WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fannie Mae closed 2025 with a 34 percent year-over-year increase in multifamily loan volume. The agency provided approximately $74 billion in financing last year (compared with $55 billion in 2024), the highest figure since 2020. More than $8.3 billion funded affordable housing transactions, a 31 percent increase from 2024. Forty percent of all deals in 2025 were executed under Fannie Mae’s delegated underwriting model. The top-five DUS lenders last year were Walker & Dunlop ($8.95 billion); Wells Fargo ($7.75 billion); CBRE ($7.47 billion); Berkadia ($7.04 billion); and Newmark ($5.56 billion). The top-five DUS producers for affordable housing in 2025 were Wells Fargo, Berkadia, CBRE, Walker & Dunlop and Merchants Capital.
Fannie Mae expects to top its 2025 multifamily lending volume this year. The agency has an $88 billion capital allocation cap in 2026. The 2025 cap was $73 billion.
Fannie Mae Multifamily Loan Volume Rose 34 Percent in 2025
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