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Philip A. Melton is a Senior Managing Director in the Affordable Housing Debt division of the Affordable Housing Group of Centerline Capital Group (“Centerline”), a subsidiary of Centerline Holding Company.

Mr. Melton joined Centerline in May 2011 to lead and expand the production efforts within the affordable housing lending platform. The Centerline lending platform includes Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA executions as well as affiliated executions for conduit and bridge lending for multifamily housing financing. Mr. Melton has more than 15 years of real estate lending experience which includes commercial and multifamily assets involving construction, bridge, permanent loan, and tax-exempt bond financing.

Prior to joining Centerline Capital Group, Mr. Melton led the Affordable Housing and FHA teams with Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, L.L.C, leading the Affordable Housing platform for over eight years and leading the FHA platform for the past 18 months. Prior to Grandbridge, Mr. Melton worked for a number of national lenders in the Affordable Housing market as well as working as an investment banker for a regional financial institution in the Southeast. Mr. Melton has been involved with over $1.5B in real estate financings in his career including taxable and tax-exempt financings.

Mr. Melton graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of New Orleans. He has been a speaker at numerous Affordable Housing industry conferences and a contributing writer for real estate publications.