#45: How To Identify A Great Mortgage Broker and Changes In Multifamily Financing Due To COVID-19 with Anton Mattli

Are you looking to learn more about the world of multifamily financing? If so, you’ll want to listen to this episode with Anton Mattli of Peak Financing - we discuss the current debt market, the current financing market, and much more regarding multifamily financing in the pre-covid and post-covid environment. Anton brings a wealth of knowledge to the business and has found great success as a commercial mortgage broker. Anton discusses how to work with mortgage brokers and the correct steps you can use to differentiate good mortgage brokers from average ones. He explains what a mortgage broker’s job actually is and discusses where we are at right now at this stage in the market cycle, as it relates to financing for multifamily properties.

Peak Financing CEO, Anton W. Mattli, has decades of experience in commercial and investment banking, private equity, and commercial real estate. After graduating from Zurich Business School in banking and finance, he held senior management positions at major financial institutions in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Zurich. During that time, Anton was heading a bank branch, managed cross-border teams, financed and restructured commercial real estate worth several billion U.S. Dollars, and oversaw loan portfolios consisting of aircraft and ocean transport vessels. Anton also directed the structuring of complex cross-border commodity and trade finance transactions for Fortune 500 companies.

Over the last 15 years, Anton has been advising family offices, high net worth individuals, as well as private investment funds, facilitating their direct investments in commercial real estate across Europe and the United States, including several hundred million dollars in multifamily developments and acquisitions.

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Show Notes:

2:40 Anton shares his background along with his previous experience as a professional in the finance industry, which led him into the commercial real estate business.

5:30 Anton describes his business model and core competency - commercial real estate financing and mortgage brokering for multifamily properties.

8:15 Anton describes what separates a good mortgage broker from just an average mortgage broker and how someone can tell the difference.

14:55 Anton explains what a mortgage broker does to qualify a buyer and lets them know what their options are as far as affordability.

19:05 Anton describes one of the most powerful loan products available for midsize multifamily properties.

22:30 We discuss the specific metrics that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need to see in order to process and close a loan.

28:15 Anton discusses how the financing for multifamily real estate has changed due to the hot market right now, and what the main differences are from pre-covid times.

32:50 Anton shares the main skills that he attributes to his success in the real estate busine