Top Ten U.S. Commercial Mortgage Originators of 2015 Revealed

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According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's commercial and multifamily real estate finance league tables -- Wells Fargo; Eastdil Secured, JP Morgan Chase & Company; HFF L.P.; Meridian Capital Group, LLC; Bank of America Merrill Lynch; CBRE Capital Markets, Inc.; PNC Real Estate; Key Bank; and Capital One Financial Corp. were the top commercial, multifamily mortgage originators in 2015.

The MBA report, Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Firms - Annual Origination Volumes, is the only one of its kind to present a comprehensive set of listings of 126 different commercial/multifamily mortgage originators, their 2015 volumes and the different roles they play.  The report presents origination volumes in more than 140 categories, including by role, by investor group, by property type, by financing structure type, and by the location of the originating office.

Ten different companies were at the top of the 11 lists reporting total originations by investor groups:

• Wells Fargo topped the list of total origination volumes

• Eastil Secured, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., and JP Morgan Chase & Company were the top originators for commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS)

• JP Morgan Chase & Company, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and PNC Real Estate were the top originators for commercial bank loans

• MetLife, HFF, L.P., and Prudential Mortgage Capital Company were the top originators for life insurance companies

• Wells Fargo, Walker & Dunlop, and Berkadia were the top originators for Fannie Mae

• Berkadia, CBRE Capital Markets, Inc., and Walker & Dunlop were the top originators for Freddie Mac

• Berkadia, Red Mortgage Capital, LLC, and Wells Fargo were the top originators for FHA/Ginnie Mae

• TIAA, Cushman & Wakefield, and CBRE Capital Markets, Inc. were the top originators for pension funds

• CBRE Capital Markets, HFF, L.P., and Cushman & Wakefield were the top originators for credit companies

• Key Bank, Capital One Financial Corp., and Eastdil Secured were the top originators for REITS, Mortgage REITS, and Investment Funds

• JLL, Meridian Capital Group, LLC, and Mesa West Capital, LLC were the top originators for specialty finance;

• Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., and HFF, L.P. were the top originators for the "other investors" category

 
By dollar volume, the top five originators for third parties in 2015 were Eastdil Secured; HFF, L.P.; Meridian Capital Group, LLC; CBRE Capital Markets; and Wells Fargo.

The top five lenders in 2015 were Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase & Company, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Key Bank, and Capital One Financial Corp.