David Durning (Photo: PGIM)
PGIM Real Estate Finance — the commercial mortgage finance arm of Prudential Financial Inc.'s PGIM unit — says it originated $8.1 billion in commercial mortgage financing in the first half of the year and is out to use up about $7 billion more in lending capacity in the second half.
Both industrial lending and multifamily lending were strong, the unit says.
The unit provided about $7.5 billion in financing in the United States, and about $622 million in financing for deals outside the United States.
The unit did not provide detailed production figures for the first half of 2017, but David Durning, the unit's chief executive officer, called the first half "very strong."
"In the second half of the year, we plan to build on this momentum and target key sectors such as industrial and multifamily, which we believe will be the best performers at this point in an elongated real estate cycle," Durning said in a statement.
The unit did say that industrial mortgage origination was 33% higher in the latest half than in the comparable half of 2017.
The unit reported a year ago that it had originated about $1.2 billion in industrial mortgage financing in the first half of 2017.
Calculations suggest that industrial mortgage lending may account for about $1.6 billion of the total for the first half of this year.
