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Anticipating a $2.5 trillion wave of economic actual property debt maturing between 2023 and 2027, Walker & Dunlop Inc. is launching a brand new credit score portfolio advisory service for lenders together with complete portfolio analysis providers, asset financing advisory, mortgage gross sales providers and funding gross sales advisory.
Run by its Capital Markets group, Walker & Dunlop might be leveraging its $121 billion servicing portfolio and nationwide funding gross sales platform, which has closed almost $40 billion of transactions within the final two years, to offer the providers to credit score suppliers.
Navigating financial challenges
The rise in debt maturities can also be coming whereas the CRE market continues to face financial challenges together with a rising rate of interest setting, excessive inflation, asset revaluations and a muted liquidity setting. With all these headwinds as a backdrop, Susan Mello, govt vice chairman & Group Head, Capital Markets Walker & Dunlop, mentioned it’s extra essential than ever for credit score suppliers to actively handle their portfolios.
Mello mentioned in ready remarks the Capital Markets group might be working throughout the broader Walker & Dunlop platform to guage and underwrite lender’s mortgage portfolios or particular person positions, decide the correct execution to maximise principal restoration of distressed property and market the sale of these property to the suitable purchaser pool.
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The credit score portfolio advisory enterprise might be overseen by the Walker & Dunlop New York Capital Markets group led by Co-Heads Aaron Appel, Keith Kurland, Jonathan Schwartz and Adam Schwartz. The group will work with credit score suppliers to switch current monetary amenities, promote or create liquidity for performing, sub-performing and non-performing loans and market REO property on the market, whereas structuring accretive options for purchasers to maximise worth.
Business actual property veterans Sean Reimer and Jordan Casella, who’ve greater than 40 years of expertise working as principals, brokers, bankers and credit score suppliers by varied market cycles, will spearhead the efforts.
Appel mentioned in a ready assertion the group started working with capital suppliers final 12 months within the second quarter to assist them successfully handle their credit score portfolios throughout an evolving capital markets panorama. He mentioned the group has positioned greater than $20 billion of credit score and fairness transactions to greater than 150 counterparties within the final two years. That features greater than $3 billion of fairness raised as properly, Appel added.
Regardless of a difficult setting within the second half of final 12 months, the Walker & Dunlop Capital Markets section sourced capital for transactions totaling greater than $21 billion from non-agency capital suppliers. The agency continues to be a high advisor on all asset courses for lots of the trade’s high builders, homeowners and operators.
