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Ryan Smith and Betsy Blau has joined the affordable housing finance team in Walker & Dunlop's Nashville, TN office.

Walker & Dunlop Adds Betsy Blau, Ryan Smith to Affordable Lending Team in Nashville

Walker & Dunlop, Inc., has added Ryan Smith as senior director and Betsy Blau as associate director to the Nashville, TN affordable housing finance team.

The team is focused on growing the firm’s financing of affordable multifamily properties.

Bringing nearly 30 years of combined experience, Smith and Blau join Walker & Dunlop from Colliers Mortgage (formerly Dougherty Mortgage). Over the past decade, the team has provided financing for more than $2.5 billion worth of commercial real estate assets, including conventional multifamily and affordable housing properties.

“Ryan and Betsy have played significant roles in the affordable housing industry and will bring significant value to our team,” said John Ducey, SVP and chief production officer of Walker & Dunlop’s affordable lending group. “We are very focused on expanding Walker & Dunlop’s affordable housing debt and equity offerings, as evidenced by our acquisition of Alliant Capital in 2021.”

Photo, l-r: Blau, Smith

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About Lisa McDuffie

Lisa McDuffie arrives at ConnectCRE via REALTOR® world, where she served for nearly two decades as communications director for one of the nation’s largest REALTOR® organizations. She supported two membership-elected presidents who were commercial real estate practitioners, and managed the communications initiatives of the organization’s commercial special interest group. When not following the latest commercial real estate news, Lisa is zeroed in on her charismatic off-the-track thoroughbred as she makes the transition from an utterly failed racehorse to a lovely show hunter.

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