Chad Thomas Hagwood is Senior Managing Director and MHC Production Head for Lument. He is an industry-leading expert in the financing of multifamily and manufactured housing communities. Mr. Hagwood oversees 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 Mr. Hagwood’s clients receive superior terms and “white-glove” service throughout the entire loan process. Hagwood was Top Producer for the company in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2023. Mr. Hagwood has long been a leading originator and pioneer in manufactured housing community lending.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Hagwood has closed well in excess of $15 billion in commercial real estate transactions and is consistently ranked as one of the industry’s leading mortgage bankers. Prior to joining Lument’s predecessor Hunt Real Estate Capital, Mr. Hagwood 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, Mr. Hagwood served as Executive Vice President of Originations. Mr. Hagwood joined Beech Street as a partner 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. Mr. Hagwood was the company’s Top Direct Multifamily Originator in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2016.
Mr. Hagwood was named one of Birmingham’s Executives of Influence in 2019, “Who’s Who” in commercial real estate in 2015–2025, 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 and named one of Birmingham’s “Top 40 Under 40” in 2002.
In 2017, Mr. Hagwood was awarded the Honorary Lifetime Membership Award by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (“UAB”) National Alumni Society, which is the Society’s highest award bestowed on an individual whose contributions to UAB benefit the entire university community. Mr. Hagwood currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board for UAB’s Collat School of Business. He established the Hagwood Endowed Scholarship in Real Estate in 2007 and named the Chad Thomas Hagwood Finance Lab at UAB’s Collat School of Business building in 2016. Mr. Hagwood was one of five recipients of the Collat Distinguished Alumni Award commemorating the school’s 50th anniversary in 2022.
Additionally, Mr. Hagwood serves as an Officer and Board Member of Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Alabama Chapter of CCIM Institute and is a Trustee Emeritus for the University of Alabama’s Real Estate Center (“ACRE”).
Mr. Hagwood has authored a number of articles in a variety of national publications and is a recurring speaker and panelist at industry conferences and events throughout the country.
Mr. Hagwood earned his Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His areas of concentration were Commercial Real Estate and Investment/Institutional Finance. While at UAB, Mr. Hagwood received presidential honors and served as President of both Rho Epsilon, the National Real Estate Fraternity, and the Financial Management Association.
