Commercial/Multifamily Briefs, April 9, 2026

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Walker & Dunlop, JPMorgan Chase Bank Team on Self-Storage REIT Platform

Walker & Dunlop, Bethesda, Md., announced that it has arranged a $350 million aggregation debt facility with JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York, for a self-storage REIT platform sponsored by a joint venture between Centerbridge Partners and Reframe Holdings.

The debt financing provides flexible capital to support the venture’s strategy of acquiring and aggregating more than $500 million of existing Class A and institutional-quality Class B facilities, utilizing third-party property managers to drive asset-level performance and NOI growth.

The financing was arranged by Aaron Appel, Jonathan Schwartz, Mo Beler, Michael Brown, Christopher de Raet and Nicholas Gilhooley of Walker & Dunlop Capital Markets Institutional Advisory. Mo Beler and Jonathan Paine of Walker & Dunlop’s Equity and Structured Finance advised on the formation of the joint venture in late 2025.

It’s anchored by six seed assets owned by the joint venture, located in Milwaukee, Wis., Austin, Texas, Gainesville, Fla., Bergenfield, N.J., Syracuse, N.Y., and Rochester, N.Y.

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Experian Connect API Supports VantageScore 4.0 for Rental Screening

Experian, Costa Mesa, Calif., announced it has enhanced its Experian Connect API platform to offer VantageScore 4.0, Stamford, Conn., for use in rental screening. It will enable consumers, property managers, landlords and rental screening providers to leverage a more modern credit score when evaluating renters.

This follows the recent approval by the Federal Housing Finance Agency of VantageScore 4.0 for use in mortgage decisions.

Experience Connect API users will now be able to incorporate a score that uses trended credit data, rental payment history and alternative data to reflect consumers’ financial behaviors.

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