AGENCY LENDING
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac attorneys specializing in multifamily transactions across the U.S.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play an important role in multifamily real estate financing, providing a secondary market for real estate mortgages and supporting the growth of affordable housing. As long-term agency lending attorneys—advising and representing clients on everything from basic executions to more sophisticated, complex transactions and multiple property portfolios—Cassin has built enduring historical relationships with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and has earned a reputation as the firm of choice in the agency lending space.
Today, we are one of the leading real estate finance law firms representing Freddie Mac Optigo lenders and Fannie Mae DUS lenders.
A testament to the depth of our agency relationships and expertise, Cassin’s multifamily finance attorneys participate in the Freddie Mac Legal Advisory Council, the Fannie Mae DUS Legal Advisory Council, and are often selected to join agency legal forums and speak on various topics through trade association and media panels on multifamily finance.
Our team provides counsel on:
- Conventional multifamily financing
- Bond credit enhancement transactions
- Affordable housing transactions, including Fannie Mae Multifamily Affordable Housing (MAH) and Freddie Mac Targeted Affordable Housing (TAH)
- Seniors' housing transactions
- Manufactured housing transactions
- Small loan transactions
- Green loan program financing
- Structured finance transactions (including new loan originations, supplemental loans, borrow-up transactions and property additions, substitutions and releases)
- Portfolio lending transactions
- Multi-state real estate transactions
- Leasehold financing transactions
- Tenant-in-common borrower transactions
- Transactions with preferred equity providers
- Fractured condominium transactions
- Historic Tax Credit transactions