Dan Brendes serves as the SVP, Head of GSE Lending out of the DC Metro office. Dan is responsible for Berkadia’s GSE business lines and driving production through customer engagement, innovation, and process improvement. He has over thirty years of commercial real estate and capital markets experience in production and production management. Dan joined Berkadia in 2011 and is based in the Washington, DC area.
He is the current Chair of the Fannie Mae DUS Advisory Council, a Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) and past President of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Metropolitan Washington. Dan has a BA in Government from the University of Virginia, and M.S. in Real Estate Development from Johns Hopkins University.











































