Bravo Capital Ranks #1 HUD Lender for Reliability with a 100% Closing Rate in 2025

The three largest HUD lenders by volume had closing rates ranging from 89% to 92% in the same review.

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Arbor Realty Trust (ABR) ranked among the top HUD lenders in a review of 2025 closing reliability led by Bravo Capital. Bravo closed all nine of its HUD firm commitments from 2025, totaling $201 million, for a 100% closing rate. Janover's August 2026 review used HUD records covering multifamily and healthcare firm commitments and initial endorsements. No closing rate or commitment count was given for Arbor.

Key Figures

HUD lender ranking: #1 Closing rate: 100% Firm commitments closed: 9 of 9 +4 more

HUD lender ranking

#1

Calendar year 2025

Closing rate

100%

Bravo Capital's 2025 HUD firm commitments

Firm commitments closed

9 of 9

Bravo Capital's 2025 transactions

Total commitments

$201 million

Bravo Capital's 2025 transactions

Largest lenders' conversion rates

89% to 92%

Three largest HUD lenders by volume

Multifamily production

Five commitments; $110.3 million

Bravo Capital's 2025 HUD production

Healthcare production

Four commitments; $90.7 million

Bravo Capital's 2025 HUD production

Key Terms

multifamily accelerated processing (map), section 232/223(f)

2 terms

multifamily accelerated processing (map) regulatory

"approved HUD/FHA Multifamily Accelerated Processing (MAP) and LEAN lender"

A U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program that fast-tracks review and approval of applications for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance on multifamily rental properties. It relies on experienced, HUD-approved lenders, standardized checklists and pre-reviewed documentation to shorten the underwriting process; for investors this means financing decisions and closings on apartment and other multifamily deals can happen faster and with less timing uncertainty, like using an express lane for a complex administrative task.

section 232/223(f) regulatory

"HUD's expedited Section 232/223(f) processing"

A Section 232/223(f) loan refers to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage-insurance programs used to finance existing healthcare and multifamily rental properties. Section 232 insures mortgages for residential care facilities such as nursing homes and assisted-living, while Section 223(f) insures mortgages for acquisition or refinancing of existing multifamily housing; together the label signals HUD-backed, long-term, non-recourse financing that affects a property owner’s cost and availability of capital. Investors care because HUD insurance changes risk, loan terms and liquidity much like a government-backed guarantee changes the rules on a mortgage.

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Every HUD Firm Commitment issued on Bravo Capital's 2025 transactions ultimately reached the closing table, according to an independent analysis of HUD's loan-level records.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Bravo Capital, a leading privately held commercial real estate lender and approved HUD/FHA Multifamily Accelerated Processing (MAP) and LEAN lender, today announced that it ranked #1 among HUD lenders for closing reliability in calendar year 2025, closing 100% of the firm commitments it received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Arbor Realty Trust (ABR) (NYSE: ABR) also finished among the top ranked lenders.

The ranking is drawn from HUD's own database of FHA multifamily and healthcare firm commitments and initial endorsements, as analyzed by Janover in its August 2026 review of the top HUD lenders. Among the ten lenders active on both the multifamily and healthcare sides of HUD's platform, Bravo Capital was one of only three firms for which every Firm Commitment issued on its 2025 transactions ultimately closed, converting 9 of 9 Firm Commitments totaling $201 million. By comparison, the three largest HUD lenders by volume each left roughly one committed deal in ten unclosed, with conversion rates ranging from 89% to 92%.

"Volume rankings tell you who writes the most paper. Closing rate tells you who actually delivers," said Aaron Krawitz, CEO and Founder of Bravo Capital. "A HUD firm commitment is only valuable to a borrower if it closes. We screen every deal rigorously before it goes to HUD, and we stay on it through endorsement. A perfect closing record is the direct result of that discipline, and it is why sponsors and their advisors trust Bravo with their most important executions."

Bravo Capital's 2025 HUD production was split between multifamily (five firm commitments, $110.3 million) and healthcare (four firm commitments, $90.7 million), with an average commitment of $22.3 million. The firm's certainty of execution is reinforced by its Bridge-to-HUD platform, which allows Bravo to fund a transaction on its own balance sheet today and take it into a permanent HUD loan on a defined timeline, and by tools such as the HUD Express Lane Qualifier, launched in August 2026, which gives healthcare owners an immediate read on eligibility for HUD's expedited Section 232/223(f) processing.

About Bravo Capital

Bravo Capital is a leading privately held commercial real estate lender headquartered at 780 Third Avenue, New York, NY. An approved HUD/FHA MAP and LEAN lender, Bravo offers a full set of HUD loan products for multifamily and healthcare properties, together with Bridge-to-HUD, preferred equity and mezzanine capital through its affiliated companies, including Bravo Property Trust. Since 2021, Bravo Capital and its affiliates have closed more than $2.5 billion in financing nationwide. For more information, visit bravocapital.com.

Source: HUD Office of Multifamily Housing and Office of Residential Care Facilities, databases of FHA firm commitments and initial endorsements, calendar year 2025, as compiled by Janover (multifamily.loans and hud.loans, published August 7, 2026). Closing conversion measured as firm commitments closed divided by firm commitments issued among lenders with at least eight commitments, $150 million committed, and activity on both the multifamily and healthcare platforms.

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