Loan Think

What We're Hearing

Published April 14, 2009, 5:00 a.m. EDT

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National Mortgage News has just released its final tally for the nation's top 100 lenders and the news wasn't entirely gloomy (though it certainly wasn't pretty). These four top 20 lenders actually increased their single-family originations last year: Franklin American Mortgage (+51%), U.S. Bank Home Mortgage (+26%), Branch Banking & Trust (+21%), and Flagstar Bancorp (+16%). The rankings appear in NMN's Quarterly Data Report and a version will appear in next week's newspaperâ¦

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