Freddie Mac announced the winners of its Home Possible RISE awards. The RISE program, which stands for Recognizing Individuals for Sustained Excellence, acknowledges Freddie Mac’s top clients across multiple categories for excellence with Home Possible mortgages. Home Possible mortgages are the organization’s affordable lending solution for very low- to low-income homebuyers.
“This year’s Home Possible RISE award winners are to be commended as the pandemic weighed heavily on the industry, and the country,” Danny Gardner, Freddie Mac senior vice president, client and community engagement, said in a release. “We thank all our lender partners for their dedication and celebrate their efforts to expand responsible, sustainable homeownership.”
In 2020, Freddie Mac purchased over 116,000 Home Possible mortgage loans and has made homeownership possible for more than 509,000 families through $98.8 billion in Home Possible mortgages in the last six years.
Award winners include:
- Greatest volume
- National: Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA, Quicken Loans, LLC
- Regional: CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC, Bell Bank Mortgage, Ruoff Mortgage Company, Inc.
- Community: Neighborhood Loans, Inc., Central National Bank, Lyons National Bank
- Corporate: Gold Star Mortgage Financial Group Corp., Impact Credit Union
- Fastest Growth
- National: Lakeview Loan Servicing, Mr. Cooper
- Regional: LendUS, LLC, Everett Financial, Inc. dba Supreme Lending
- Community: TowneBank, Mortgage 1, Inc.
- Corporate: Gold Star Mortgage Financial Group Corp.
- Correspondent Volume: TowneBank
- HFA Advantage Volume: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., Guild Mortgage, Academy Mortgage Corp.
- New Originator
- National: Proper Rate, LLC
- Regional: Keybank National Association
- Community: Northwest Bank, Neighborhood Loans, Inc.
- Broker Volume: Edge Home Finance Corp.
Awards combined volume from the Home Possible program and the now-retired Home Possible Advantage mortgage options. The HFA Advantage category reflect only that program volume for the year, whether the winner is a lender or housing finance agency. In order to qualify, lenders must be active Freddie Mac seller/servicers, and correspondent lenders and brokers must originate through those seller/servicers.