Centerline Capital Group Adds Two Executives to its Roster

Nick Hoffer

New York—Centerline Capital Group, a provider of real estate mortgage services for affordable and conventional multifamily housing, announced today it has hired two new executives–Nick Hoffer has joined the firm as senior vice president and COO, and Mustafa N. Haque joins Centerline as a vice president and assistant general counsel.

Hoffer has more than a decade of real estate finance and investment banking experience, and significant expertise in implementing new business and corporate growth strategies in the affordable housing and multifamily finance industry.

Haque will work for both Centerline and the Hunt Companies. He will be responsible for working closely with the company leadership on legal matters as Centerline expands its platform and grows its businesses.

Mustafa Haque

Before joining Centerline, Hoffer was a vice president in the National Housing Group at Raymond James, a leading affordable housing investment bank and tax credit syndicator. Prior to that, he was part of the team that built Credit Suisse’s affordable housing and GSE finance platform. Previously, Hoffer held positions in the commercial real estate and structured corporate finance groups at Redwood Trust and Citigroup, respectively.

He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from James Madison University, and an MBA from the University of Florida.

Prior to coming to Centerline, Haque was in-house counsel for an asset based lending fund, which provided working capital to small businesses and its private equity affiliate. Haque began his legal career as corporate associate in the New York City office of Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP.

He received his Juris Doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis – School of Law and graduated from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School with a Bachelor of Business Administration.

Both Hoffer and Haque are based in the firm’s headquarter office in New York City.