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BELLWETHER ENTERPRISE

1360 E. 9th St., Suite 300 | Cleveland, OH 44114 | 813.767.9903

Key Executives

Ned Huffman, President

Debbie Rogan, Executive Vice President

Todd Harrop, EVP & Executive Director, Capital Markets

Bellwether Enterprise is a national, full-service commercial and multifamily mortgage banking company that puts people and communities first. As a subsidiary of Enterprise Community Investment Inc., Bellwether supports its mission of creating and preserving affordable housing in thriving communities. With an unwavering commitment to regional expertise and unmatched customer service, the firm is making an impact beyond the bottom line. It provides a variety of loan products, including life insurance and pension fund money, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae DUS (multifamily affordable and market-rate housing), FHA, USDA and CMBS. With more than $10 billion in mortgage servicing assets and an annual loan origination volume averaging over $2 billion, Bellwether and its team are “Capital on a Mission.”

BERKADIA

521 Fifth Ave., 20th Floor | New York, NY 10175 | 646.600.7800

Key Executive

Justin Wheeler, Chief Executive Officer

Berkadia, a joint venture of Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies Financial Group, is an industry leading commercial real estate company providing comprehensive capital solutions and investment sales advisory and research services for multifamily and commercial properties. The firm is among the largest, highest rated and most respected primary, master and special servicers in the industry. As a Freddie Mac Program Plus lender, Fannie Mae DUS Multifamily Seller/Servicer, insurance company correspondent, and HUD, MAP and LEAN originator and servicer, Berkadia provides access to capital and flexible, customized lending and servicing solutions for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation and refinance of multifamily and commercial properties. It also provides interim and short-term financing through its Proprietary Bridge Lending Program.

CANYON PARTNERS REAL ESTATE LLC

2000 Ave. of the Stars, 11th Floor | Los Angeles, CA 90067 | 310.272.1500

Key Executives

Robin Potts, Director, Acquisitions & Co-Head, RE Investments

Maria Stamolis, Director, Asset Management & Co-Head, RE Investments

Canyon Partners Real Estate LLC is the real estate direct investing arm of Canyon Partners LLC, a global alternative asset manager with $24.6 billion in assets under management. Over the past 10 years, Canyon has invested more than $4.5 billion of debt and equity capital across 160-plus transactions, capitalizing approximately $11 billion of real estate assets, focusing on debt, value add, and opportunistic strategies. Canyon has established a broad menu of investment capabilities spanning property types, US regions, and project stages (including development, transitional and distressed/workouts).

CAPITAL ONE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

7600 Wisconsin Ave., Ste. 800 | Bethesda, MD 20814 | 855.933.6667

Key Executives

Jeff Lee, President, Capital One Multifamily Finance

Glenn Gallagher, SVP & Segment Leader, Commercial Real Estate

Capital One's commercial real estate group provides the resources of a top 10 US bank with the personal touch and entrepreneurial spirit of a smaller institution. Its comprehensive array of solutions includes Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA and balance sheet lending, and its customer-focused approach provides funds for the acquisition, refinancing and development of multifamily, seniors housing, office and retail assets. The firm's lending, investment, specialty finance and treasury management solutions allow it to tailor the right solutions for its clients' strategic goals.

CBRE CAPITAL MARKETS

2800 Post Oak Blvd., Ste. 2100 | Houston, TX 77056 | 713.787.1900

Key Executives

Brian Stoffers, Global President, Debt & Structured Finance

Chris Ludeman, Global President, Capital Markets

Jeffrey Majewski, Executive Managing Director, Debt & Structured Finance

CBRE Group Inc. is the world's largest CRE services and investment firm with more than 80,000 employees worldwide. Combining investment sales, advisory, financing and investment banking into a single, fully integrated global service offering across the spectrum of property types, CBRE Capital Markets is one of the most active firms in the US capital markets. In the past year, the firm was responsible for approximately $75 billion in sales volume and $40 billion in financing through nearly 5,500 transactions nationally.

CIBC

120 S. LaSalle St. | Chicago, IL 60603 | 312.564.6800

Key Executive

Karen Case, Executive Managing Director & President, US Commercial Real Estate

CIBC's US Commercial Real Estate/Real Estate Finance Group provides comprehensive, relationship-based banking for commercial real estate clients, including construction, interim, mezzanine debt and permanent debt on most property types, as well as CMBS and treasury management solutions. Through its global banking franchise, CIBC offers a full range of solutions and services to more than 11 million clients worldwide across its personal and small business banking, commercial banking and wealth management, and capital markets businesses.

ENVOY NET LEASE PARTNERS LLC

1363 Shermer Rd., Ste. 309 | Northbrook, IL 60062 | 847.239.7250

Key Executives

Ralph N. Cram, President

Stephen Counts, Vice President

Envoy Net Lease Partners provides short-term, high-leverage construction and bridge loans and joint venture equity financing solutions for single-tenant, net-leased properties located nationwide between $1 million and $7 million in value. Envoy offers four programs designed to help developers and investors secure the capital they need without the red tape: ground lease A&D loans; construction loans; bridge loans; and JV equity.

FANNIE MAE

3900 Wisconsin Ave., NW | Washington, DC 20016 | 800.7FANNIE

Key Executive

Jeffery Hayward, EVP, Multifamily

For nearly 30 years, Fannie Mae Multifamily has served the secondary mortgage market as a reliable source of mortgage capital. Since 1988, Fannie Mae and its lender network have provided more than $510 billion in liquidity to the mortgage market to finance in excess of 9.1 million units of rental housing, primarily affordable and workforce housing. Fannie Mae serves a wide spectrum of the market, including conventional, rent-restricted, co-op, and seniors, student and manufactured housing, and provides financing of all loan sizes.

FREDDIE MAC

8100 Jones Branch Dr. | McLean, VA 22102 | 703.903.2000

Key Executive

David Brickman, Executive Vice President, Multifamily

Freddie Mac provides a range of competitively priced, reliable loan products for the acquisition, refinance or moderate rehabilitation of multifamily communities. The agency funds quality, affordable rental housing nationwide, transferring most credit risk to private investors. In 2017, the GSE financed a record-setting $73.2 billion in loan purchases and guarantee volume, making it the top multifamily financier in the nation for the third year in a row.

GRANDBRIDGE REAL ESTATE CAPITAL LLC

200 S. College St., Ste. 2100 | Charlotte, NC 28202 | 704.332.4454

Key Executives

Thomas S. Dennard, Chairman & CEO

Matthew Rocco, EVP & National Production Manager

Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, a subsidiary of Branch Banking and Trust Co. (BB&T), arranges permanent commercial and multifamily real estate loans, services loan portfolios and provides asset and portfolio management through its broad investor base that includes insurance companies, CMBS investors, pension fund advisors, commercial banks and capital markets investors; and its proprietary lending platform, BB&T Real Estate Funding.

GREYSTONE & CO.

152 W. 57th St., 60th Floor | New York, NY 10019 | 212.649.9700

Key Executive

Stephen Rosenberg, Chief Executive Officer

Greystone is a real estate lending, investment and advisory firm with an established reputation as an industry leader, having ranked as a top lender in these sectors. Its range of services includes commercial lending across platforms including Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, CMBS, FHA, USDA, bridge and proprietary loan products.

HUNT REAL ESTATE CAPITAL

230 Park Ave., 19th Floor | New York, NY 10169 | 212.317.5700

Key Executives

James P. Flynn, President

Vic Clark, Senior Managing Director

Paul Weissman, Senior Managing Director

Rick Warren, Senior Managing Director

Michael Becktel, Managing Director

Hunt Real Estate Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hunt Cos. Inc., is a leader in financing commercial real estate throughout the US. The company finances all types of property, including multifamily, affordable housing, office, retail, manufactured housing, healthcare/senior living, industrial and self-storage facilities. It offers Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD and FHA financing in addition to its own proprietary loan products. Headquartered in New York City, Hunt Real Estate Capital maintains a servicing portfolio of more than $15.1 billion and has 240-plus professionals in 24 locations throughout the United States.

JPMORGAN CHASE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

277 Park Ave. | New York, NY 10017 | 212.270.6000

Key Executives

Alfred R. Brooks, Managing Director, Commercial Real Estate

JPMorgan Chase Commercial Real Estate provides property owners, developers and investors the financial resources they need for real estate investments, large and small. These include multifamily lending, commercial mortgage lending, community development and real estate banking services. The firm's hands-on, local-market approach ensures certainty in execution in any cycle. As such, its clients depend on the speed and efficiency of the comprehensive lineup of solutions and services available from across the firm. JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking's real estate strategy encompasses commercial term lending, real estate banking and community development bank operations. With an aggregate portfolio exceeding $100 billion and annual originations of more than $30.7 billion, the firm has one of the largest CRE portfolios in the nation.

MARCUS & MILLICHAP CAPITAL CORP.

19800 MacArthur Blvd., Ste. 150 | Irvine, CA 92612 | 949-419-3200

Key Executives

William E. Hughes, Senior Vice President

Richard Katzenstein, SVP & National Director

Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. provides real estate debt and equity financing nationwide for a full range of properties. Its platform offers national coverage with local execution. Through its long-term relationships with well-established and respected lenders, MMCC's professionals are able to secure the most ideal financing with the best rates and terms for its clients. In 2017, MMCC completed more than 1,700 commercial real estate financing transactions.

MERIDIAN CAPITAL GROUP

1 Battery Park Plaza, 26th Floor | New York, NY 10004 | 212.972.3600

Key Executives

Ralph Herzka, Chief Executive Officer

Aaron Birnbaum, Executive Vice President

Avi Weinstock, Executive Vice President

Founded in 1991, Meridian Capital Group is one of the nation's leading CRE finance and investment sales firms. In 2017, it closed over 3,000 deals totaling more than $32 billion in financing with over 200 lenders, averaging some $125 million per business day. Since inception, the company has closed more than $300 billion in financing through 50,000-plus transactions, with the full complement of capital providers, encompassing local, regional and national banks, CMBS lenders, agency lenders, mortgage REITs, life insurance companies, credit unions and private equity funds.

NEWMARK KNIGHT FRANK

7700 Wisconsin Ave., Ste. 1100 | Bethesda, MD 20814 | 800.229.6843

Key Executives

Jeff Day, Head, Multifamily Capital Markets

Michael C. May, Head, Multifamily Debt & Structured Finance

The result of the merger of Berkeley Point Capital and ARA, a Newmark company, Newmark Knight Frank's Multifamily Capital Markets team handles $28 billion-plus in transaction volume annually. A top five Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lender in 2017, the team is a recognized leader in multifamily financing for GSE, FHA and bridge, along with life company, bank, equity and CMBS products through partners and affiliates. NKF's servicing group maintains a $58-billion portfolio of over 3,400 loans in 49 states.

NORTHMARQ CAPITAL

3500 American Blvd. W., Ste. 500 | Bloomington, MN 55431 | 952.356.0100

Key Executives

Eduardo Padilla, Chief Executive Officer

Jeffrey Weidell, President

William Ross, President

NorthMarq Capital, one the largest privately held CRE financial intermediaries in the US, provides debt, equity and commercial loan servicing through its 36 offices nationwide. The firm has built long-term relationships with life companies, CMBS platforms and local, regional and national banks, with a long track record of multifamily loan origination through Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and FHA/HUD. NorthMarq closes more than $13 billion in CRE loans annually and services a loan portfolio of more than $52 billion.

PGIM REAL ESTATE

7 Giralda Farms | Madison, NJ 07940 | 952.356.0100

Key Executives

Eric Adler, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Cathy Marcus, Global COO and Head of US Business, PGIM Real Estate

Alfonso Munk, Chief Investment Officer, Americas

PGIM Real Estate is the real estate investment business of PGIM Inc., the global investment management businesses of Prudential Financial Inc. Redefining the real estate investing landscape since 1970, PGIM Real Estate has more than 300 professionals in 18 cities in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific with deep local knowledge and expertise, and gross assets under management of $69.2 billion ($49.5 billion net) as of June 30, 2018. PGIM Real Estate's team offers to its global client base a broad range of real estate equity, debt and securities investment strategies that span the risk/return spectrum.

PGIM REAL ESTATE FINANCE

655 Broad St. | 973.802.6000 | Newark, NJ 07102

Key Executives

David Durning, President & Chief Executive Officer

Marcia Diaz, Managing Director, Global Originations

Paige Hood, Chief Investment Officer & Senior Portfolio Manager

PGIM Real Estate Finance, the commercial mortgage business of PGIM, is an international full-service, commercial and multifamily mortgage finance business with $93.4 billion worth of assets under management and administration as of June 30, 2018. Leveraging a 140-year history of real estate finance, the company offers one of the most comprehensive lines of real estate finance products and originates loans for Fannie Mae DUS, Freddie Mac and specialized affordable housing programs; FHA; Prudential's general account; and other institutional investors.

PNC REAL ESTATE

The Tower at PNC Plaza | 300 Fifth Ave. | Pittsburgh, PA 15222 | 877.762.7775

Key Executives

Diana Reid, EVP & Head of PNC Real Estate

Scott Bassin, EVP & Head of Multifamily

Andrew Siwulec, Executive Vice President

PNC Real Estate is a leading provider of banking, financing and servicing solutions for CRE clients across the country. The firm's comprehensive array of capabilities includes acquisition, construction and permanent financing for public and private developers and investors; agency financing for multifamily and seniors housing; and debt and equity capital for affordable housing. And, through Midland Loan Services, it provides third-party loan servicing, asset management and technology solutions.

SITUS

150 E. 52nd St., Suite 4002 | New York, NY 10022 | 212.294.1300

Key Executives

Steven J. Powel, Chief Executive Officer

Nick Rudenstine, President & COO

Kenneth Riggs Jr., President, Situs RERC

Situs is the premier global provider of strategic business solutions for the finance and commercial real estate industries, trusted to evaluate, optimize, and manage critical assets and securities; from commercial and residential real estate, to small and medium enterprise and consumer lending. Based in New York City, Situs has offices across the US and Europe and has been involved in more than $1 trillion of real estate debt and equity deals.

WALKER & DUNLOP

7501 Wisconsin Ave., Ste. 1200E | Bethesda, MD 20814 | 301.215.5515

Key Executives

Willy Walker, Chairman & CEO

Howard W. Smith, President & Group Head, FHA

Walker & Dunlop is one of the largest CRE finance companies in the US, providing financing and investment sales to owners of multifamily and commercial properties. The firm offers deep industry knowledge, an unparalleled team of financing professionals, broad market coverage and excellent customer service—all inside a public company with a family culture. Walker & Dunlop's comprehensive suite of financing solutions allows it to originate loans for its own balance sheet and investment partnerships, or for sale to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, life insurance companies, banks and CMBS providers.

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