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.
Chris Forte
Managing Director
With over 15 years of commercial real estate experience, Chris Forte, Managing Director, is responsible for nationwide loan originations out of Walker & Dunlop’s, Bethesda, Maryland office. Mr. Forte specializes in financing conventional multifamily, affordable, manufactured, seniors, and student housing and has participated in the origination of over $12 billion in loan production.
Previously, Mr. Forte served as Senior Vice President of underwriting operations and Deputy Chief Underwriter at Walker & Dunlop, where he led a team that successfully closed over $5.5 billion in multifamily real estate loans. Before joining Walker & Dunlop in 2011, he spent four years at Freddie Mac, where he held roles in Multifamily Underwriting and Multifamily Securitization.
Mr. Forte graduated from Georgetown University with a Master of Science in real estate and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia. Beyond the company, Mr. Forte is a member of Urban Land Institute (ULI). He has three children and lives in Washington, D.C.