Anthony Luzzi

Anthony Luzzi has over 35 years of experience with FHA mortgage insurance programs.  He provides leadership for, and support to, the firm’s business development, loan origination, marketing, and underwriting activities.  Anthony has completed approximately 200 FHA-insured transactions totaling over $2.175 billion for skilled nursing homes, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and multifamily and senior housing communities.  These transactions include new construction, substantial rehabilitation, expansion, acquisition, refinancing, debt restructuring, “bridge-to-HUD” refinancing, loan modifications and transfers of physical assets/loan assumptions.  He closed the first refinancing under the Section 242/223(f) program for a not-for-profit community hospital in California in 2011.    

Anthony was a longstanding member of the Executive Committee of the Committee on Healthcare Financing, a Washington, DC-based coalition of mortgage and investment bankers, financial advisors and law firms that specialize in FHA’s Section 232 and 242 programs for healthcare, senior housing and hospital facilities.  He also served as the Vice Chairperson of the FHA Committee for the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), a national trade association; and was a member of the MBA’s Multifamily Steering Committee.  Anthony has been a frequent speaker on FHA financing at healthcare and senior housing conferences nationally and has been quoted in industry publications like McKnight’s Long Term Care News. 

Anthony received his BA degree in History, magna cum laude, from Saint Peter’s College in New Jersey and a Master’s in Public Administration with a concentration in Financial Management from New York University.  Prior to joining Sims, he was the Assistant to the Director of Title III Programs at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, a Historically Black College/University (HBCU), in Tallahassee, FL.

He can be reached at (201) 307-9383 or aluzzi@simsmortgage.com.