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We lend billions of dollars to commercial real estate projects every year. But it’s not just capital that distinguishes us. It’s the empowered nature of our workforce. Our advisors are experienced experts whose sole focus is to deliver financing strategies that enable you to achieve greater success.

Our Better Lending culture – three decades in the making – is built on the skill that comes from pure mortgage lending. Because we start from a position of knowledge about you, your project, and your market, we can design solutions that are fit for your purpose. And because accountability is in our nature, we meet our commitments.

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Andrew Drexler

Andrew is a member of:
Team Drexler

Assistant Vice President, Commercial Financing

Andrew.Drexler@firstnational.ca

416.593.3037

Relationship builder. Trusted advisor. Sought-after expert.

Andrew has been a part of the First National Financial commercial team since 2002 During that time, he has cultivated deep relationships by providing value-added advisory services that help clients mitigate risk and maximize opportunities. In his more than two decades at First National, Andrew has originated more than $10 billion in commercial financing.

In 2022 alone, Andrew and his team funded more than $1.35 billion in commercial mortgages -- $980 million in Ontario and $240 million in Quebec.

For Andrew, reputation is everything. He builds his by consistently being a trusted advisor to his clients, adding the value of his honesty, depth of knowledge and expertise.

Andrew’s expertise spans both term and construction financing in the apartment, student housing, retail and industrial asset classes. That diversity shapes his perspectives and defines how he evaluates opportunities and identifies the value inherent in a deal.

Working at First National, Andrew feels encouraged to put client needs ahead of his own and communicate frankly and honestly. It’s how he’s built his reputation and contributed to First National’s reputation as well.

Industry involvement:

Andrew is a speaker at industry conferences including the Canadian Apartment Conference, RealCapital and the Land and Development Conference.