Brian Smalley

Brian Smalley is a commercial real estate lending banker with roughly two decades of experience originating and structuring CRE debt in major U.S. markets. He is listed as Senior Vice President — Commercial Real Estate Lending, East Coast at Amalgamated Bank, where he provides customized financing solutions to real estate sponsors, emphasizing "a solution tailored to their project's specific needs and circumstances." His lending focus spans multifamily buildings, cooperative underlying mortgages, bulk cooperative and condominium apartments, mixed-use assets, and office properties, typically in the $3–25MM range across the NYC, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. metro areas.

His career began at the NYC Housing Partnership, where he worked to promote the development of affordable housing in New York City. He later served as Vice President of Commercial Real Estate at M&T Bank before joining Amalgamated Bank in October 2010, where he rose to Director of Commercial Real Estate Lending and First Vice President. Public professional records (LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, The Org) indicate a Senior Vice President role at Apple Bank beginning around March 2022; Amalgamated Bank's own team/contact page and the Revere CRE platform, however, currently list him as an SVP in Amalgamated's East Coast CRE lending group — suggesting he is presently (again) affiliated with Amalgamated Bank. The stub email and phone number provided point to Amalgamated.

He holds an MBA in Real Estate Finance from Columbia Business School and a BA in History from Hamilton College. His long tenure combines affordable-housing roots with commercial bank underwriting discipline.

• Debt, not equity. He originates commercial real estate loans, not venture equity. Deal types include acquisition, development, refinance, and rehabilitation financing.
• Ticket size: roughly $3–25MM per transaction.
• Asset focus: multifamily, co-op underlying mortgages, bulk co-op/condo apartments, mixed-use, and office buildings.
• Geography: East Coast — New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. metros.
• Approach (his own words, via Revere): delivers "a solution tailored to their project's specific needs and circumstances" — i.e., structured, relationship-driven financing rather than commodity lending.
• Institutional context: Amalgamated Bank is a mission-driven, B Corp–certified bank with a large multifamily/CRE book and a stated focus on socially responsible lending, which shapes the kinds of projects it finances.