Last year, the country’s biggest originator of commercial real estate loans during 2014 maintained its grip on the No. 1 spot.
The nation’s commercial mortgage bankers and brokers originated an estimated
total of $497 billion in CRE loans last year.
U.S. commercial mortgage production during all of 2015
increased by roughly $100 billion compared to the previous year.
Among companies that
made the CRE loans, it was Wells Fargo & Co. that was the biggest lender in 2015.
That was according to Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Firms – Annual Origination Volumes from the Mortgage Bankers Association. There were 126 companies covered in the report.
The San Francisco-based company maintained its standing from 2014, when it closed
8,572 CRE loans originated for $50.278 billion.
No. 2 in 2015 was Eastdil Secured LLC. The wholly owed subsidiary of Wells Fargo wasn’t even on the list the prior year.
Eastdil was among the top-three originators of loans for commercial mortgage-backed securities and among the three-largest originators of CRE loans for real estate investment trusts, mortgage REITs and investment funds.
Next was JPMorgan Chase & Co., which slipped from second position in 2014. Chase also ranked among the biggest originators for CMBS and was among the three biggest originators of CRE loans for commercial banks.
After that was HFF LP, which was missing from the 2014 top-10 ranking. HFF ranked among the three-biggest originators for insurance companies.
No. 5 in 2015 was Meridian Capital Group LLC, also not among 2014’s top-10 CRE lenders.
No. 6 through No. 10 last year were
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, CBRE Capital Markets Inc., PNC Real Estate, Key Bank and Capital One Financial Corp.
