KETTLER, the Washington, D.C. area’s award-winning real estate development and property management company, has named Stephanie Polyzois Vice President of Debt Finance.
With more than 30 years of experience, Polyzois is an expert in the multifamily housing market who will lead all debt financing activities of KETTLER’s extensive real estate portfolio. Her responsibilities include originating, negotiating, underwriting and documenting credit facilities, including: secured and unsecured lines of credit, bridge facilities, construction loans and acquisition loans. She also provides facility and access to capital markets and investment banking services.
“Stephanie’s knowledge of financing and capital markets in housing and multifamily is unparalleled,” said Usha Chaudhary, KETTLER’S President and Chief Operating Officer. “We are pleased to name her to this pivotal position which is key to our continued growth and success. Her talents and experience are exceptional, and I expect that her impact will be immediate.”
Polyzois has extensive experience originating and underwriting multifamily debt through broker and banker networks. She has considerable proficiency in both market rate and affordable multifamily properties and a broad background in the multifamily industry with underwriting, risk management and credit.
Polyzois comes to KETTLER from PNC and has previous experience with Alliant Capital, Wachovia Multifamily Capital, Johnson Capital, and Green Park Financial. Throughout her career, she has worked for major national banks and finance and investment companies originating multifamily, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, FHA and balance sheet loans. She built and managed a successful lending platform for a Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting and Servicing (DUS) lender by developing procedure and processes, hiring and managing staff, and expanding relationships with correspondents and direct business sources.
Polyzois graduated from Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., a Master of Arts in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Loyola College in Baltimore.
She volunteers at the Children’s Inn at National Institutes of Health, and at Bethesda Cares, an organization dedicated to ending homelessness in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Since its start in Tysons, Va. in 1977, KETTLER has grown into a regional powerhouse that owns and manages residential and mixed-use projects throughout the mid-Atlantic and select locations in the south, including Texas, Florida and the Carolinas. In the Washington, D.C. region, it recently openedReed Row luxury apartments in Adams Morgan neighborhood, Element 28 Apartments in Bethesda (which took top honors in the Design and Architecture, Multifamily Boutique Construction category at the 2017 Great American Living Awards), the Highgate in Tysons, and TENm.flats Downtown Columbia.
About KETTLER
KETTLER and KETTLER Management are owners, operators and developers of apartments, condominiums and mixed-use projects in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Headquartered in McLean, Va., the company has developed over 20,000 multifamily units, 5 million square feet of commercial space, more than 46,000 homes in 25 master-planned communities, and many of the region’s premier mixed-use communities. KETTLER Management successfully manages 30,000+ apartments for KETTLER and 3rd-party clients in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Texas, and offers a full range of services to corporate and institutional real estate owners. For more information, visit www.KETTLER.com.
