Freddie Mac Names Top Multifamily Lenders for 2011

McLEAN, VA-CBRE Capital Markets, NorthMarq Capital and Berkadia Commercial Mortgage were the highest-producing multifamily mortgage sellers of 2011 for Freddie Mac, with the firms completing $4.13 billion, $2.14 billion and $1.68 billion in deal volume, respectively. Following these lenders were Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital, at $1.49 billion, HFF at $1.43 billion and CWCapital, which posted $1.41 billion in transactions.

All together, Freddie Mac reports, last year it purchased more than $20 billion in loans through these and other lenders. Or, to break down Freddie’s multifamily activity last year using other metrics: its financing volume touched 312,000 rental units and resulted in $14 billion in securitizations.