Charlotte's Multifamily Boom!

With more than a decade of experience in commercial real estate lending, Brett McGuire, senior vice president, is responsible for nationwide loan origination, based out of Walker & Dunlop’s office in Charlotte, NC. Mr. McGuire specializes in the origination of multifamily loans through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA and Walker & Dunlop’s proprietary bridge loan execution. Mr. McGuire has significant experience structuring transactions for conventional multifamily housing, as well as dedicated student housing, manufactured housing and affordable housing. Mr. McGuire joined Walker & Dunlop in 2003 in the Multifamily Finance underwriting department where he was responsible for underwriting over $800M in conventional and structured loan facility transactions. In 2007, Mr. McGuire joined the new loan origination group, and since that time, has been involved in over $1B of structured financings. Mr. McGuire was a loan officer at Wachovia Bank prior to joining Walker & Dunlop. Mr. McGuire is a Charlotte, NC native and graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Mr. McGuire has held the CCIM designation since 2007.

Lou Davis is the Director of Investments for Cortland Partners’ North Carolina portfolio, responsible for evaluating potential investments and managing the asset-level business plans across his regional portfolio. Lou brings over a decade of transactional commercial real estate, capital markets, and asset management experience to his role with Cortland's Investments team.

Grey focuses on the development, brokerage and leasing of office, medical office and infill residential projects. Previous experience includes serving as a partner at Mark Pierce Poole Properties (2001-2008), senior vice president of the Trammell Crow Company (1998-2000) and director of office leasing at Faison Associates (1992-97). Grey, along with Patrick Pierce and Jensie Teague, founded Selwyn Property Group in 2009. Since his first industry position at Childress Klein Properties in 1990, Grey has been responsible for the development of several million square feet of office, medical office, retail, and infill residential properties. Grey graduated from Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) a t the University of Virginia. He is a Licensed Real Estate Broker in North Carolina and South Carolina, and is the past President of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP). Projects that Grey has been involved with include 605 Lexington Avenue (infill office building in Charlotte, 800 St. Mary's Street (infill boutique apartment project in Raleigh), 1500 Kenilworth (infill townhome project in Charlotte), Park at Drexel (infill boutique apartment project in Charlotte), OrthoCarolina Medical Office Building (Charlotte), and Dabney Exchange Retail Development (Henderson).

Cristi Lewis is an audit partner based in CohnReznick’s Charlotte office. She is a member of the firm’s Construction Industry Practice. Cristi has more than 15 years of public accounting experience encompassing financial statement audits, accounting, business consulting, agreed upon procedures engagements, regulatory compliance and benefit plan audits. Her industry experience includes construction contractors, commercial real estate, residential multi-family housing, and governmental agencies (including PHAs). She has also worked with many small business clients. Throughout her career, Cristi has been tasked with planning and performing audit, tax, and agreed upon procedures engagements while also providing training, supervision and work reviews for audit associates. She has extensive experience planning and executing audits in compliance with GAGAS, HUD audit guidelines, and OMB A-133. Her real estate and construction industry experience includes commercial and multi-family residential, land development, specialty contractors and property management. She has also worked extensively on due diligence engagements for an SEC client relative to the acquisition of contractors across the country. Education: B.S., Accounting – University of North Carolina at Charlotte.