Industry Veterans from Berkadia Join NKF, Bolstering Healthcare Group

From left: Heidi Brunet, Lisa Lautner/ Photos provided by Newmark Knight Frank

NEW YORK CITY—Newmark Knight Frank has lured two experienced senior housing debt and structured finance originators from Berkadia, a Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies Financial Group company. The brokerage is the largest non-bank, commercial mortgage servicer in the country. Heidi Brunet and Lisa Lautner are joining NKF as executive managing directors, both coming from Berkadia’s office in Southport, North Carolina.

Together totaling experience of nearly 40 years, the two have originated over $8 billion in combined seniors housing-related financings in the last seven years on behalf of some of the nation’s largest and most active industry sponsors. In 2018, their combined businesses grew to become the #1 Fannie Mae and #3 Freddie Mac senior housing volume lender nationwide.