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Our team

Better people make better lending

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. 

Better by design, better by nature, better for you in every corner of the country.

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Team Foote

Shared experience. Likeminded executors. Diversified expertise.

What contributes to the successful collaboration between Jim Foote and Brian Hammond? They engage early to really learn what clients are trying to achieve with their projects and then analyze those goals through the lens of regional market knowledge. Jim and Brian have natural banter and go back and forth on ideas and solutions until they uncover the right answer with the right timing.  

Jim and Brian simplify the complex because they’ve seen it all in their combined more than 50 years in the industry. As a result, they are able to apply different structures to extract the maximum amount of value. Their diversified expertise, which includes construction financing and deep CMCH knowledge, has been shaped by an inclination toward ingenuity and the tenacity to take on any challenge. They commit to seeing projects through to completion and take pride in seeing how their collaborations with clients are changing skylines and cityscapes across Ontario.

Jim
Foote

Learn more: Jim Foote

Brian
Hammond

Learn more: Brian Hammond