Avatar Financial Group is based here in Seattle, and has offices in cities including Los Angeles. There, Alex Cruz and George Warf will join the firm, as it recently announced. Both the two industry veterans will continue their work in loan origination. Avatar president T.R. Hazelrigg IV said in a statement, “Both have leveraged their business development skills to become top producers in the commercial mortgage lending industry. With reputations for being deal closers, I'm looking forward to seeing Alex and George put their skills and resources to work.” Avatar specializes in private bridge loans, generally in the $1 million to $35 million range. Over the past two decades, it has provided or sourced over $1 billion in bridge loan funding.

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