Bellwether Enterprise Boosts Affordable Housing Group

Bellwether Enterprise Boosts Affordable Housing Group
Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital, Cleveland, expanded its Affordable Housing Group by hiring Lundat Kassa as a vice president in Washington, D.C. and promoting three others to Executive Vice President: Victor Augusta in Raleigh, N.C., Jon Killough in Montgomery, Ala. and Jim Gillespie in New York.

Kassa is responsible for originating commercial real estate loans with a focus on senior living facilities and multifamily housing properties. She also originates hospitality, industrial, retail, manufactured housing, office and self-storage loans.

After launching her career in real estate financing in 2013, Kassa spent the last six years at Love Funding where she served in various roles and was involved in all aspects of hospital loan financing and in the credit assessment of senior living and multifamily loans.

Cushman & Wakefield Expands Seattle Valuation and Advisory Team
Cushman & Wakefield announced Kevin Nowadnick, Jennifer Forschler and Lauren Sanders have joined the firm’s Valuation and Advisory practice in Seattle.

Nowadnick has performed appraisals on commercial properties throughout Washington. His experience covers all types of assignments including multifamily residential, office, retail, industrial, land and proposed development. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield he was the Director of Commercial Appraisals at Lamb Hanson Lamb Appraisal Associates in Seattle.

Forschler has been appraising in the Seattle and Bay Area markets since 2005. In Seattle, her appraisal practice has been primarily in multifamily, where she has conducted numerous market studies, highest- and best-use studies and feasibility analysis as well as traditional appraisal work. In the Bay Area she worked as a generalist and appraised a broad range of property types including, retail, office, hotel/motel, industrial, self-storage, mobile home parks and special-use improvements.

Sanders joined Cushman & Wakefield from Kidder Mathews, where she was an associate appraiser. She began her real estate career in 2013 at Qval Property Advisors, LLC in Houston.