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Forrest Speed
Forrest specializes in mortgage banking/brokerage with an emphasis on debt and equity placement. His primary funding sources are insurance companies, with commercial banks and securitized "conduit" lenders servicing as secondary sources. Multi-family assignments are most often arranged with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA/HUD. Forrest has also been active in the investment sales arena through his active Georgia real estate license. Forrest enthusiastically joined Colliers International in Atlanta in 1999 as a Vice President in the Capital Markets Group where he is responsible for mortgage origination and investment sales for the company's life insurance company, conduit, and owner clients. Forrest moved to Atlanta in 1988 after graduating from Vanderbilt University, accepting an offer at Bank South, where he worked in several positions over a three-year tenure. Forrest focused his career on commercial real estate beginning in 1991 when he returned to Vanderbilt, enrolling in the Owen Graduate School of Management concentrating in finance. While at Owen, he gained commercial mortgage banking experience at the Nashville-based commercial real estate firm of Dobson & Johnson, Inc. Upon completing the Owen MBA program, Forrest returned to Atlanta to work for six years in commercial mortgage loan production with Wilson & Nolan Southeast, Inc. During his employment there, Mr. Speed's production volume exceeded $150 million spanning a variety of property types including office, industrial, apartment, retail, and hotel.
