SURMOUNT, one of the nation’s leading commercial real estate advisory and investment platforms, today announced that its Capital Markets division recently surpassed its 100th financing transaction, a milestone reached in the group’s first 16 months of operation. Since its formation in March 2025, SURMOUNT Capital Markets has closed more than $400 million in total loan volume, working with 30 different lending institutions on transactions spanning 31 states.

Launched under Christopher Marks, Senior Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets, the group provides debt placement and structuring services across acquisition financing, refinancing, construction and bridge lending and portfolio-level facilities. Working alongside SURMOUNT’s brokerage, sale-leaseback, lease advisory and development teams, the platform offers clients an integrated path from transaction sourcing through closing.

“Crossing 100 closed financings speaks to the demand we’re seeing for a capital markets team that understands net lease real estate as deeply as it understands debt structuring,” said Marks. “Borrowers are navigating a lending environment where debt availability has tightened compared to a few years ago, and our job is to bring the right lender to the right asset, even when that takes more creativity than it used to. Hitting this number at this pace tells us our relationship-focused model is working.”

The volume behind the 100-deal milestone reflects the breadth of the net lease sector. The division has arranged financing across industries including automotive service and car wash assets, quick-service and casual dining restaurants, convenience and fuel retail, pharmacy and healthcare-related real estate, early childhood education, industrial and logistics properties and single- and multi-tenant retail, working with borrowers ranging from individual owner-operators to institutional sponsors and multi-unit franchise platforms.

“This division was built to be a true extension of our Institutional Coverage Group and sale-leaseback businesses,” said Nicoletti DePaul, Chief Operating Officer of SURMOUNT. “The accomplishment of reaching 100 deals in this timeframe, across this many states and lending partners, shows what’s possible when financing expertise sits inside the same platform as the brokers and advisors who source the real estate.”

Against that backdrop of tightening debt availability, SURMOUNT’s Capital Markets division has built relationships with a diversified lender base spanning banks, credit unions, and non-bank lenders, allowing the group to match transaction structures to lenders with genuine appetite for a given asset type, geography, or borrower profile rather than relying on a narrow set of relationships.

About SURMOUNT

SURMOUNT is a full-service commercial real estate advisory and investment platform specializing in net lease properties, sale-leasebacks, lease advisory, development, capital markets, principal investments, and structured investment solutions. The firm provides institutional-quality advisory services to private investors, corporations, developers, family offices, and institutional clients nationwide. Since its founding more than 25 years ago, SURMOUNT and its affiliated companies have completed more than $45 billion in transaction volume across thousands of transactions throughout the United States. https://www.surmount.com/

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