Hank Hall

Doug specializes in mortgage banking/brokerage with an emphasis on debt and equity placement.  His primary funding sources are insurance companies, credit unions, commercial banks and securitized “conduit” lenders.  Multi-family assignments are most often arranged by Mr. Alexander through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA/HUD.

Doug has an active Georgia real estate license.

Doug joined Colliers in Atlanta in 1994 as a member of its Debt & Equity Group and is a former member of the firm’s Board of Directors. 

From 1985 to 1994, Doug was a Vice President with First Fidelity Mortgage Corporation of Atlanta.  While with this commercial real estate financial services company, Doug played an instrumental role in establishing new correspondent lender relationships for the firm.  His experience included a range of income-producing properties, with a particular emphasis on retail and single-tenant, credit-oriented transactions.

Doug began his real estate career in 1979 with Gordon H. Kolb Developments, Inc. of New Orleans.  In his capacity as Vice President of this neighborhood shopping center development, leasing and management firm, he actively participated in all aspects of the development process.

Forrest specializes in mortgage banking/brokerage with an emphasis on debt & equity placement. His primary funding sources are insurance companies, commercial banks, and credit unions with CMBS lenders serving as secondary sources. Multi-family assignments are  often arranged with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA/HUD.

Forrest has also been active in the investment sales arena via his active Georgia real estate license.

Forrest enthusiastically joined Colliers International in Atlanta in 1999 as a Vice President in the Capital Markets Group where he is responsible for mortgage origination and equity placement for owner/developer/buyer clients.

Forrest began his career in Atlanta in 1988 after graduating from Vanderbilt University, accepting an offer at Bank South, where he worked in several positions over a three-year period. Forrest focused his career on commercial real estate beginning in 1991 when he returned to Vanderbilt, enrolling in the Owen Graduate School of Management concentrating in finance. While at Owen, he gained commercial mortgage banking experience at a  Nashville-based commercial real estate firm.

Upon completing the Owen MBA program, Forrest returned to Atlanta to work for six years in commercial mortgage loan production with an Atlanta based mortgage banking firm. During his employment there, Mr. Speed’s production volume exceeded $150 million spanning a variety of property types including office, industrial, apartment, retail, and hotel.

Hagan joined Colliers in January 2017 and is a Senior Vice President/Principal in our Atlanta office. He leads our Atlanta Debt & Equity team and is responsible for procuring debt and equity for his clients’ commercial real estate investments.

After graduating from Washington & Lee in 2006, Hagan moved to Washington, DC and began his career with Cambridge Associates where he monitored the investment performance of assets in excess of $5 billion for approximately 25 public endowments. In 2007, he joined Walker & Dunlop’s Capital Markets Group in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2012, after securing his Masters in Real Estate at Johns Hopkins University, Hagan moved from Washington, DC to Atlanta to lead Walker & Dunlop’s Capital Markets Group’s efforts in that region. In his approximately 15 years at Walker & Dunlop and Colliers, Hagan has been involved in the origination and funding of more than 150 commercial real estate transactions exceeding more than $1.5 billion in volume.

Hagan specializes in commercial mortgage loan origination with an emphasis on debt and equity placement. His primary funding sources are insurance companies, commercial banks, debt funds, credit unions, private equity and CMBS lenders. Multifamily assignments are often arranged with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA/HUD.

Representative transactions include properties within all phases of the real estate cycle from ground-up development and redevelopment projects as well as lease-up and fully stabilized properties across all major property types.

Pope joined Colliers International in 2018 as a financial analyst with the Capital Markets Group – Debt & Equity Finance team. As an analyst, Pope specializes in the underwriting of commercial real estate debt across all asset classes. While at Colliers, Pope has assisted in the production of more than $750 million of commercial debt transactions. Prior to joining Colliers, Pope was an intern at Eastdil Secured in Atlanta. Pope graduated from Washington and Lee University where he majored in American History and Business Administration.

Upon graduating from the University of Georgia, Somer started her career in real estate as a leasing consultant for Mid-America Apartments.  She assisted with several properties in the Atlanta area  by developing strong relationships in order to maintain current  residents as well as  to lease apartments to prospective residents. However, Somer decided to move her career to the corporate world and join the Capital Markets team at Colliers International. 

Beginning in the late 1990's in the mortgage banking field, his experience includes participating and directing over $2.5BB worth of real estate transactions whereby approximately 30+ deals included the procurement of over $200mm of equity, preferred equity and mezzanine capital.  During the early 2010's arranging equity capital represented 90%+ of the assignments that were facilitated.  In some situations, as many as 7 layers of capital were coordinated and driven to a successful closing.  The product types are primarily for sale but mostly for rent residential, office, retail and hotel with each representing about 70%, 15%, 10% and 5% of the transactions completed, respectively.