We are one of the leading commercial real estate finance companies in the United
States, with a primary focus on multifamily lending. We have been in business
for more than 78 years; a Fannie Mae DUS lender since 1988, when the DUS program
began; a HUD lender since acquiring a HUD license in 2009; and a Freddie Mac
Program Plus® lender since 2009. We originate, sell, and service a range
of multifamily and other commercial real estate finance products and broker
sales of multifamily properties. Our clients are owners and developers of commercial
real estate across the country. We originate and sell multifamily loans through
the programs of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, and HUD. We retain servicing
rights and asset management responsibilities on substantially all loans that
we originate for the GSE and HUD programs. We are approved as a Fannie Mae Delegated
Underwriting and Servicing (“DUS” ™) lender nationally, a
Freddie Mac Program Plus lender in 23 states and the District of Columbia, a
Freddie Mac targeted affordable housing seller/servicer, a HUD Multifamily Accelerated
Processing (“MAP”) lender nationally, a HUD Section 232 LEAN lender
nationally, and a Ginnie Mae issuer. We broker and service loans for a number
of life insurance companies, commercial banks, commercial mortgage backed securities
(“CMBS”) issuers, and other institutional investors, in which cases
we do not fund the loan but rather act as a loan broker. We also originate and
hold interim loans on our balance sheet and offer a proprietary CMBS platform.
We offer investment sales brokerage services, with a primary focus in the southeastern
United States.
Walker & Dunlop, Inc. is a holding company, and we conduct substantially
all of our operations through Walker & Dunlop, LLC, our operating company.
In December 2010, we completed our initial public offering. In connection with
our initial public offering, we completed certain formation transactions through
which Walker & Dunlop, LLC became a wholly owned subsidiary of Walker &
Dunlop, Inc., a newly formed Maryland corporation.
We originate, sell, and service a range of multifamily and other commercial
real estate financing products, including Multifamily Finance, FHA Finance,
Capital Markets, and Proprietary Capital. Our clients are developers and owners
of real estate across the United States. We focus primarily on multifamily properties
and offer a range of commercial real estate finance products to our customers,
including first mortgage loans, second trust loans, supplemental financings,
construction loans, mezzanine loans, and bridge/interim loans. We originate
and sell loans under the programs of the GSEs and HUD. We also originate loans
for our own balance sheet and loans that we intend to contribute to securitizations
led by large institutional investors. We retain servicing rights and asset management
responsibilities on substantially all loans made under the GSE and HUD programs
and some of the loans that we place with institutional investors. Our long-established
relationships with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, and institutional investors
enable us to offer this broad range of loan products and services. We provide
investment sales brokerage services to owners and developers of multifamily
properties. Each of our product offerings is designed to maximize our ability
to meet client needs, source capital, and grow our commercial real estate finance
business.
The sale of each loan through the GSE and HUD programs is negotiated prior to
rate locking the loan with the borrower. For loans originated pursuant to the
Fannie Mae DUS program, we generally are required to share the risk of loss,
with our maximum loss capped at 20% of the loan amount at origination. In addition
to our risk-sharing obligations, we may be obligated to repurchase loans that
are originated for the GSE and HUD programs if certain representations and warranties
that we provide in connection with such originations are breached. We have never
been required to repurchase a loan. We have established a strong credit culture
over decades of originating loans and are committed to disciplined risk management
from the initial underwriting stage through loan payoff.
We believe we are positioned to continue growing and diversifying our business
by taking advantage of opportunities in the real estate finance market.
We seek to profitably grow and diversify our business by focusing on the following
areas:
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Remain a Top Five Lender in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Executions. We intend
to further grow our GSE and HUD originations with the goal of maintaining our
status as a top five lender of GSE products and becoming a top five lender of
HUD products. We ranked as the second largest Fannie Mae DUS lender, and we
ranked as the fourth largest Freddie Mac Program Plus seller. Additionally,
we are a top loan originator for HUD. Our origination platform had approximately
45 loan originators focused on selling GSE and HUD products, supplemented by
22 independently owned mortgage banking companies with whom we have correspondent
relationships. We believe that we will have significant opportunities to continue
broadening our GSE and HUD origination networks in order to maintain or grow
our current market position. This expansion may include organic growth, recruitment
of talented origination professionals, and potentially acquisitions of competitors
with strong origination capabilities.
Continue to Expand our Capital Markets Business. We had 49 loan originators
in 16 offices focused on capital markets transactions across the United States.
We added 30 new loan originators to our Capital Markets team in November of
2014 with the acquisition of Johnson Capital, and we intend to continue to grow
our Capital Markets team to strengthen our market position and borrower relationships
to meet the expected increase in demand for commercial real estate debt origination
and refinance activity in the coming years. We intend to continue to grow our
national presence, to include additional offices focused on capital markets
products and originations. Continued growth of our Capital Markets group will
provide greater exposure to the overall commercial real estate market, expose
us to new correspondent relationships, and provide us with institutional access
to deal flow supporting our Proprietary Capital solutions.
Continue to Develop Proprietary Sources of Capital and Expand Our Product Offerings.
Since our initial public offering, we have expanded our product offerings to
include bridge financing for transitional properties, a proprietary CMBS platform,
and multifamily investment sales. We anticipate offering additional commercial
real estate loan products and services to our clients as their financial needs
evolve. We believe that we have the structuring, underwriting, servicing, credit,
and asset management expertise to offer additional commercial real estate loan
products; and we believe that cash on hand, together with third-party financing
sources, will allow us to meet client demand for additional products that are
within our areas of expertise, including multifamily and other lending for our
balance sheet or for our partnerships.
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