John C. Kelly has joined CBRE/New England, a Boston-based joint venture partner with commercial brokerage CB Richard Ellis, as vice president, mortgage brokerage as part of the New England capital markets team.

Kelly is a multi-housing mortgage banking professional with more than 10 years of experience originating commercial real estate transactions. In his new role, he will specialize in multi-housing loan originations.

"We’re very pleased to welcome John to our team," said Andy Hoar, president of CBRE/NE. "John’s experience and knowledge in this field will add significant value to our Capital Markets platform."

Kelly previously worked at Arbor Commercial Mortgage LLC, where he was responsible for new business generation and multi-housing client relationships across Arbor’s product lines, including Fannie Mae, FHA and REIT transactions. Prior to joining Arbor in 2006, John was with Rockport Mortgage Corp.