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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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Brian Kimmel

Brian is a member of:
Team Kimmel

Assistant Vice President, Commercial Financing

brian.kimmel@firstnational.ca

416.593.2916

Seniors specialist. Relationship builder. Transparent communicator.

Brian has been a part of the First National Financial commercial team for the past 26 years, and has originated more than $6 billion in commercial financing.

For Brian, clients are for life. It’s an ongoing, enduring and evolving relationship that grows over time, deal by deal, goal by goal.

Brian is a foremost specialist in apartments and seniors housing. During the past 20 years, he’s seen every type of deal that there is to see so he knows the positive precedents. His clients benefit from his vast experience as well as his commitment to them -- to knowing their businesses and to understanding the intricacies of their strategies.

Known and highly respected for his transparency and candor, Brian’s clients trust him implicitly and see him as more than a lender. To them, he is a key business advisor and critical member of their teams.