Henry Fenmore, 28
Senior associate at CBRE
Henry Fenmore has been on quite the roller coaster of market activity since joining the commercial real estate finance profession in 2019 as an analyst on Deutsche Bank’s commercial mortgage-backed securities group.
From the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, rising interest rates and now unknowns about global tariffs, Fenmore has received his share of education about how to respond to various market conditions.
“It has given me the ability to identify risks and deals that maybe some other people wouldn’t see,” Fenmore said. “I have learned how deals progress through their lifetime and some things to watch out for as the market may turn or dislocate.”
After three years at Deutsche Bank, Fenmore joined CBRE in June 2022 and has utilized his background in CMBS deals to help lift the brokerage’s financing activity. In the last year and a half alone, Fenore has executed large transactions totaling $14 billion, including $6 billion of CMBS volume working in close collaboration with Tom Traynor and Tom Rugg, the brokerage’s vice chairs and co-heads of U.S. large loans.
Fenmore said the most prominent deal he worked on was a $500 million balance sheet loan for SL Green to refinance 919 Third Avenue from a six-bank syndicate led by Credit Agricole and Aareal Bank in April 2023, a time when few office deals were getting financed.
Fenmore credits Traynor and Rugg as being influential mentors, and he also prides himself on teaching junior team members the skills necessary to execute large deals. He also gives back to his alma mater, Southern Methodist University, through his involvement with an executive mentoring program via service on real estate associate board at SMU’s Cox School of Business.
Outside of facilitating deals, Fenmore has a passion for fly fishing (he spent Memorial Day weekend casting with his grandfather in Oregon), and he also enjoys sampling the many restaurants in his home neighborhood of Lower Manhattan when not cooking himself.
