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Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it has arranged more than $223 million in bridge financing for five multifamily communities across the Southeast on behalf of Madison Capital Group.
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Walker & Dunlop Capital Markets Real Estate Finance arranged the loans with multiple debt fund lenders for multifamily assets located throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida. Led by Walker Layne, Austin Sneed and Tyler Evenson, the five financings closed over the past nine months, totaling 1,345 units, and highlight continued liquidity for well-positioned multifamily properties in high-growth Sun Belt markets.
“We are proud to support Madison Capital Group as they expand and strengthen their multifamily portfolio across some of the country’s fastest-growing markets,” said Layne, managing director of Capital Markets Real Estate Finance at Walker & Dunlop. “By structuring flexible floating-rate bridge financing, we were able to provide a tailored execution strategy that aligned with the business plans for each asset while maximizing optionality in an evolving capital markets environment.”
The portfolio includes:
Collectively, the financings were secured by market-rate multifamily communities located near major employment centers, transportation corridors, and retail destinations throughout the Southeast. The bridge loan structures provide Madison Capital Group with additional flexibility as the firm continues to execute its multifamily investment strategy across high-growth markets.
“We continue to see strong fundamentals across Sun Belt multifamily markets, particularly in communities benefiting from sustained population growth, employment expansion, and long-term housing demand,” said Collin Ross, senior vice president of portfolio management at Madison Capital Group. “Walker & Dunlop’s market knowledge and lender relationships helped us efficiently execute these financings while positioning the portfolio with flexibility to capitalize on continued growth opportunities throughout the Southeast.”
In 2025, Walker & Dunlop’s Capital Markets team sourced over $22 billion from non-Agency capital providers, including nearly $16 billion for multifamily properties. This vast experience has made them a top advisor on all asset classes for many of the industry’s top developers, owners, and operators. To learn more about Walker & Dunlop’s broad financing options, visit our website.
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PARIS (AP) — Acclaimed Iranian French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women's rights and author of “Persepolis,” has died at 56, the French presidency said Thursday.
“Her passing marks the loss of a leading figure of French culture and an artist devoted to freedom, whose work carried a universal message and earned her immense international acclaim,” the French presidency said in a statement.
President Emmanuel Macron and his wife “pay tribute to a remarkable artist who transformed an Iranian childhood into a universal fable,” the statement said.
News broadcaster BFM TV and other French media reported Satrapi “died of sadness” a little over a year after the death of her husband, Swedish film producer and actor Mattias Ripa, according to a statement from people close to the artist.
The French Academy of Fine Arts, of which she was a member, expressed its deep sadness in a social media statement, paying tribute to “a passionate advocate for cinema and film education” who earlier this year created a foundation to help international students come to Paris to study film.
Satrapi is best known for her monochrome autobiographical comic book and film “Persepolis,” a coming-of-age tale set against the Islamic Revolution in her native Iran.
“Persepolis” won the Film Critics Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and the César award for best adapted screenplay in 2008, in addition to being nominated for best animated feature at the 2008 Oscars.
The film, which details her life in Tehran as the willful daughter of intellectual Marxists, is a reminder that Iranians are just like everyone else, Satrapi told The Associated Press in a 2007 interview in Cannes.
“What we wanted to say is, if these people scare you, look closer: They have parents, they have lovers, they have hope, they have stories," she said.
Iranian authorities at the time protested the movie’s inclusion at Cannes, sending a letter to the French Embassy in Tehran.
Satrapi was born on Nov. 22, 1969, in Rasht, Iran, but her parents sent her to Vienna in 1983 to finish her studies because of the extremism in their country following the 1979 Revolution that brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power.
But Satrapi, who found Austria hostile and who desperately missed her parents, returned to Iran in 1989 to attend Tehran University, where she earned a degree in visual communications.
By the time she graduated, Satrapi decided she finally was ready to leave Iran and accept the opportunities her parents had been so desperate to give her a decade before. In 1994, she moved to France. She studied in Strasbourg and later moved to Paris.
Her graphic novels also include “Broderies” (“Embroideries”) and “Poulet aux prunes” (“Chicken with plums”), which also was adapted into a film. As a filmmaker, she has directed several works including “La Bande des Jotas” (“The Gang of Jotas”) and “Radioactive” (“Madame Curie”), a biography about the Polish physicist Marie Curie.
Satrapi in 2023 coordinated the book “Femme, vie, liberté” (“Woman, Life, Freedom”) together with a group of artists and academics to illustrate the revolts that occurred in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 at the hands of the so-called “morality police.” The work denounces the repression and lack of human rights that Iranian society, especially women, suffers at the hands of the Iranian regime, the foundation said.
Satrapi was elected member of the French Academy of Fine Arts in 2024. She also was offered France's highest award, the Legion of Honor, that same year but declined it, arguing France was not doing enough to support Iranian people fighting for democracy.
“Supporting the women’s revolution in Iran cannot be reduced to photos or speeches,” she wrote in a January 2025 letter to French authorities. “When people are fighting for democracy, we should support them.”
In 2024, Satrapi won the Princess of Asturias Foundation award in Spain for communication and humanities. The organization said she was “an essential voice in the defense of human rights and freedom.” The judges described her as “a symbol of civic engagement led by women."
Satrapi's husband died in April 2025 at 53. On her Instagram page, only one message was left in a series of posts: “Because I have lost the love of my life.”
FILE - Iranian born director Marjane Satrapi, center, French actress Catherine Deneuve, right, and Deneuve's daughter Chiara Mastroianni arrive for the screening of the film "Persepolis," at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Wednesday, May 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
FILE - Directors Marjane Satrapi, right, and Vincent Paronnaud pose following the awards ceremony at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Sunday, May 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
FILE - Director, illustrator and author Marjane Satrapi poses for photographers as she arrives to present the movie "La Bande des Jotas" at the 7th edition of the Rome International Film Festival in Rome, on Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
