Walker & Dunlop Hires Mark Washington to Expand Investment Sales Platform to Pacific Northwest

BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 3, 2026--

Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that Mark Washington has joined the firm as managing director of Capital Markets, Multifamily Investment Sales, based in Seattle. Washington will lead multifamily investment sales across the Pacific Northwest, marking Walker & Dunlop’s sales entry into one of the most actively traded multifamily markets in the country.

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Seattle was among the most active institutional multifamily markets in the U.S. last year, ranking No. 4 nationally in 2025, according to MSCI Real Capital Analytics’ multifamily market rankings. Washington’s addition means Walker & Dunlop now has boots on the ground in each of the 20 most actively traded U.S. multifamily markets. The Pacific Northwest region has long been a focus for many of the firm’s largest institutional clients, several of whom have been active investors in the market for decades.

“Our strategy is centered around patience and a long-term commitment to grow our multifamily Investment Sales platform with best-in-class talent,” said Kris Mikkelsen, executive vice president, co-head of Capital Markets at Walker & Dunlop. “Mark’s experience and advisory approach align perfectly with ours and we’re excited to have him lead our efforts in the Pacific Northwest. We gained significant market share nationally in 2025, and with Mark leading the charge in a new market for Walker & Dunlop, we’re confident that momentum will continue.”

Washington is an institutional-focused broker with experience on both the advisory and principal sides. He has been involved in more than $50 billion in capital markets transactions and has closed approximately $4.5 billion in investment sales, joint venture, and development activity. He specializes in complex investment sale executions and delivering tailored advisory solutions for multifamily owners and investors.

Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Washington served as an executive vice president with CBRE’s capital markets team in the Pacific Northwest, where he focused on institutional multifamily investment sales. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Eastdil Secured, JLL, and TH Real Estate, advising clients on complex asset transactions and portfolio strategies.

“Seattle and the broader Pacific Northwest continue to attract long-term institutional capital, and I’m excited to establish and anchor Walker & Dunlop’s presence in a market,” said Washington. “The firm’s reputable national platform, integrated capital markets capabilities, and strong West Coast relationships create a powerful opportunity to deliver differentiated results for clients.”

Washington will build and grow a dedicated Pacific Northwest team while partnering closely with the firm’s capital markets debt professionals and West Coast investment sales leaders to provide coordinated, full-service advisory platform to clients. He will partner with Nate Oleson in Northern California and Hunter Combs in Southern California to provide comprehensive coverage of institutional West Coast buyers and sellers, further strengthening Walker & Dunlop’s coast-to-coast capital markets platform.

Washington earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Morehouse College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is active in the Urban Land Institute and NAIOP and serves on nonprofit boards focused on community development and arts initiatives in the Pacific Northwest.

Walker & Dunlop is a leader in multifamily property sales, having completed nearly $71 billion in property sales volume since 2021. The firm is also one of the top providers of capital to the U.S. multifamily market. In 2025, Walker & Dunlop originated over $41 billion in debt financing volume, including over $35 billion for multifamily properties. To learn more about our capabilities and financing options, visit our website.

About Walker & Dunlop

Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is one of the largest commercial real estate finance and advisory services firms in the United States and internationally. Our ideas and capital create communities where people live, work, shop, and play. Our innovative people, breadth of our brand, and our technological capabilities make us one of the most insightful and client-focused firms in the commercial real estate industry.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge clashed Tuesday with Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor during an unusual contempt hearing that highlighted growing confrontations between increasingly frustrated judges and Department of Justice officials.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan called Tuesday’s hearing to decide whether U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Daniel N. Rosen and others should be held in contempt for not heeding orders to return the personal property of 28 of immigrants who had been detained and then ordered freed. The property ranges from cash to identity documents to clothing.

Bryan, who had said in calling for the hearing that there had been “numerous unlawful violations of court orders,” started Tuesday by saying it would be a “historic low point” for the U.S. attorney’s office if he held anyone in contempt.

“Your honor has made a remark smearing myself,” Rosen shot back. The judge later called for a break in the hearing to allow for a reset, acknowledging the two had “been a little testy and frosty with each other.”

Things were calmer in the afternoon, with Rosen saying on the witness stand that he takes an “acute interest” in compliance with the judge’s orders, and that compensation would be paid in the two cases where immigrants' property was lost.

The cases “fall into the realm of human error," he said.

Rosen's office is facing a serious staff shortage. A series of prosecutors have left the office over the past year, including a recent group who left amid growing frustration with the administration's immigration enforcement and the Justice Department’s response to two fatal shootings by federal officers in Minneapolis.

There has been a surge in recent weeks of judges issuing critical and sometimes scathing statements and rulings over the fallout from the administration’s attempts at mass immigrant deportations, with the Department of Justice appearing unable to always keep up with the flood of cases from the crackdown.

There was the district judge in Minnesota who took the rare step of finding an administration lawyer in contempt for failing to return identification documents to an immigrant, the judge in New York who decried ICE's “abhorrent and illegal practices," and the judge in West Virginia who chastised U.S. and state officials for jailing noncitizens indefinitely.

The government “incredulously asserts that the federal district courts do not have jurisdiction, that petitioners cannot raise due process violations, and that the Government has authority to mandatorily and indefinitely detain noncitizens in the local jail,” U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin said in his order.

“The government is wrong,” he continued. “Judges in this district have said that over and over and over again.”

The chief federal judge for Minnesota has repeatedly grabbed national attention with his warnings.

“ICE is not a law unto itself,” Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz wrote in late January about the government's repeated failures to comply with court orders during Operation Metro Surge, the immigration crackdown that shook Minneapolis and the surrounding region.

Last week, Schiltz, who was appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush and is seen as a conservative, said Rosen and ICE officials must comply with court orders or risk criminal contempt charges.

“The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders,” Schiltz wrote.

The administration has blamed judges for the crisis, accusing them of failing to follow the law and rushing cases.

Sullivan contributed from Minneapolis.

The U.S. attorney for Minnesota, Daniel Rosen, speaks with reporters during a news conference at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)