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March 24, 2014

Charting a Course Through a New Multifamily Lending Landscape

By Summer Gell

Published in Multi-Housing News Online

Investors need to plan ahead for the third-party due diligence requirements of lenders. Some of these requirements have changed.

Multifamily housing investors’ options for financing sources have been shifting
lately, and Fannie Mae’s recent major revisions to the Multifamily Selling and
Servicing Guide–which went into effect in February 2014–are adding another layer of complexity to the multifamily lending landscape.

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Summer Gell

Summer Gell

Managing Principal
Summer Gell is a principal at Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. who leverages her almost 30 years of experience and background as an environmental scientist to provide valuable solutions to her clients’ environmental and engineering due diligence needs. Summer is an expert on all things Freddie and Fannie, having worked on hundreds of agency and multifamily deals in recent years. She also serves as the national account manager for several CMBS lenders and life companies. Summer writes and speaks about issues that affect the CRE industry from her boots-on-the-ground perspective.
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