for multifamily and other commercial real estate asset classes. Arbor is rated by Standard and Poor’s and Fitch.

  • Bank of America - Silver Sponsor

    Closing Session & Breakfast

     

    Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world.

  • Citigroup Global Markets Inc. - Silver Sponsor

    Refreshment Break in THE HUB (Monday)

     

    Citi provides comprehensive relationship coverage service to ensure the best possible service and responsiveness to clients. With its strong presence in many nations, Citi uses country, sector, and product expertise to deliver our global capabilities to clients wherever they choose to compete.

  • Eastdil Secured - Silver Sponsor

    Convention Mints

     

    As the most relevant and trusted advisor in the commercial real estate capital markets, Eastdil Secured creates value for clients through creative, actionable ideas and flawless execution. With an unrivaled combination of capital markets expertise and in-depth understanding of real estate fundamentals, Eastdil Secured delivers best-in-class advice on mergers and acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, debt placement, structured credit and loan sales to investors around the world. Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles, Eastdil Secured has a broad global footprint to support clients with offices across the United States in San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Orange County, and Washington, D.C., and internationally in London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Dubai.

    For more information on Eastdil Secured, the global real estate investment bank, please visit www.eastdilsecured.com.

  • JLL - Silver Sponsor

    Refreshment Break in THE HUB EXPO (Tuesday)

     

    JLL, also known as Jones Lang LaSalle, is a leading professional services firm that specializes in real estate and investment management. With a presence in over 80 countries and a workforce of more than 92,000 employees, JLL provides a wide range of services to clients across the globe.

    The company offers integrated solutions for investors, occupiers, and developers, covering all aspects of real estate, including leasing, property management, investment management, valuations, and advisory services. JLL serves clients in various sectors, including office, retail, industrial, residential, hospitality, healthcare, and more.

    JLL is committed to delivering exceptional value by helping clients optimize their real estate assets, streamline operations, enhance financial performance, and create sustainable and efficient workplaces. With its extensive industry experience, market knowledge, and innovative technologies, JLL strives to help clients achieve their business goals and seize opportunities in the dynamic real estate market.

  • MetLife Services & Solutions - Silver Sponsor

    Conference Notepads

     

    MetLife Investment Management's Real Estate Group has been involved in real estate since 1878, with activity on behalf of mortgage lenders, developers and owners and manage a real estate portfolio invested in commercial mortgages and equities.

  • PGIM Real Estate - Silver Sponsor

    Attendee Breakfast (Monday)

     

    With $210 billion in gross AUM/A*, PGIM Real Estate provides investors and borrowers access to a range of real estate equity and real estate debt solutions across the risk-return spectrum. * As of 12/30/23. Net AUM is $134 billion and AUA is $49 billion. d AUA is $49B. **Includes legacy lending through PGIM’s parent company, PFI.

  • PNC Real Estate - Silver Sponsor

    COFFEE SPOT in THE HUB EXPO

     

    PNC Real Estate is a leading provider of banking, financing and servicing solutions for commercial real estate clients across the country. Our comprehensive array of capabilities includes:
    • Acquisition, construction and permanent financing for public and private developers and investors.
    • Agency financing for multifamily and seniors housing properties.
    • Debt and equity capital for the affordable housing industry.
    • Third-party loan servicing, asset management and technology solutions.

  • Ready Capital - Silver Sponsor

    THE HOT SPOT in THE HUB EXPO

     

    Ready Capital Corporation (NYSE: RC) is a multi-strategy real estate finance company that originates, acquires, finances and services small- to medium-balance commercial loans. Ready Capital specializes in loans backed by commercial real estate, including agency multifamily, investor and bridge as well as affordable housing finance and government guaranteed business loans. Headquartered in New York, New York, Ready Capital employs over 600 lending professionals nationwide. The company is externally managed and advised by Waterfall Asset Management, LLC.

  • Resilience Insurance Analytics - Silver Sponsor

    Attendee Lunch (Monday)

     

  • Bank OZK - Bronze Sponsor

     

    Bank OZK, through its Real Estate Specialties Group (RESG), provides financing on commercial real estate projects throughout the nation. RESG is considered a preeminent, market-leading construction lender focused on senior secured financing for a variety of property types including mixed use, multifamily housing, condominiums, office, hospitality, life sciences, industrial and retail. RESG has originated over $40.6B over the last five years.

  • Barings - Bronze Sponsor

     

    Barings is a $431+ billion* global asset management firm that partners with institutional, insurance, and intermediary clients, and supports leading businesses with flexible financing solutions. The firm, a subsidiary of MassMutual, seeks to deliver excess returns by leveraging its global scale and capabilities across public and private markets in fixed income, real assets and capital solutions.

  • Capital One - Bronze Sponsor

     

    At Capital One, we know that every business plays an important role in driving and energizing the local economy. To that end, we are passionately focused and committed to providing an exceptional customer experience on which we consistently deliver. As one of the top 10 financial services providers in the U.S., we can offer a unique combination of financial strength, personal attention and flexible products. And since we know that every organization has its own unique challenges and opportunities, our focus is on getting to know the way you operate and understanding where you want your organization to go. Whether you're looking to grow your business, fund a major capital purchase or finance an acquisition, we can offer a variety of loans to help you secure the capital you need. Our Commercial Banking group services a $65 billion loan portfolio and more than 6,100 clients. Let us show you the difference our partnership and proven experience can make.

  • CBRE - Bronze Sponsor

     

    CBRE Capital Markets is the #1 ranked brokerage firm globally - providing real estate funding and services to developers and owners of commercial real estate properties.
    We synthesize a global ecosystem of lenders and capital sources to provide debt and equity financing and solutions for all property types across all capital structures, achieving the best financing terms for our clients. In addition to our relationships with banks and securitized and institutional lenders, we are a Freddie Mac Optigo Seller/Servicer, approved Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting and Servicing (DUS®) lender, FHA approved direct lender & Ginnie Mae issuer and servicer, and correspondent life company lender and servicer.

  • Colliers - Bronze Sponsor

     

    Colliers is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company. Our mission is to maximize the potential of property and real assets to accelerate the success of our clients, our investors and our people.

  • Fannie Mae - Bronze Sponsor

     

    For over 30 years, Fannie Mae Multifamily has been a reliable source of mortgage capital for the secondary mortgage market. Our Delegated Underwriting and Servicing (DUS®) model is the premier financing platform in the multifamily market. Delegation, risk-sharing, and life-of-loan servicing are the pillars that support our platform, and because of them we are able to make workforce rental housing possible in every market, every day.

    DUS serves a wide spectrum of the multifamily market, including conventional, rent-restricted, cooperatives, seniors housing, student housing, and manufactured housing communities. Whether your borrower is looking to finance a rent-restricted property or to make energy- and water-saving property improvements, Fannie Mae's Multifamily Affordable Housing and Green Financing products can help. We can also help your borrowers achieve their portfolio strategies through our Structured Transactions execution. Contact your Fannie Mae representative today.

  • Freddie Mac - Bronze Sponsor

     

    Multifamily GSE

  • Gantry - Bronze Sponsor

     

    At Gantry, independent thinking is in our genes. As a privately held firm, we take an intentional approach to everything we do. So, as our industry consolidates and becomes less personal, we push ourselves to ignore convention, to set a high standard and to always prioritize people ahead of profits. With over 30 years of experience of loan production and managing an $18 billion national servicing portfolio, our firm leverages a well-established correspondent-driven platform to construct the best financing solutions for our clients. For those seeking a partner that delivers more, we’re a little different. The right kind of different.

  • Green Street - Bronze Sponsor

     

  • JPMorgan Chase - Bronze Sponsor

     

  • Matthews Real Estate Investment Services - Bronze Sponsor

     

    Matthews Real Estate Investment Services™, a commercial real estate investment services and technology firm, holds recognition as an industry leader in investment sales, leasing, and debt and structured finance. Matthews™ delivers superior results through the firm’s industry revered work ethic, unique culture, collaboration, and advanced technology. Since 2015, Matthews™ has experienced unprecedented growth adding over 600+ real estate professionals to serve clients. Founded in El Segundo, CA, and strategically positioned in 20+ offices across the United States, Matthews™ continues to expand into new markets. Matthews™ redefines what clients expect by accelerating the evolution of how the commercial real estate industry services clients through technology. By leveraging technology and industry-leading resources, Matthews™ is committed to growing and preserving client wealth and adding value to their investment strategy.

  • Meridian Capital Group - Bronze Sponsor

     

    Founded in 1991, Meridian Capital Group is America's most active dealmaker and one of the nation's leading commercial real estate finance, investment sales and retail leasing advisors. In 2017, Meridian closed over 3,000 transactions across more than 200 unique lenders and sold nearly $1 billion in commercial property. Meridian represents many of the world's leading real estate investors and developers and the company's expansive platform has specialized practices for a broad array of property types including office, retail, multifamily, hotel, mixed-use, industrial, and healthcare and senior housing properties. Meridian is headquartered in New York City with offices in New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, Florida, and California.

  • Morgan Stanley - Bronze Sponsor

     

    Morgan Stanley's Commercial Real Estate Lending Group has been a premiere capital provider for over 20 years. Senior members of the team each bring over 25 years of real estate experience and have worked together for the past 12-16 years. Experience, creativity and strong relationships have allowed Morgan Stanley to originate over $150 Billion of commercial real estate loans since 1997.

  • NewPoint Real Estate Capital - Bronze Sponsor

     

    NewPoint Real Estate Capital is a prominent commercial real estate finance company delivering lending solutions to investors of multifamily, affordable housing, seniors housing and care, and manufactured housing properties nationwide. Leveraging technology, data, capital, and the expertise of its industry-leading team, NewPoint provides loan origination, servicing, execution, and a suite of Agency and curated proprietary products to meet the evolving needs of borrowers. In addition to being a Fannie Mae DUS®, Freddie Mac Optigo®, and FHA/HUD MAP and LEAN Lender, NewPoint offers proprietary bridge and affordable housing financing, as well as third-party placement solutions.

  • Peachtree Group - Bronze Sponsor

     

  • Red Oak Capital Holdings - Bronze Sponsor

     

    Red Oak Capital Holdings, LLC is a group of commercial real estate capital entities that lends and invests in all asset classes, raising capital through both retail and institutional channels. The national finance company is anchored on a strong team that collectively delivers more than 230 years of commercial real estate lending, servicing, workout, and turnaround experience. A debt fund sponsor, Red Oak specializes in providing short-term, structured financing solutions from $1 –$20M for commercial real estate projects in primary, secondary, and select tertiary markets.
    The demand for non-bank lending solutions over the past several years has positioned Red Oak as one of the nation’s leading bridge lenders, with over $350 million in assets under management and commitments from both retail and institutional investors. Leveraging established proprietary deal sourcing channels and utilizing institutional-quality underwriting and structuring capabilities, the Red Oak team has successfully navigated through eight market cycles and executed more than $5 billion in transactions across the U.S. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with offices in Irvine, California, Stamford, Connecticut, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

  • Societe Generale - Bronze Sponsor

     

    Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth. Committed to the positive transformations of the world’s societies and economies, Societe Generale and its teams seek to build, day after day, together with its clients, a better and sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions.

    Active in the real economy for 160 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 126,000 members of staff in 65 countries and supports on a daily basis 25 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions.

    At the heart of linking issuers and investors, Societe Generale’s Asset Backed Products offering is the centre of expertise and single entry point for engineering, distribution and trading of securitised products, trade receivables and structured loans. Activity is exclusively focused on clients within financial institutions and corporates, as well as private equity firms. By embracing an orderly and disciplined manner all structured credit activities on a global scale allows Societe Generale to deliver tailor-made credit backed solutions for clients.

    For more information, visit www.societegenerale.com.

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