Real Estate

Real Estate

Real Estate is a competitive, dynamic business covered by a dedicated team of 50 professionals across North America with broad experience across real estate sectors and a full product suite to support creative solutions for clients.


BMO has the capabilities and resources to help you navigate exciting strategic priorities, from mergers and acquisitions to optimizing capital structure. Working on transactions across North America, we deliver a leading, full-service real estate platform to a broad base of public and private clients.


Our North American focus is a competitive advantage with 30 professionals in Canada and 20 in the U.S. covering all real estate asset classes. BMO’s full-service capabilities include equity capital markets, debt capital markets, private placements, mergers and acquisitions advisory, and equity and fixed income research.


In Canada, we also have a leading property brokerage practice and a merchant banking group specializing in investing passive capital along side our clients in real estate development projects. Our real estate capabilities in the U.S. include a leading CMBS business active in SASB and conduit debt financings.



Sector Specialization

  • Data Centers

  • Industrial

  • Hotels/Lodging

  • Manufactured Housing

  • Medical Office

  • Net Lease

  • Office

  • Multi-Family Residential

  • Retail

  • Self-Storage

  • Senior Housing

  • Single Family Rental

  • Development Land


Real Estate Experts

Stephan Richford

Stephan Richford

Group Head Managing Director | Investment Banking, North American Real Estate

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