Welcome to Walker & Dunlop’s Fourth Quarter and full year 2013 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. Hosting the call today from Walker & Dunlop is Willy Walker, Chief Executive Officer. He’s joined by Steve Theobald, Chief Financial Officer; and Claire Harvey, Vice President of Investor Relations. Today’s call is being recorded and will be available for replay beginning at 10:00 AM Eastern. The dial-in number for the replay is 800-283-4216. At this time, all participants have been placed in a listen-only mode and the floor will be open for your questions following the presentation. (Operator Instructions). It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to Claire Harvey. Please go ahead.

Thanks, [Zack]. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining the Walker & Dunlop fourth quarter and full year 2013 earnings call. I have with me this morning our Chairman and CEO, Willy Walker; and our CFO, Steve Theobald. This call is being webcast live on our website and a recording will be available later this morning. Both our earnings press release and website provide details on accessing the archived call. This morning, we posted our earnings release and presentation to the Investor Relations section of our website, www.walkerdunlop.com. These slides serve as a reference point for some of what Willy and Steve will touch on this morning. So participants who are interested in following along should pull those up and have them available. Please also note that we may reference certain non-GAAP financial metrics such as adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per diluted share, adjusted operating margin, adjusted income from operations, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted total expenses during the course of this call. Please refer to the earnings release and the presentation posted on our website for reconciliation of the GAAP and non-GAAP financial metrics and related explanation. Investors are urged to carefully read the forward-looking statements language in our earnings release. Statements made on this call, which are not historical facts, may be deemed forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements, including statements regarding future financial operating results, involve risks, uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of Walker & Dunlop and which may cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated results. Walker & Dunlop is under no obligation to update or alter our forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. We expressly disclaim any obligation to do so. More detailed information about risk factors can be found in our reports on file with SEC. With that, I will now turn the call over to Willy.

Thank you Claire, and thank you everyone for joining us on this snowy morning in Washington, DC. 2013 will go down as a transformative year for Walker and Dunlop and I’m extremely proud of all we’ve accomplished. Although our loan origination volumes did not hit the guidance we established at the beginning of the year, we were able to work through the surprise GSC loan origination caps and rising interest rates to increase origination volumes 18% year on year while growing revenues 24%. 18% growth in origination volumes outpaced the industry by three percentage points and was thanks to the investment in origination talent we made in 2012. Two years ago we outlined a strategic plan that contained four major goals. First, we told investors that we would continue to do as much business with the agencies as we possibly could, although FHFA’s arbitrary caps on Fannie and Freddie, along with hard running out of commitment authority twice had significant impacts on our business in 2013. Our origination volumes at 2.8 billion, 1.7 billion and 1.1 billion respectively allowed us to finish the year as Fannie Mae’s largest DUS lender for the second straight year, moved up from being the fourth largest Freddie Mac program plus seller to number three, and to move from the sixth largest [indiscernible] originator to number five. With a new permanent director at FHFA and an approved 2014 federal budget we begin 2014 with the assumption that the exogenous regulatory and governmental shocks that these three lines of business suffered in 2013 will not be repeated. Our jump up the league tables in 2012 was due to the combination of Walker and Dunlop and TW Capital. But the numbers we put up in 2013 came from a fully integrated highly cohesive Walker and Dunlop. These…

Thank you, Willy, and good morning, everyone. I am going to spend the majority of my time this morning on our full year results while providing highlights to some important transactions and trends in the fourth quarter. Net income for 2013 was $41.5 million or $1.21 per diluted share, compared to $33.8 million or $1.31 per diluted share in 2012. Adjusted net income which excludes certain non-operating items was $44 or $1.28 per diluted share compared to $48.4 million or $1.87 per diluted share in 2012. Adjusted EBITDA for 2013 was $56.8 million, a significant increase from $29.4 million in 2012. Operating margin for 2013 was 21% and adjusted operating margin was 22% compared to 22% and 31% respectively in 2012. As Willy mentioned, we made tremendous progress during 2013 in the execution of our diversification strategy with brokered and interim loans accounting for 33% of our $8.4 billion of organization volume compared to only 17% in the prior year. As we have discussed in our previous conference calls, many of our financial metrics were affected by the shift in mix during 2013 and I will spend additional time on this morning’s call explaining those affects. We expect to see our non-agency originations continue to be a significant and growing portion of our overall volumes as we strategically grow these areas of our business. So it is important for our investors to understand the impacts of this growth on our financial results going forward. Let’s start with revenue. Total revenue for the year was $319 million, a 24% increase over 2012 driven by increased mortgage banking gains and servicing fees, mortgage banking gains increased by 9% in 2013 on 18% volume growth. Here we see the impact of the shift in mix, lower mortgage banking margins. Looking at slide eight,…

Thanks, Steve. I will reiterate Steve’s comment about the dramatic growth and adjusted EBITDA. We’ve grown our cash flow and adjusted EBITDA dramatically as we’ve increased the size of our servicing portfolio. The average life of our servicing portfolio is approximately 10 years and over 90% of the loans in the servicing portfolio are prepayment protected making our servicing asset both reliable and very valuable. At the end of 2013, the servicing portfolio was valued by a third party firm at [$415] million comprising 80% of Walker & Dunlop's current market capitalization. As I mentioned previously, it is our assumption that the exogenous regulatory and governmental shocks to GSEs and HUD experienced in 2013 don’t repeat themselves in 2014. We have no ability to predict what HFHA under Director, Mel Watt, will do with its 2014’s scorecard for Fannie and Freddie. From conversations with regulators, government officials and industry association executives however, it is our assumption that Fannie and Freddie’s multifamily lending caps are unchanged from 2013 at 30 billion and 26 billion respectively. With $56 billion to lend between the two of them Fannie and Freddie will still be the dominant sources of capital for the multifamily industry in 2014. Walker and Dunlop has every intention of being the largest Fannie Mae DUS lender again and we will work tirelessly to try and move up to number two with Freddie Mac. It should be noted that we dropped the percentage of originations with Fannie and Freddie from 70% in 2012 to 52% in 2013. It is our strategy to do as much with the agencies as we possibly can, that continue growing our other lines of business to broaden our lending platform. What we do see developing more generally is a very robust, highly competitive real estate finance industry.…

[Operator Instructions] We’ll take our first question from Steve DeLaney with JMP Securities. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Good morning everyone. Pretty impressive that you all made it in with snow down there. I guess, really I’d like to pick up on your comments about the CMBS conduit joint venture. You may have noticed last week there was a new IPO in the market for a company called Ladder Capital whose primary business is CMBS conduit originations and sales. I guess what I wanted to ask you about, I know it’s early on but it appears in that business and it will depend on I guess where spreads on AAAs and levels of competitions but it would seem the gain on sale margins 5% to 7% of the principle balance of the loans and ROE opportunities in excess of 30%. As you look at that business, do you see that new addition to potentially being the highest ROE business that Walker & Dunlop maybe entering?

Steve, we clearly saw Ladder go public and I congratulate them for getting out and getting out of what I think is a very healthy valuation. And as you rightly described, gain on sale margins have been quite high in the CMBS lending space over the past couple of years. It’s not our expectation that they remain that high going forward. But I believe that they were at the Mortgage Bankers Association conference last week in Orlando, the count was I believe, 38 conduits up and going today and so it is a very competitive and very robust environment and so I think the pricing actually the people are looking at right now is 4% on the high side 3% as your average and many people modelling now closer to 2%. But it’s still a very healthy business and with the current interest rate environment which is for lack of a better term somewhat benign and that rates aren’t spiking up and down. There is obviously rate movement on a daily basis but not to the degree that make securitization difficult. If we stay in a relatively moderate volatility interest rate environment, doesn’t really matter whether they continue to go up slowly or come down slowly you’ll be able to see I think a very robust securitization market. If we get big fluctuations in interest rates as we saw in sort of May and June of last year, clearly the CMBS market has a very difficult time pricing and selling in that of an environment and that would slow down the originations we see at the conduit.

And Steve touched on this but I think it’s important that from a capital efficiency standpoint, I understand you won’t be, while you’ll be servicing loans, you won’t be booking in MSR and the gain on sale that you do book will be a cash gain.

That’s correct Steve.

Yes. Okay. Thanks. And one final thing, Willy, I noticed there was an 8-K filed yesterday indicating the Mr. Taylor who represented Credit Swiss would not stand for re-election. They have recently, we’ve seen some 144-A filings and we thought these numbers are precise, this is what we had, that they owned about 2.9 million or 8.4% as of September 30, but it appears that they may have sold as much as one third of that position based on the 13 [days] we’ve seen. Do you have any view or insight as to what their plans are, what the balance of their position and would it be conceivable that Walker & Dunlop may be able to negotiate some kind of a block trade using the senior facility. Thank you.

Sure, Steve. First of all Mr. Taylor stepping off the Board is CS no longer has a right to a seat on the Walker & Dunlop Board. Mr. Taylor has been appointed to a new position inside of Credit Swiss and it makes sense for him to step off the Board at this time. So, nothing other than normal course of business [indiscernible] into that and then as it relates to CS and their position, they have as you accurately stated, [10B 501] filed since I believe either late 2013 or just at the beginning of 2014. I think the numbers that I have is that they sold about 0.5 million shares over the last month plus and whether they keep that [10B 501] in, pull it, look for a block trade I honestly, I don’t know. With their current shareholding level, CS is going from being a very significant shareholder in Walker & Dunlop to not that material a shareholder in Walker & Dunlop. We enjoyed having them as a partner. We made them a lot of money on the acquisition of column and the stock that they took in Walker & Dunlop, and as you probably know, we do quite a bit of business on the trading side of sales of securities with Credit Suisse and it would be great to see the partnership between our two companies continue to expand, but I don’t think anything ought to be read into Mr. Taylor stepping off the Board either from a growth of the partnership and I can’t tell you anything as it relates to their plans for their shares.

We will go next to Jason Stewart with Compass Point. Please go ahead.

Well I appreciate your comments on your expectations for FHFA lending caps in 2013. But I’m also curious to know what’s your thoughts are on how you think the market and particularly Fannie have been operating year-to-date, whether they’re operating on that assumption or they’re a little bit more conservative?

Jason both Fannie and Freddie are operating under that assumption. So it is business as usual and I believe both of them from plenty of discussions with them are operating under the assumption the Fannie's got 30 and Freddie's got 26, but clearly until Director, Watt, comes out with his scorecard nobody will know for sure what it looks like. But that’s the way that they’re operating and if you will for all practical purposes, its business as usual.

And so when we look at Fannie’s multifamily in January at 1.4 billion, I mean, it’s clearly low, how much of that you think is pulled forward into last year and reselling in the pipeline et cetera just due to seasonality? And then secondly, do you think Watt actually does come out with a scorecard this year or is it going to be business as usual operated under 2013? And my question really centers around, there was so much uncertainty created by this scorecard in March or April last year, almost the uncertainty rather than the level, I think created more of a problem in the market.

Yes, so, Jason, the -- your first point as it relates to Fannie’s January volumes. As you know, both Fannie and Freddie worked very hard to hit their lending caps in 2013, and Freddie, if you will, landed the airplane right on the aircraft carrier, right at their cap of 26 billion, and Fannie came in at 28.8 billion, so 1.2 billion below the $30 billion cap. But they pushed very hard to get as much done in 2013 as they could before the end of the year. And as such there was very little carryover business between 2013 and 2014. I believe last January Fannie did over 4 billion in the month of January and so what you’re seeing is a lot of carryover last year which quite honestly caused them even a heightened problem when FHFA came out with their cap last year because Fannie had had such a robust January and February that they were well ahead of what that cap would have done which caused them to put on the breaks even further. So I think what you’re seeing set up in 2014 is really business as usual in the sense of getting to that 30 billion and not having a lot of fall over from 2013 into 2014 to have them have to put on the breaks at any time. More specifically on the scorecard, clearly Director, Watt can do whatever he sees fit. I would say that most people expect him to come out with a scorecard because the last scorecard did cause the questions that you accurately mentioned. And the one thing that we have been talking to both the regulator as well as the agencies about is making sure that the scorecard is not a one-year’s scorecard like last years but a multiyear scorecard. So that we and other industry players as well as our investors have some visibility as it relates to where FHFA would like to see Fannie and Freddie’s multifamily businesses go over several years as the legislative debate on Capitol Hill moves forward.

Okay, thank you so much. That's great color. Thank you for that. One final one and I’ll jump out. When I heard Steve and if I missed this, let me know, but I don’t want to read too much into this. I’ve heard Steve mentioned uses of proceeds for the debt. Now number one, if lending; number two, share buybacks, and I didn’t hear anything about an acquisition and I know that was something that was, was to previously as a potentially use of those proceeds. So am I reading too much into it to say that you think you can do this organically and are looking at acquisitions? Or is that still on the table?

Very much still on the table, sorry that's -- Jason you’re correct, in the debt offering it’s in there and we were quite honestly trying to be as consistent as possible and we left it out. So, no, there is no -- we are as you can imagine out looking at a number of different opportunities, nothing to talk about it at this point. But the continued diversification of our platform and the growth in our asset management business is really the focus.

We’ll go next to Brandon Dobell with William Blair. Please go ahead.

Thanks. Good morning. Couple of quick ones following on the agency question, I know that it sounds like the expectation is for no change in total volume. How do you think about the change perhaps in mix i.e. more focus on affordable, less focus kind of class A brass and glass multifamily. Does that -- any comments there about what that may or may not do for you guys?

So, your question is a very good one as you well know FHFA under De Marco was very focused on if you will, Fannie & Freddie lending in the high end of the market and trying to get them to move if you will further down towards moderate and affordable lending. That theme in the general discussion has died down somewhat but it is still very much on the table and something that people are talking about. The most recent discussion is keep their caps where they are and then allow them to do as much affordable as they can possibly do. So, if Fannie & Freddie want to grow beyond their caps of 30 and 26, do it in the affordable space. And if you did that you’d allow them to continue to do all they want in the high end but you’d also get what many people have talked about which is increased capital going to affordable housing. That may be accepted FHFA I spoke to them about it last week, on specifically that point. And they may come out with something that talks about trying to get more of their capital going to a more affordable housing. I’ve also pointed out to both FHFA and HUD that in the 2014 federal budget HUD has $30 billion of capital for multifamily and healthcare lending. That 30 billion is almost 3X what they had just three years ago. And so one of my comments to people across the Board is if you really want affordable housing to get additional capital, there is plenty of it in the HUD budget just make HUD that much more efficient to be able to meet the market opportunity. To be honest with you, not many people have really liked that statement because I think it would force HUD to get a little bit more competitive and it would also allow Fannie & Freddie to go do whatever they wanted but the bottom line is affordability is still very much a theme, I would not be surprised if Director Watt is focused on affordability but at the same time the general discussions are the FHFA scorecard last year was the 10% arbitrary cut, was a 100% arbiter it had no long-term goal behind it and it was not the right thing to do. So what we are hearing now is you need to back off of that but where they go on a longer term strategy, quite honestly, Brandon we will see when the scorecard comes out.

Okay. All right, fair enough. You mentioned during the call about the slice of loan sold in the servicing portfolio where you got the termination fee. How do you gauge the I guess the risk of more of those types of transactions happening where the servicing balance declines either marginally or materially as one of the agencies sells a portfolio to somebody else, would you expect that pickup in that activity, no change, just trying to gauge the risk to that servicing portfolio from those types of secondary market transactions.

Brandon, this is Steve, I’ll take that one. From my perspective this is really an isolated unique situation having to do with a cash balance portfolio that Fannie held that they wanted to get off their balance sheet there is really not much -- if anything like that left in our servicing portfolio, so I don’t really see this as a trend per se as much as just a one-off transaction.

Okay. Any color on what the mix of property types from an origination volume point of view. It looked like in ’13 versus ’12 i.e. multifamily healthcare office and is there any color on where you think looking out over the three, five year timeframe what the mix of originations may look like from a property perspective?

We haven’t given guidance on the long term trend if you will -- the breakout in the mix. Steve just turned to slide 7, in the -- that gives you a sense, Brandon of the various asset classes that we lent on in 2012 and 2013. I would point out that one of the somewhat surprising data points is that 48% of our capital markets are breakage activity in 2013 was on multifamily and I think that’s important in the sense that how do we not made the investments to grow that business line, the pull back by the agencies in 2013 would have been even greater on Walker & Dunlop's overall activity because I think that that shows very clearly that the deal flow came to Walker and Dunlop but the agencies weren’t competitive for it in ’13 because of the regulatory landscape and we were fortunate enough to have people who took that deal flow and took it somewhere else and we’re able to source it with the life insurance company or CMBS lender. And so I look back on ’13 and say, first of all that does show how uncompetitive the agencies became in ’13, I think we’ll see that change in ’14 and then second of all thank goodness we’d expanded our capital markets group to be able to take that deal flow and place it within another source of capital. The other side to it is that as the economy continues to heal I think that we will continue to see improvements in the office sector, in the retail sector as well as in the hospitality sector and so lending opportunities in those sectors I think will continue to be robust, particularly as we come into the refinancing wave of 2015, ’16, and ’17, when so much of those asset classes were financed by CMBS back in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Got it, and then final one, Steve you talked about low to mid 20s operating margins I believe as opposed to EBITDA margins. Operating margins for now, if you guys are successful in driving those revenue targets you talked about, with servicing an asset management, maybe it would seem like that the pressure on margins would be up as opposed to down, although I guess it depends on how big the agencies remain. Maybe just a little bit of color on how longer term revenue mix target or goal may impact what looks like a low to mid 20s margins now. Thanks

That’s right, and I agree Brandon, with your premise. I think all things being equal as we increase our revenues from our proprietary capital initiatives that should put upward pressure on operating margin.

Okay.

Because essentially through equity pickups on the various ventures that we are invested in, those come through as your revenue with no expenses.

Got it.

So the calculus is such that if you held everything else flat and that was the dynamic it would increase operating margins, but obviously the rest of the business isn’t static so, it all -- it depends on what flows through the mix master at the end of the day.

And we’ll take our last question from Charles Nabhan with Wells Fargo, please ahead.

Good morning and thank you for taking my call, in the past you’ve given an origination target for the CMBS if 1 billion for the first year. Assuming that's -- my first question is, does that still stand and secondly how should we think about the ramp up of that business over time?

So the expectation is still that we will do $1 billion in the conduit in 2014, as I said previously to Steve Delaney’s question, Charles a lot of it obviously depends on the interest rate environment and volatility in interest rates. As it relates to the ramp, I would just go back to the Mortgage Bankers’ Association projection that CMBS pooled originations grow by 25% year on year. One of the -- behind all of that, I also pointed out that in 2013, there’s going to be 300 -- their projection is 300 billion of total commercial real estate financing in 2014, and of that only 92 billion is coming off of refinancings, where loans are maturing in 2015 and needing to be refinanced. So you’ve got 208 billion that is if you will new originations. What ends up happening in 2015, ’16 and ’17 is the mix of refinancings versus new financings changes dramatically and the refinancing volumes grow, well, between ’14 and ’15 grow I think over 70% year on year, and so there is a big-big opportunity because most of that refinancing volume is coming out of CMBS pools. And so one of the issues there is that if we are successful at getting the conduit launched which we are in the process of doing right now, and we get out there and we start to gain some real traction, we think that there is fantastic growth opportunity in ’15, ’16 and ’17 for the conduit given this big wave of refinancings that will be coming about. If you back up to 2007, in 2007 $230 billion of commercial real estate was financed by CMBS. Now all of that doesn’t, isn’t sitting out there to be refinanced in 2017 but a lot of it was 10 year paper that does need to be redone in 2017. So there’s a great opportunity for the conduit to grow quite dramatically but we have not given any guidance on what we think that growth will be, but the market drivers look very-very promising. Charles Nabhan – Wells Fargo: Okay and understanding that it’s going to fluctuate from quarter to quarter how should we think about the mix within the originations of what Walker & Dunlop is going to originate in house, versus what it will source through its partner?

I got to ask my general counsel. I’ll have to give what our assumption is on that.

In house, versus outside.

Yes, what's coming --

From a timing perspective I think Charles we really don’t know.

But I -- can I give my assumption?

We can give an assumption…..

Yes, Charles, our assumption is that 60% would come from outside and 40% will come internally. But that is nothing other than a guess as it relates to how effective we’re going to be at selling the conduit and how much activity we’re going to get from brokers and third parties. Right, we’re breaking it down. The 60% will come from external sources and 40% will come in internally.

And one final follow-up, we’ve seen some other nonbank financials attain FHLB membership as a source of cheap long-term funding. Is that, to the extent that you can comment, is that an avenue that you have looked into or could potentially explore in the future?

I know it has been done. I also know that there is plenty of talk about whether it should be allowed and we are currently not looking at that.

And there are no further questions. I would like to turn the conference back over to our speakers for any closing remarks.

Great. I would say thank you everyone for joining us this morning from wherever you’re, if you are on the east coast and dealing with the storm, stay warm and stay safe. And we look forward to talking to all of you again next quarter. Thank you very much.

Thank you. This does conclude today’s conference call. Please disconnect your lines at this time and have a wonderful day.