Current Reports

Small Multifamily Investment Trends Report Q2 2025

While markets undergo rapid recalibration, the small multifamily market’s performance remains strong and stable. Arbor’s Small Multifamily Investment Trends Report Q2 2025, developed in partnership with Chandan Economics, details how the sector’s resilient fundamentals effectively support its growth amid ongoing economic volatility.

Proprietary Preferred Equity behind Conventional Loans

FREDDIE MAC® Proprietary Preferred Equity behind Conventional Loans Arbor now offers access to proprietary preferred equity behind all Freddie Mac Conventional loans we originate. With Arbor, you can simultaneously secure a senior loan and preferred equity under one roof, streamlining your experience throughout the lifecycle of your loan.

Analysis

Top U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets — Q1 2025

The U.S. multifamily sector finished 2024 with the wind at its sails, as the market settled into a more normalized cycle with emerging opportunities.

Analysis

U.S. Multifamily Market Snapshot — May 2025

The U.S. multifamily market continued to settle into a normalized cycle, despite ongoing uncertainties surrounding the global economy and labor market. There is a rising tide of optimism for the sector ahead and investors are continuing to take advantage of market opportunities.

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Dr. Sam Chandan Dissects What’s Driving Top Market Growth

In a rapidly evolving economic environment, the top markets for multifamily investment tend to shift quickly. In this video, Dr. Sam Chandan, founding director of the C.H. Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business and founder of Chandan Economics, discusses the findings of Arbor’s Top Markets for Multifamily Investment Report Spring 2025, which was developed in partnership with Chandan Economics.

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Arbor Celebrates Environmental Roots with Long Island and Buffalo Tree Plantings

Inspired to advance Arbor’s more than 30-year legacy of tree plantings, our Long Island and Buffalo teams recently planted saplings, adding to the over 20,400 trees planted and pledged throughout our company’s history.

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Top Markets for Rental Demand Growth

Population growth, a critical factor in assessing rental housing demand, increased 0.9% in the U.S. during 2024, the fastest annual rate since 2008. However, growth rates were much higher for many markets, especially those in Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas. As first explored in Arbor’s Top Markets for Multifamily Investment Report Spring 2025, we dive deeper into metro-level population growth in markets with at least 500,000 residents to find the nation’s top markets for rental housing demand growth.

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Arbor Recognized for Excellence from Agency Partners

Arbor’s platform of diverse multifamily financing solutions, combined with our strong industry relationships and our commitment to accuracy and close collaboration with our government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) partners, drives us to the top of the multifamily lender rankings year after year. Through decades-long relationships with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA, our best-in-class team delivered results for our borrowers in 2024, propelling Arbor to the top of the partner rankings.

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Sean Lucy

Senior Vice President, Structured Finance Underwriter

Sean Lucy is responsible for the structuring, underwriting and closing of Arbor’s more complex, high-profile transactions as well as those requiring an enhanced level of analysis, diligence and understanding.

Mr. Lucy joined Arbor as Vice President, Structured Finance Underwriter, in 2017. In this role, he performed all aspects of financial analysis, underwriting and loan structuring, including statement analysis, risk assessment, projections, sensitivity analysis, industry and management assessments, collateral analysis and credit approval documentation. He has worked on numerous portfolios and some of the largest transactions Arbor’s Bridge group has executed. Before coming to Arbor, Mr. Lucy was a Director at Park Bridge Financial, LLC. He also held positions at Merrill Lynch and Black Equities Group, LTD.

Mr. Lucy holds a Master of Business Administration from the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University.