Christopher Apone

Christopher Apone

Managing Director, Berkadia

Miami, FL 33131

Phone (305) 373-6650

Specialties
Investment Sales Broker
Property Types
Industrial, Office, Multi-Family
Markets
South Florida
Bio
Chris Apone is Managing Director of Mortgage Banking at Berkadia, based in the firm’s Miami, FL office.  With nearly 16 years of commercial real estate finance expertise, he specializes in providing capital solutions for a variety of asset types, with a particular focus on multifamily and office properties throughout the country. Chris has extensive experience working with a variety of lender types including agency lenders (Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae), structured finance sources, life insurance companies, CMBS/Wall Street, and non-recourse bank lenders. With extensive experience in both the underwriting and marketing of commercial real estate assets, Chris brings both a technical and creative approach to each deal. In 2017 he was directly involved in $700 million of finance deal volume and has been involved in more than $12 billion in real estate sale and finance transactions over the course of his career. Prior to joining Berkadia, Chris served as Senior Vice President within CBRE’s Capital Markets Debt & Structured Finance Division. Chris started his career as a market research analyst at Cushman & Wakefield and shortly after was recruited by CBRE to work with a top producing capital markets team where he was involved in over $5 Billion of office and industrial investment sale assignments on behalf of institutional clients. ULI
Education
University of Miami Herbert Business School, MBA, Finance
Affiliations
  • MBA - Mortgage Bankers Association
Awards
2015 Daily Business Review Top Dealmaker - Office
2014 CBRE – Top 25 Producer in State of Florida; Million $ Club; and
Financing of the Year
2014 Daily Business Review Top Dealmaker - Industrial
2012 Daily Business Review Top Dealmaker - Multifamily
2009 Winner of NAIOP’s South Florida Office Sale of the Year Award and Finalist for Office Broker of the Year Award