About Us
Our comprehensive CRE platform offers you both entity-level and property-level finance and advisory services.
Our Culture
Affordable, multifamily, industrial, and more…you name it and we have the skills and expertise to handle it.
Diego Benites
Managing Director
Diego A. Benites is a managing director of Originations at Walker & Dunlop Affordable Housing Equity, responsible for originating, structuring, and negotiating LIHTC transactions primarily in the Southeast Region.
Mr. Benites has closed $2.5 billion in housing investments, including LIHTC syndications, multifamily developments, and corporate finance transactions. Prior to Walker & Dunlop, Mr. Benites was a Senior Vice President of Equity Production at Boston Financial, and before that, he was a Vice President of Acquisitions at Boston Capital. Mr. Benites's past responsibilities included originations, investment placement, underwriting, negotiation, coordination of due diligence, and obtaining investment approvals. Before working in the affordable housing industry, Mr. Benites held development and corporate finance roles at Archstone-Smith, a publicly traded multifamily real estate investment trust.
Mr. Benites earned an architect diploma from the National University of Argentina, a master's degree in architecture from Syracuse University, and a master's degree in business administration from Dartmouth College.