Summit Real Estate Advisors Inc. ("Summit") is a New York-based commercial real estate mortgage brokerage firm, which has correspondent lending relationships with life insurance companies, agency lenders (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac & FHA/HUD), Wall Street CMBS lender’s, and debt funds. Summit currently has offices in New York, Wyoming, and Arizona. Summit was formed based on realizing that most commercial real estate mortgage brokerage firms do not provide their clients with professionals with former lending experience. The experience gained from working at institutional lending platforms provides an intermediary greater insight into how lenders behave at different stages of the lending process and ultimately represents the most effective requirement in achieving successful outcomes for their clients - significant competency. Also, former lending professionals’ have completed robust compliance and ethical training required by federal and state banking laws, which Summit believes is a paramount requirement for financial intermediary professionals. For these reasons, every Advisor at Summit has prior lending experience. Summit is led by Gregory J. Porter, who founded the firm after a 20-year commercial real estate lending career working for various national lending platforms including as a former Director and Senior Underwriter for Deutsche Bank, AG, a former Vice President and Senior Underwriter for JPMorgan and as the former Director and Chief Underwriter of Barclays PLC with a $100.0 million funding signature authority. Over the course of his lending career, Gregory has closed over $4.0Bn in commercial real estate mortgages. He has significant experience in both stabilized, fixed-rate loans and land, construction, and value-add bridge loans. Gregory is a regular contributor to Inside Self Storage Magazine and was awarded one of Institutional Investor News’ 20 Rising Stars of Real Estate (2008). Where Institutional Experience and Main Street Culture Meet.