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Delivering the Promise of Home

Achieve your potential with a stable, supportive, sales-driven team.

  • 2X
    Your business

    Double the loans

    The top 50% of Guild originators close double the number of loans as the top 50% industry-wide.*

  • 96
    Customer referrals

    Customers for life

    More than 96% of Guild customers say they’re likely to recommend us to others. And our retained servicing means we recapture business when it’s time to move or refi.**

  • 75
    LO retention

    Find a home

    Over the last five years, 75% of our originations were produced from loan officers who are still with us today.***

  • *Source: MMI 2023 data. **Per the 2023 MortgageCX survey. ***Guild Mortgage 2023 annual report

What you get with Guild

Guild is a dominant leader in the mortgage space with a culture of collaboration and entrepreneurial excellence that allows loan officers
to operate independently.

Coaching

Boost your production by 24%, build a team, and expand your loan offerings with Elevate coaching, sales training support, and ongoing professional development opportunities.*

Technology

By integrating our Salesforce-based CRM, proprietary LoanHub LOS (with Scenario Builder,) and personalized marketing automation, you can streamline your day-to-day while amplifying your brand in the marketplace.

Products

As a direct lender with strong GSE relationships, Guild offers unique loan programs designed to qualify more buyers to achieve lower payments, increased down payment assistance and service-level guarantees to protect your customers’ loan approval, interest rate and closing.

Stability

Since 2021, we’ve absorbed six companies, expanding our influence nationwide, with plans for future expansion. Still, we remain true to our core. The longevity
of our leadership provides clear direction and expectation of a prosperous future.

Sales-driven

We understand that sales drives our business. Sales teams are provided with the resources they need to serve their market as they know best on the local level. Each year, we recognize their contributions to our company culture with an annual sales summit including over 500+ originators as well as club designations awarded to over 240.

*Based on 2023 internal company data, Guild loan officers enrolled in Elevate Coaching closed 24% more purchase units than their production-level peers. Elevate is an internal company coaching program.

Watch & Learn

Guild is home to some of the top producers and influencers in the mortgage industry. Watch how Guild allowed them to expand their business and reach new heights.

  • Barriers Don’t Exist

  • Females in Finance

  • Person to Person Sales

  • Leadership Summit 2024

Where We Came From

  • 1960

    Our Founding

    Guild Mortgage was founded in San Diego in 1960 by Martin Gleich, providing loans to purchasers of homes built by American Housing Guild.

  • 1968

    Homebuyer Advocates

    Guild has been experts in government-backed Federal Housing Authority loans for first-time homebuyers since the beginning, and in 1968, started working with Ginnie Mae to help expand affordable housing finance options.

  • 1990

    Tech Forward

    Guild recognized the technological edge early, building a custom LOS and later investing in a Salesforce-based CRM integration out of which 
all sales resources are linked. 

  • 2007

    Nationwide Growth

    In 2007, former CEO Mary Ann McGarry and current CEO Terry Schmidt took over leadership, and by 2017, Guild had grown to reach 25 states.

  • 2020

    Going Public

    Guild became a public company in 2020. Since then, we have continued to expand through six strategic acquisitions: Residential Mortgage Services, Inlanta Mortgage, Legacy Mortgage, Cherry Creek Mortgage, First Centennial Mortgage and Academy Mortgage.

Let’s Grow Together

Let’s Grow Together