Ranking New York’s biggest real estate lenders

From the local banks to the global giants, a look at who’s funding the Big Apple’s real estate boom

From left: The MetLife building and 3 Bryant Park
From left: The MetLife building and 3 Bryant Park

From the November issue: Seven years after the global financial crisis, New York’s real estate lending market is back with a vengeance. But much has changed.

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Some of the biggest players of the pre-2008 years — Lehman Brothers and Wachovia — have disappeared. The former is gone for good and the latter is now a part of Wells Fargo, which late last month was publicly identified as the lead lender on a $2.5 billion loan for the purchase of the massive Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village housing complex. [more]