Chad Hagwood

Chad Thomas Hagwood is Senior Managing Director and Southeast Regional Director for Lument. He is an industry-leading expert in the financing multifamily and manufactured housing communities, overseeing the Southeast Region and Lument’s Manufactured Housing Community production nationally.

His renowned focus, passion, and commitment to our industry, as well as the diligent leadership of his A-Team, ensures that all of his clients receive superior terms and “white-glove” service throughout the entire loan process. Hagwood was named the Top Producer for the company in 2018-2020, and 2023, and he has long been a leading originator and pioneer in manufactured housing community lending.

Over the course of his career, he has closed well in excess of $15 billion in commercial real estate transactions and is consistently ranked as one of the industry’s top mortgage bankers.

Prior to joining Lument’s predecessor Hunt Real Estate Capital, he served as Senior Vice President and Southeast Manager for Capital One Multifamily Finance, managing all of the company’s Southeast production staff. Prior to Capital One’s acquisition of Beech Street in late 2013, he served as Executive Vice President of Originations. Hagwood joined Beech Street at its inception to facilitate the growth of the direct origination network and was pivotal in Beech’s meteoric rise to one of the nation’s top leading agency lenders. He was the company’s Top Direct Multifamily Originator in 2011-2014 and 2016.    

Hagwood was named one of Birmingham’s Executives of Influence in 2019, “Who’s Who” in commercial real estate in 2017-2023, and one of the state’s “Heavy Hitters” in banking in 2010. He has been recognized by the Birmingham Business Journal as one of the 25 Most Innovative Leaders in the Banking and Finance Industry. In 2017, he was awarded the Honorary Lifetime Membership Award by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s National Alumni Society, which is the Society’s highest award bestowed on an individual whose contributions to UAB benefit the entire university community.

Hagwood currently serves as a board member of the School of Business at UAB, and an officer/board member of Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama. He established the Hagwood Endowed Scholarship in Real Estate at UAB in 2007.