Amit Kakar

Amit Kakar

Senior Director, Capital Markets

Career Summary

Amit is a Senior Director in the Washington, DC office of JLL Capital Markets. He joined JLL in 2019 as part of the HFF acquisition and has more than 12 years of experience in commercial real estate. He joined HFF in August 2018 from Freddie Mac and specializes in arranging debt and equity placement for multi-housing properties and portfolios across the east coast with a focus on the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast US. Amit has successfully assisted with the execution of debt and equity transactions representing more than $5.1 billion since August 2018.

Prior to HFF, Amit spent ten years at Freddie Mac, where he spent a majority of his tenure focused on multifamily loan production and capital markets pricing for market rate, seniors housing, student housing and targeted affordable transactions. Amit gradudated with a bachelors of business adminstration from James Madison University and a masters of science in Finance from American University. He serves as the community ambassador for the Movember Foundation, a charity focused on men’s health issues including mental health, prostate cancer and testicular cancer, in the Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia area.