Cohn named top broker for 10th year.For the 10th consecutive year, Melissa Cohn, chairman/CEO of the Manhattan Mortgage Company, is the top residential mortgage broker in the northeast and one of the country's most prolific loan originators. In 2005, Ms. Cohn ranked third nationally in Mortgage Originator Originator A bank, savings and loan, or mortgage banker that initially made a mortgage loan that is part of a pool. Also, an investment bank that has worked with the issuer of a new securities offering from the beginning and is usually appointed manager of the underwriting Magazine's annual survey by brokering a total of 1,127 individual transactions and personally closing over $781 million worth of loans. For the decade, Ms. Cohn has been the top mortgage originator nationwide six times and has finished no lower than third on four other occasions. She was the only East Coast broker to make the Top 50 list this year. "Just goes to show you what you can accomplish when you surround yourself with a great support staff and you're willing to work 75 hours a week," joked Ms. Cohn. She also attributed last year's achievement to a number of other factors, including her company's expanded marketing and technological capabilities and "staying focused on its core market." Equally impressive, four additional mortgage loan officers from the Manhattan Mortgage Company--Beth Divney, Bruce Maasbach, Janis Bronstein, and Marc Sokobin--placed in the Top 200 of the Mortgage Originator survey. Not surprisingly, Manhattan Mortgage, founded in 1985, enjoyed one of its biggest years ever in 2005, topping $3 billion in mortgage volume as it strengthened its position as the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of metropolitan area's leading residential mortgage brokerage. With Manhattan's co-op, condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. and townhouse town·house or town house n. 1. A residence in a city. 2. A row house, especially a fashionable one. markets active and her Hamptons (Bridgehampton, East Hampton East Hampton or its variants is the name of several places in the United States:
"We're certainly capable of bettering our performance, given our growing number of offices, our advances in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. technology, our improved website, our expanded staff and the number of attractively priced mortgage products currently available," she stated. Committed to building Manhattan Mortgage into a financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. giant, Ms. Cohn says she is most proud of her company's extraordinary in-house real estate and financial expertise as well as its emphasis on continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. elevating its service capabilities. The company today boasts a staff of 150, including over 90 seasoned mortgage loan officers. In addition to its eight New York offices, Manhattan Mortgage has branches in Upper Montclair, NJ and Palm Beach, FL, and is licensed in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and California. Manhattan Mortgage also brokers loans in Colorado. |
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