KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc

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KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (KREF) Insider Activity

What the officers, directors and large holders did with their own shares. Only open-market purchases and sales count toward the totals — grants, option exercises and shares withheld for tax are compensation mechanics, not decisions, and they're listed separately below.

Insider signal In line Selling ran in line with KREF's own trailing one-year pace, with 0% of sale value under a prearranged plan.
Cluster activity 0 buyers in the last 30 days 0 buyers in the last 90 days 0 sellers in the last 90 days
Insiders buying
4
6 transactions
Insiders selling
1
2 transactions
Purchases
$1.2M
178,700 shares
Sales
$2.1M
250,578 shares
Net activity
-$846.8K
purchases less sales

How much of that selling was preplanned? 0% planned / 100% discretionary

10b5-1 plan sales $0 0 transactions · 0 shares
Discretionary sales $2.1M 2 transactions · 250,578 shares

Largest single sale: $1.0M.

Where they traded

Buy Sell Dot area is proportional to transaction value.

Last open-market purchase: April 24, 2026 , by Salem Matthew A .

Recent open-market activity

Date Insider Role Action Shares Price Value Held after
Salem Matthew A Chief Executive Officer Buy 60,000 $6.04 $362.5K 703,075
Mattson W Patrick President, COO and Secretary Buy 40,000 $6.03 $241.1K 500,287
ROSENBERG RALPH F 2 fills Director Sell 250,578 $8.25 $2.1M None left
Lee Christen E.J. Director Buy 10,000 $7.80 $78.0K 229,133
Salem Matthew A Chief Executive Officer Buy 32,000 $7.84 $251.0K 561,825
AHERN TERRANCE R Director Buy 23,700 $7.81 $185.2K 62,556
Mattson W Patrick President and COO Buy 13,000 $7.91 $102.8K 386,787

Form 4s are due within two business days of a transaction, so this is close to real time — unlike the quarterly 13F data on the Institutional tab. A single large sale often reflects a prearranged 10b5-1 plan rather than a fresh view, so read a pattern of sales rather than any one of them.