Pioneering Power

Walker & Dunlop has been an industry pioneer for nearly eight decades. And with its recent market moves, the Bethesda, MD-based firm is now one of the largest such organizations in the commercial real estate finance industry.

When Walker & Dunlop opened its doors in 1937, it was one of the first companies to use Federal Housing Administration insurance to make single-family loans. By the end of World War II, the firm was pioneering the use of Taft-Hartley funds—a trust fund established through collective bargaining between unions and companies to offer health and other benefits for employees—for mortgage and real estate investment.