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We lend billions of dollars to commercial real estate projects every year. But it’s not just capital that distinguishes us. It’s the empowered nature of our workforce. Our advisors are experienced experts whose sole focus is to deliver financing strategies that enable you to achieve greater success.

Our Better Lending culture – three decades in the making – is built on the skill that comes from pure mortgage lending. Because we start from a position of knowledge about you, your project, and your market, we can design solutions that are fit for your purpose. And because accountability is in our nature, we meet our commitments.

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Jeremie LeBlanc

Jeremie is a member of:
Team Comeau

Director, Commercial Mortgages

Jeremie.Leblanc@firstnational.ca

902.818.9315

Knowledgeable. Client First. Value driven.

Jeremie joined the First National team in 2022, working with Team Comeau in Halifax as an Originator. For the past two decades, Jeremie has worked in mortgage lending and housing. Seventeen of those years were spent at CMHC, where he held roles in residential mortgage underwriting, business development, research and multi-unit direct lending.

Working with borrowers directly motivates Jeremie. He likes collaborating with entrepreneurial and visionary community builders that make a difference. Being service centric and client focused are Jeremie’s core values. He goes deep with clients to understand their needs, what drives them and what’s important to them. He then combines that insight with his unique understanding of CMHC – the intricacies of policies and procedures, risk management philosophies and what it takes to get an application approved quickly. In the years he spent in multi-unit lending, he focused heavily on affordable housing, which exposed him to a broad range of clients including cooperative housing providers, not-for-profits, community housing, private sector landlords and developers. He is well versed in what it takes to put together a complex financing package that drives value for an owner.

Working at First National, Jeremie is excited to join a market leading team with a solid foundation and long history of success. He appreciates that the leaders know the business intimately and are connected into deals firsthand. He is looking forward to having the freedom and encouragement to enliven his own client first philosophy in a culture that shares that core value.