Professional Experience
Associated Office
Mr. Kennedy began his real estate career in Houston during 1985 with Coldwell Banker, the predecessor to CBRE. In 1988 he moved into the commercial mortgage banking business with the Robert C. Wilson Company, primarily focusing on life insurance company representation. Tracy Kennedy joined CBRE Debt & Structured Finance’s Austin office in 1997 to oversee its’ mortgage operations for Central Texas. In addition to originating commercial mortgages in Austin and San Antonio, Mr. Kennedy is active nationally including the Southeast, West, Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast as well as Dallas and Houston.
During Mr. Kennedy’s 35 year mortgage banking tenure, he has established a business practice predicated on serving in an advisory capacity and providing his clients with the optimal financing source and structure for any given assignment. In order to provide his clients with optimal execution, Mr. Kennedy has established deep relationships with diversified sources of capital ranging from Agency/GSE, FHA, Life Company, and CMBS for conventional term financing, bank and specialty bridge lenders for construction and bridge loan products, as well as arranging equity joint ventures, participating debt ventures, and mezzanine loan facilities.
In each of the last sixteen consecutive years, Mr. Kennedy was a member of the Colbert Coldwell Circle, which recognizes the top 100 commissioned professionals in CBRE nationally; furthermore, in each of the past eleven years, Mr. Kennedy has been recognized in the top 20 commissioned professionals company-wide. Mr. Kennedy has been one of the top 10 commissioned professionals across any CBRE business line in the Americas in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Mr. Kennedy is consistently one of the top ten loan producing professionals in the CBRE Debt & Structured Finance division and was the #1 originator in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Mr. Kennedy is recognized as one of the top multifamily loan and agency originators in the company.
Team Overview - Central Texas Debt & Structured Finance
Provides expertise across all property types and capital structures while offering clients the benefits of specialization within each property sector.
The Austin CBRE Debt & Structured Finance team includes a total of 11 professionals led by Tracy Kennedy. Since the start of 2004 through 2025 YTD, the Austin CBRE Debt & Structured Finance team has arranged over $35.5 Billion in financing, facilitating more than 1,400 transactions nationwide with over 100 different capital sources. Annually over the past 5 years, the team has averaged $2.4 Billion in financing and 68 transactions.
The Austin DSF team is the home office for Austin and San Antonio, however, over 60% of the team’s financing assignments have been located outside of Central Texas, in primary and secondary metros in the Southeast, West, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast as well as Houston and Dallas/Fort Worth. Further, the Austin team boasts a robust platform capable of sourcing financing across all primary commercial real estate product types including multifamily, office, retail and industrial properties.
Austin’s CBRE Debt & Structured Finance team is predicated on serving in an advisory capacity to provide its clients with the most favorable financing structure for any given assignment. In order to provide its clients with the optimal execution, the Austin DSF team maintains deep relationships with diversified debt capital sources including the GSEs, HUD/FHA, Life Companies, CMBS lenders and other alternative capital sources for conventional term financing as well as banks and specialty finance lenders for construction and interim/bridge executions. In addition to traditional debt financing, the team has significant experience in arranging equity joint ventures as well as preferred equity and mezzanine loan facilities.
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500 West 2nd Street
Suite 1700
Austin
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TX
78701
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Suite 825
San Antonio
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TX
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