HFF, Wells Fargo Lead MBA 2018 Rankings of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Origination Volumes

The Mortgage Bankers Association this week released its annual list of top commercial/multifamily mortgage originators, with HFF, Wells Fargo and CBRE Capital Markets leading the way in 2018.

The annual MBA Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Firms Annual Origination Volumes study presents a comprehensive set of listings of 136 different commercial/multifamily mortgage originators, their 2018 volumes and the different roles they play. The report presents origination volumes in more than 140 categories, including by role, investor group, property type, financing structure type and by the location of the originating office.

MBA said by dollar volume, top five originators for third parties in 2018 were:

–HFF
–CBRE Capital Markets Inc.
–Eastdil Secured
–Meridian Capital Group
–Key Bank

The top five lenders in 2018 were:

–Wells Fargo
–Key Bank
–JPMorgan Chase & Co.
–Bank of America Merrill Lynch
–Capital One Financial Corp.

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

–JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Global Markets, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Eastdil Secured and Goldman Sachs led originators for commercial mortgage-backed securities.

–Key Bank, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase & Co. PNC Real Estate and Meridian Capital Group led originators for commercial bank loans.

–HFF, MetLife Investment Management, Eastdil Secured, PGIM Real Estate Finance and New York Life Investments led originators for life insurance companies.

–Wells Fargo, Walker & Dunlop, CBRE Capital Markets Inc., Berkadia and Newmark Knight Frank led originators for Fannie Mae.

–CBRE Capital Markets Inc., Berkadia, Walker & Dunlop, HFF and Key Bank led originators for Freddie Mac.

–Red Mortgage Capital LLC, Greystone, Berkadia, Walker & Dunlop and Wells Fargo led originators for FHA/Ginnie Mae.

–Nuveen Real Estate, Newmark Knight Frank, Barings, CBRE Capital Markets Inc. and JLL led originators for pension funds.

–Wells Fargo, CBRE Capital Markets Inc., Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp., JLL and Meridian Capital Group led originators for credit companies.