Brian Hughes-Cromwick Email & Phone Number

Lead industrial acquisition activity on the West Coast.

Portland, Oregon

Lead acquisition activity across major West Coast markets including Portland, Seattle, and Phoenix.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Valued in excess of $1.5 billion in commercial office real estate primarily focused in West Coast markets ranging from core-plus, value-add, ground-up development, and large-scale redevelopment opportunities using internal excel models, ARGUS, site visits, market data, and broker relationships• Restructured the firm’s financial model to include full-scale development functionality and improved investor waterfall flexibility, and integrated with existing company acquisition and ARGUS models• Worked with internal asset managers to run leasing, market, and reversion scenarios for portfolio assets• Wrote several investment memoranda to solicit equity capital from high net worth investors

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed and improved numerous elements of the Fannie Mae (FM) Monthly Economic Outlook including the interest rate forecast, adjustable rate mortgage share forecast, and mortgage originations forecast using regression analysis to better account for structural shifts in the U.S. housing market• Produced and published the FM monthly housing and economic forecast ranked annually by the Wall Street Journal and Blue Chip using the Macroeconomic Advisers 100+ equation model of the US economy• Developed the inaugural and subsequent economic scenario forecasts used for balance sheet stress testing as part of the Federal Reserve Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) administered by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) • Co-authored more than 36 Economic Developments Commentary detailing the state of the U.S. housing market and published to FM website over 50 weekly commentaries briefing executive management on economic, housing, and mortgage finance related metrics focusing on U.S. housing demand and our outlook• Delivered domestic outlook for U.S. housing sector highlighting structural shifts to foreign investor clients of FM securities• Presented original analysis of the Employment Situation Report and its implications for housing on the FM YouTube channel• Provided business units (e.g., capital markets, communications) with custom economic, housing, and mortgage finance data, analysis, presentations and forecasts for home prices, median incomes, demographics, etc., including at the regional and property level• Published two original research pieces on the outlook for household formation and recovery in household wealth and relative impact on U.S. housing demand

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), James A. Graaskamp Center For Real Estate

Activities and Societies: Real Estate Club

B.A., Economics, Political Science