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Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., is reporting an active H1 2025 for commercial mortgage production. Gantry delivered more than $1.5 billion of successful financings across the first half, with loan totals in Q2 2025 slightly above Q1. While Gantry continues to work consistently on refinances for maturing debt, a sustained uptick in property acquisition loans is an encouraging sign that normalized transaction flow is returning. Equally encouraging, Gantry’s internally directed, national loan servicing portfolio is nearing $24 billion through organic growth and continues to function at 100% of expected performance.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., is reporting consistent commercial mortgage production throughout Q1 2025, with the firm’s national portfolio of serviced loans increasing to nearly $24 billion. As the market absorbs significant realignment moving into Q2 2025, Gantry’s diverse roster of correspondent insurance companies and recently closed sources of commercial mortgage debt and equity remain active. Access to liquidity is consistent in an evolving marketplace as lenders continue to compete for their 2025 commercial mortgage allocations.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., is reporting $3.1 billion in commercial mortgage production for 2024, a total that closely aligns with the firm’s pre-COVID production numbers. The firm’s national loan servicing portfolio grew to $23 billion in 2024 through new loan placements and the strategic addition of servicing portfolios in the Midwest and Western markets, with mostly all loans on track to perform as expected in a challenging market cycle.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., is reporting a significant increase in new commercial mortgage production for Q3 2023, with a nearly 10% increase over both Q2/Q1 totals. While the recent Fed Funds rate cut infused some much-needed optimism into market sentiments, its impact has been marginal on commercial real estate lending rates with treasuries experiencing upward movement since the announcement. Regardless, rates remain at year-over-year lows and should continue to improve into 2025 barring unforeseen market disruption.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., reports steady commercial mortgage production through the H1 2024, with overall Q2 2024 production values essentially mirroring Q1 2024 totals. While market activity remains subdued in the cycle’s current rate environment, strong indicators point to increasing demand for new originations moving into H2 2024 as the market responds to pending maturities, price discovery, and an improving policy climate with less volatility.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., reported a steady and improving pace for commercial mortgage production in Q1 2024 as price discovery adjusts to a higher rate environment and timely maturities motivate new assignments moving into Q2/Q3 2024. Acceptance of a new ‘higher for longer’ rate environment, liquidity in the market from bank alternatives, and overall market health outside of the office sector have kept the firm hard at work successfully identifying relevant financing options reflecting the demands of the current commercial real estate cycle.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., concluded 2023 with its $18 billion national loan servicing portfolio operating with no delinquencies as of 12/31/2023 and continuing a trend maintained since 2020 despite challenges posed by post-COVID disruptions and structural asset shifts. Despite facing rapid increases in debt costs and experiencing a slowdown in new loan production throughout the year, Gantry excelled in securing high-quality loans across various asset classes, including refinance, acquisition, bridge, and construction.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., is reporting a steady pace for new loan production through Q3 2023, although current volume remains lower year-over-year after a record 2022. The volume and pace of new production is increasing into Q4 2023, driven by a significant number of rate locked transactions expected to close by year-end, upcoming maturities, and the emergence of price discovery for assets in a new era of higher interest rates.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., is experiencing a year-over-year decrease in commercial mortgage production through H1 2023. Volatile commercial real estate markets have remained consistent since H1 2022 as market participants continue to grapple with price discovery, higher rates, maturing loans, distress, disrupted fundamentals, and banking fallout.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., is reporting that loan production for Q1 2023 was down significantly from 2022 and 2021’s record highs, reflecting a sustained market slowdown that carried over from Q4 2022 due to rate volatility, negative leverage, and a myriad of related market disruptions. As rates have started to stabilize moving into Q2 2023, Gantry is already seeing an increase in transactional activity and advisory requests with expectation that the pace of new originations will increase moving into Q2 2023.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., has completed $4.93 billion of commercial mortgage production in 2022. Despite macroeconomic headwinds and the subsequent volatility in financial markets, Gantry’s 2022 performance neared its record production total of $5.15 billion in 2021, with 2022 becoming the firm’s second strongest production year across three decades of continuous commercial mortgage banking operations.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., is reporting $4.0 billion of commercial mortgage production through the close of Q3 2022, showing more than 10% year-over-year growth in total production value from the same period. Additionally, the firm continues to see 100% performance post-COVID for its $18 billion national portfolio of serviced loans encompassing all commercial asset classes, reflecting the strength of the firm’s underwriting with its correspondent and affiliated lenders.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., completed $2.8 billion of commercial mortgage production in the first half of 2022, exceeding the firm’s 2021 first half production by $700 million. While this was a healthy level of production for the first half, surpassing Gantry’s internal forecast at the beginning of the year, expectations are for a steady Q3 2022 as buyers, sellers and borrowers reset, adjusting to new rates and challenges with macroeconomic realities.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., completed $1.07 billion of new commercial mortgage production across all major property types during Q1 2022. While market disruption from a range of significant economic forces is putting upward pressure on rates and tightening underwriting criteria, Gantry’s production totals met early projections for a healthy start to the year. Expectations remain for a productive year ahead with a broad spectrum of lending sources actively pursuing 2022 allocation targets, with variable rate allocations expected to increase substantially.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., completed $5.15 billion of commercial mortgage placements during 2021, marking the company’s strongest year ever for annual production totals. Strong performance from most commercial real estate asset classes post-pandemic, an active investment market, compelling incentives for refinancing assets at current valuations, and rates that remain at generational lows are expected to carry similar momentum into 2022.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., has completed $3.62 billion of new commercial mortgage placements during the first three quarters of 2021, including $1.5 billion in Q3 2021. Lenders are expected to remain active and competitive in the fourth quarter, with expectations that Gantry will well approach $5 billion in production by year end. Production totals reflect a highly favorable lending environment for borrowers and a strong appetite from Gantry’s lenders for placing favorable debt on qualified commercial real estate assets.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., has completed in excess of $2.1 billion of new commercial placements during the first half of 2021. This total reflects a highly favorable lending environment for borrowers across the spectrum of commercial real estate asset classes.

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., has secured $1.16 billion in new commercial mortgages across 115 unique transactions during Q1 2021. This represents a very strong quarter for the company in both total loan production and volume of individual loans. Expectations are that a still historically low interest rate environment, significant array of compelling loan structures and abundant capital allocations meeting a range of borrower priorities will continue to motivate strong production numbers in Q2 2021.