Thursday, November 17, 2011

Nontraditional Lenders Gain Multifamily Market Share - National Real Estate Investor

Multifamily housing is leading commercial real estate’s recovery with strong rent growth, rising values and high occupancies, which is enticing non-traditional funding sources—especially life insurance companies—to attempt to gain market share.

James Tramuto, the Houston, Texas-based executive vice president of Jones Lang LaSalle’s capital markets group, real estate investment banking, notes that major life insurance companies—including MetLife, Northwestern Mutual, Teachers, and Alliance—have been a big component of multifamily finance this year.

“A lot of these big life insurance companies began really competing, and competing hard, with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,” he says.

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