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Active Summer, Improving Rate Climate, and Sustained Lender Liquidity Drives Strong Third Quarter Production; Gantry’s Internally Directed Loan Servicing Portfolio Nearing $24 Billion   San Francisco, Calif. (October 22, 2025)  – Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., is reporting more than $2.735 billion of new commercial mortgage production and related equity placements this year through Q3 2025. At the same time, the firm’s internally

Austin Ridge in Los Angeles and Zach Wagner in Buffalo Take on New Roles as Loan Production Leaders at Nation’s Largest Independent Commercial Mortgage Banking Firm Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., has promoted two of its Associates to the role of Director with the firm’s market facing loan production staff. In their new roles, Austin Ridge and Zach Wagner will directly focus on developing, navigating and closing client assignments

By Charlie Kokernak Public and private stakeholders gathered in Portland to talk about reigniting production. Here are the key takeaways. In major cities across the nation, unmet housing demand is sparking a renewed interest in a public-private sector dialogue on where common ground can be identified to motivate future development. Case in point: A recent roundtable hosted by Oregon Governor Kotek and Portland Mayor Wilson brought developers, equity partners, lenders and civi