Metlife Real Estate Lending
Life company / insurer · New York City, Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston, Charlotte · active as of Jul 2026
Metlife Real Estate Lending has 21 commercial mortgage closings on record since Nov 2023, in 8 counties — most in New York (Manhattan), Travis, Tarrant. The middle half of its loans ran $25.3M–$91.3M, median $42M. Everything below is what the county record shows this lender did, dated to its last closing — not a credit box, and not a promise that it is lending on the same terms today.
Counted from the recorded mortgages that name Metlife Real Estate Lending as the lender: one row per loan, the originator of record only, every spelling the clerk used folded together (2 spellings, including a former name). The last 36 months, as of Nov 2026; 112 loans on file in all since Dec 2016.
Where Metlife Real Estate Lending lends
| County | Market | Last 36 months | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York (Manhattan) | New York City | 6 | 22 |
| Travis | Austin | 4 | 18 |
| Tarrant | Dallas–Fort Worth | 4 | 10 |
| Dallas | Dallas–Fort Worth | 2 | 19 |
| Denton | Dallas–Fort Worth | 2 | 4 |
| Collin | Dallas–Fort Worth | 1 | 10 |
| Bexar | San Antonio | 1 | 5 |
| Queens | New York City | 1 | 4 |
| Harris | Houston | 0 | 9 |
| Kings (Brooklyn) | New York City | 0 | 5 |
| Mecklenburg | Charlotte | 0 | 5 |
| Bronx | New York City | 0 | 1 |
A county links to its own lender page — every institution that has closed there, ranked, by property type and loan size.
Closings by quarter
Recorded closings in each of the last 12 quarters. A lender that stopped reads as stopped: the bars are what was recorded, quarter by quarter, nothing smoothed.
What it lends on, and how much
Collateral
- Unclassified524%
- Office524%
- Retail314%
- Commercial (general)210%
- Mixed Use210%
- Industrial210%
- Land15%
- Multifamily15%
≈ Denton and Tarrant publish no building class, so property types there are Circlemark's estimates from what is on record at each address, not the district's classification.
Loan size
- Middle half
- $25.3M–$91.3M
- Median
- $42M
- Largest single recording
- $365M
- Not tied to a purchase
- 33%of 9 classified
Recent closings
| Recorded | County | Collateral | Amount | Borrower |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2026 | Tarrant | — | $55M | on the signed-in profile |
| Apr 24, 2026 | Queens | Mixed Use | $34.5M | on the signed-in profile |
| Mar 19, 2026 | New York (Manhattan) | Office | $33.2M | on the signed-in profile |
| Dec 24, 2025 | New York (Manhattan) | Office | $91.3M | on the signed-in profile |
| Dec 4, 2025 | New York (Manhattan) | Office | $177.5M | on the signed-in profile |
The 5 most recent of 112 recorded loans. The signed-in profile lists all of them with the property, the borrower and when each comes due.
Names on the record
The clerk records the name on the instrument and never updates it after a merger, so loans under these names are counted here — each a reviewed decision, never a guess from the footprint.
- Metlife Commercial Mortgage Originator — lending vehicle, 51 loans · MetLife Commercial Mortgage Originator, LLC (Whippany NJ) is in MetLife's 10-K Ex. 21 beside MetLife Commercial Mortgage Income Fund LP: the originator for MIM's third-party commercial mortgage fund, the same MetLife Investment Management team. The three desks are the seed's METLIFE family.
Same parent, separate desk — kept apart on review because each lends on its own terms, and a broker calls one or the other:
- Metropolitan Life Insurance · Life company / insurer · 10 closings in the window
- Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance · Life company / insurer · 4 closings in the window
2 people on record at Metlife Real Estate Lending
1 originator or relationship manager, 1 who runs the firm or its lending — the commercial lending people Metlife Real Estate Lending's own team page, its announcements and the county's filings name, each cited to its source, with published work emails where there are any. And every one of its 112 recorded loans, with the borrower, the collateral and when each comes due.
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How this is counted
- Source of record. Every closing is a mortgage recorded with the county that names Metlife Real Estate Lending, or a spelling of it, as the lender. Loans where it appears as nominee, servicer or trustee are left out.
- One loan, one closing. A blanket loan over several lots, or a facility recorded once per property, counts once.
- Revealed, not stated. This is what Metlife Real Estate Lending has done, not what it says it wants. It has not told us its credit box, and this page never guesses one from the sizes it has closed.
- Dated. The window is the last 36 months to Nov 2026. Re-counted every six hours from the weekly re-read of the record. An institution has a page once it has 10 closings in the window.
How spellings become one institution is on the methodology page. The same count across a whole market, with the 25 most active lenders named, is in who lends on NYC commercial real estate and who lends on Texas commercial real estate.