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Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital, LLC hires Donahue as senior vice president in new Boston office

Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital, LLC (Bellwether Enterprise), the commercial and multifamily mortgage banking subsidiary of Enterprise Community Investment, Inc., has hired Paul Donahue as senior vice president. Donahue will be based in Bellwether Enterprise's newly created Boston office as part of the company's production team. He will focus on loan originations in N.E. and the N.Y. region as well as national institutional accounts. Donahue joins Bellwether Enterprise from Centerline Capital Group where he was managing director responsible for mortgage banking origination in N.E. and national institutional accounts. Since 2010, Donahue has closed $700 million in multifamily transactions nationally with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as well as many investment sales transactions. "Paul brings a broad scope of experience and long standing relationships, specifically on the agency side of loan production. We welcome him to Bellwether Enterprise to head our new production operation in Boston as we continue to expand to the four corners of the country," said Ned Huffman, president of Bellwether Enterprise. Donahue is a graduate of Harvard College in Cambridge, and has a masters in business administration from the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute: Multi-Family Council, the Greater Boston Real Estate Finance Association (REFA, RHA), Pension Real Estate Association and served on Former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's Green Building Committee. Bellwether Enterprise has flexible financing solutions for customers across all commercial and multifamily property types.
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