Southeast Mortgage Expands Again with Addition of Citizens Fidelity Mortgage Corporation
Online, April 8, 2011 (Newswire.com) - ATLANTA, - Southeast Mortgage, a full service Georgia mortgage lender and one of the largest non-bank lenders in the Southeast, announces its latest expansion with the addition of Citizens Fidelity Mortgage Corporation. John Gibson, who has successfully led the financial company since its inception, founded Citizens Fidelity Mortgage in 1992. The Citizens Fidelity Mortgage merger will expand Southeast Mortgage's offices to 15.
"John is one of the top mortgage professionals and presidents in the state of Georgia," said Southeast Mortgage CEO Cal Haupt. "We are pleased to have John and his team join Southeast Mortgage and support our mission to fill the void in the Atlanta mortgage market."
Citizens Fidelity Mortgage is regarded as one of the Southeast's premier mortgage lenders. Currently, the company holds a professional license in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina. Citizens Fidelity has grown from a small mortgage broker to an award-winning mortgage lender with internal and external funding sources that include more than 25 mortgage wholesale lenders, commercial banks, insurance companies and private pension plans. Citizens Fidelity Mortgage operates five offices in metro Atlanta (Marietta, Clayton, Kennesaw, Cumming and Suwanee).
Gibson holds both an undergraduate degree in Engineering and an MBA in Business Finance from the University of Florida. Prior to founding Citizens Fidelity, Gibson was an award-winning homebuilder and real estate developer in Atlanta for more than two decades.
About Southeast Mortgage
Southeast Mortgage, founded in 1993, is the largest non-bank lender in Georgia. A regional HUD Direct Endorsed Unsupervised lender with 15 branches doing business in Georgia, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina, Southeast is a full service Georgia mortgage lender offering FHA Loans, VA Loans and conventional loans. Southeast assists its customers with first-home loans as well as refinancing customers' current, primary residences, second homes or investment properties. Southeast Mortgage offers the following services: fixed-rate loans, adjustable-rate mortgages (ARM), interest-only loans, jumbo loans, FHA and VA loans, and rate and term/cash-out refinancing. Southeast Mortgage is also the only mortgage lender to guarantee its customers an eight-day close on mortgages it originates. The firm plans to expand to 19 offices by the end of the first quarter of 2011.
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