Warren Buffett Mortgage Firm Opens Commercial Lending Division

Oct 18, 2017

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Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Inc., a division of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway business empire that specializes in consumer manufactured housing, has created a commercial lending division.

The new division will offer commercial financing in select states, with a lending range between $1 million to $5 million. The division’s borrowers will be land-lease communities, including communities and parks serving this housing sector. Maryville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt will approach this business as a portfolio lender and servicing the loans it originates.

“Manufactured housing is providing a solution to the affordable housing crisis,” said Eric Hamilton, president of Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance. “We are very excited to launch this division which will help owners of land-lease communities provide more access to high-quality, low-cost housing options.”

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Oct 18, 2017

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