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Irwin
Irwin Mortgage Corporation started its business in 1944 and
was originally named Inland Mortgage Company; it was bought
by Irwin Financial Corporation in 1981 and its name was
changed to Irwin Mortgage in 1998. Irwin Mortgage
Corporation is today one of America’s top mortgage companies
and has over 100 offices throughout America and has done
over 12 billion dollars of business in residential loans.
Irwin Mortgage Corporation does conventional mortgaging but
relies on giving loans that are backed by FHA or VA and in
the conventional loans they provide mortgages on those
houses that meet the requirements of the Federal National
Mortgage Association the federal Home Loan Bank or the
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. Most of their
mortgage loans are either insured or backed by a federal
backed government agency. Irvin mortgage is a well reputed
mortgage company and their web site has a lot of information
on it and one can get a loan or a refinance from them. They
invested heavily in their customer support systems and in
their IT security systems and in data warehousing. The
company is one of the oldest mortgage companies in America
and there have been hardly any customer complaints or any
law suites filed against them. They are known to be a very
stable and financially sound mortgage company and they have
the backing of Irwin Financials.
In a surprise move in August 2007 Irwin financial announced
that they were selling Irwin Mortgage to Freedom Mortgage as
they thought that Freedom Mortgage was better aligned with
the direction that Irwin mortgage had taken and that Freedom
Mortgage would acquire all of Irwin mortgages initiated
mortgage loans and their loan originating sector. The other
sectors of Irwin mortgage are being sold separately as and
when Irwin Financial finds suitable buyers. With the take
over of its loan originating sector by Freedom mortgage now
one cannot access the Irwin web site and are redirected to
Freedom mortgage.
Freedom Mortgage corporation has been in the mortgage
lending business since 1990 and have their headquarters in
Mount Laurel, Philadelphia. They provide a large range of
home mortgages and they have quite a friendly web page which
has a lot of links for new home buyers and for those who are
looking for refinancing. Their web site also has mortgage
calculators and other tools and other tools that anyone can
use and one can also check their lending rates right from
their web site.
With the takeover of Irwin Mortgage the number of offices
and staff and the states in which Freedom Mortgage now
operates has increased and they are no longer limited to
providing home mortgage loans only in the states that they
used to focus on. With the acquisition of Irwin originated
mortgages their customer base has also expanded and now
there are more customers that the company can focus on for
refinancing and other mortgage loans. With this increase in
operations freedom mortgage is also employing more people
and expanding their broker network so that they can reach
out to the maximum number of customers across America.
The acquisition of Irwin mortgage has moved freedom mortgage
into the league of the major mortgage companies and to
compete with them they will have to continue to provide the
quality of service that was expected from Irwin Mortgage
customers.
Irwin mortgage customers will remember the standard of
service that they got from Irwin mortgage and will expect
freedom mortgage to provide the same or a better level of
service to them. Freedom Mortgage corporation is making all
the right moves to draw more customers to them and providing
the high standard of service that one of America’s leading
mortgage company was providing and who had a long history of
being in the mortgage business.
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