IRVINE, Calif. — NewPoint Real Estate Capital LLC has hired Sean Huntsman as senior managing director of seniors housing originations and Katherine Stewart as managing director and lead for NewPoint’s seniors housing agency platform.
The team will target expansion into the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seniors housing space in addition to originating proprietary bridge loan solutions for independent living and assisted living properties. Huntsman and Stewart will be based in NewPoint’s new Irvine office.
With a career origination volume totaling more than $5 billion, Huntsman brings more than 30 years of experience originating agency, bridge and construction loans for multifamily and seniors housing communities. He joins NewPoint from M&T Realty Capital Corp., where, as executive managing director, he expanded the bank’s West Coast healthcare lending group. Prior to that, Huntsman was an executive managing director with Barings Multifamily Capital, working to establish the firm’s seniors housing platform. He also held roles with PNC Real Estate and ARCS Commercial Mortgage.
Stewart has over 20 years of real estate lending experience, 15 of which have focused on building and managing agency seniors housing platforms. She has analyzed over 1,500 transactions during her career and has been instrumental in the origination and closing of over $2 billion in seniors housing loans. She joins NewPoint from M&T Realty Capital Corp., where she was a senior vice president focused on structuring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debt products. Stewart held prior roles at Barings Multifamily Capital, PNC Real Estate and ARCS Commercial Mortgage.
NewPoint acquired Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) in December 2021, which augmented the firm’s product suite to offer HUD/FHA multifamily and healthcare financing. The firm recently secured the No. 2 spot for initial Healthcare endorsements in the first half of HUD’s 2022 fiscal year.