Mortgage Firms Ranked Among Best Employers
Companies tout top placement on lists
March 7, 2017
By SAM GARCIA Mortgage Daily
Several real estate finance firms were recently named as top employers in their communities, while some also touted their standing among peers.
The San Diego Union Tribune named Guild Mortgage Co. to its San Diego’s Top Workplaces ranking, according to a Jan. 4 press release.
Guild said the list was limited to organizations that had at least 50 employees on their payroll. Guild employs 600 of its 3,606 staff in San Diego.
The San Diego-based firm said it was its fourth consecutive year on the ranking, which included 69 participating employers. Guild was No. 5 in the category of companies with at least 500 employees.
The Baltimore Sun named NFM Lending as a Top Workplace in the Baltimore area, a Dec. 17, 2016, statement said. It reportedly was the fifth year in a row on the ranking, which was based on an employee survey that considered job satisfaction, engagement, and company values, as well as the organizational health of the firm.
Headcount at NFM exceeded 400 people as of Jan. 6.
New American Funding said last month that it was ranked by the Orange County Business Journal as one of the top minority-owned businesses headquartered in Orange County.
It was the third year in a row on the list for the Tustin, California-based mortgage banker, which reported a staff of 2,400 as of Feb. 14. Co-founder Patty Arvielo is Hispanic.
New American, which reports 130 branches, said inclusion on the list was limited to immigrant-owned firms or companies with staff that were a majority Hispanic, black, Asian-American or Native American. A total of 78 companies made the list.
New American additionally announced that it was among National Mortgage Professional’s 2017 Top Mortgage Employers.
NMP’s list also reportedly included Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., where headcount finished last year at 4,312 people; Primary Residential Mortgage Inc., which ranked among the top-10 and had 2,054 employees as of year-end 2016; Envoy Mortgage LTD, where employees operate from more than 150 branches; Key Mortgage Services Inc., a Chicago-based firm with 85 employees; and Radian Guaranty Inc.
Among companies to tout their placement on another industry ranking, Mortgage Executive Magazine’s 50 Best Companies to Work For, were Union Home Mortgage Corp., which reportedly was No. 6, and NFM.
The Mortgage Executive ranking is reportedly based on a survey of more than 10,000 loan originators from more than 200 companies.
