Walker & Dunlop is a commercial real estate finance and advisory services firm operating across the United States and internationally from over 40 locations. Founded in 1937, the company has spent more than 85 years facilitating billions in annual transaction volume across multifamily, affordable housing, and commercial properties. In 2024, it ranked as the number one Fannie Mae DUS® producer, the third-largest GSE lender overall, and the fourth-largest Freddie Mac Optigo® lender.
The firm combines traditional real estate finance expertise with proprietary technology platforms, particularly WDuite, a data-driven system designed to improve client outcomes. Its service offerings span capital solutions and transaction facilitation across the full spectrum of commercial property types. With between 1,001 and 5,000 employees, Walker & Dunlop operates as a significant player in the institutional capital markets for real estate.
The company describes its culture as driven, caring, collaborative, insightful, and tenacious, with a stated mission to create communities through ideas and capital where people live, work, shop, and play. It has been recognised as a Best Place to Work® and was included on FORTUNE Magazine's Fastest-Growing Companies list.
