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Updated: Chase Mortgage Wholesale Slimming Down – not closing

by Morgan on September 23, 2008

We’ve received multiple reports that Chase Mortgage Wholesale will be shutting down operations within 45 days and will no longer accept applications as of September 30th.  Apparently conference calls are happening nationwide to inform employees today. 

If you can confirm these reports please email us at tips@blownmortgage.com.

More, of course, as this develops.

Update: Chase isn’t closing wholesale, rather they’re closing a bunch of ops/sales centers to streamline the operations.  

From Chase:

 As the leading U.S. wholesale lender in the mortgage industry, we intend to remain your lending resource by making changes to become even more efficient and effective over the long-term.

Today, we are announcing plans to consolidate in four of our existing Wholesale Lending Regional Operations Centers located in Dallas; Charlotte, N.C.; Cleveland; and Orange, Calif. We will expand staffing at these sites to absorb processing from our other four centers. This transition will be complete by year-end.

As anticipated, the national implementation of ChaseLoanCenterSM has created production efficiencies throughout our organization. We expect to take advantage of scale and become more efficient by operating fewer, but larger centers.

What You Can Expect

  • Your processes with ChaseLoanCenter will remain the same
  • Your processes will remain the same if your business is currently fulfilled in Dallas, Cleveland, Charlotte or Orange
  • You will receive specific information about transition, if your business is currently fulfilled in Garden City, N.Y.; Westmont, Ill.; Tampa; or San Ramon, Calif.
  • You can count on our ongoing dedication to make this transition as easy as possible

We thank you for your business. We also appreciate your support through this change and look forward to serving your needs far into the future. If you have any questions, please contact your Account Executive.

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  • mikew
    Virtually every nationall wholesale lender has consolidated. What is so surprising is that it took them so long.

    I know for a fact that Chase has closed and consolidated a good bit on their retail side. Funny how that never makes these blogs.



  • maybe it's because they never announce the retail downsizings... i
    post most of the layoffs i get word of. this seems very typical.
    downsize, try to save the business for a quarter or two, then decide
    to kill it off. i would be surprised if they're out of wholesale in 6
    months.
  • Bob
    Chase is not laying off people. They are managing them out. There is a 4 4 4 rule in place to get people fired. 4 aps, closed loans, and in pipe at the end of the month. They are reducing half of their retail loan officers.
  • juke
    This move sounds just like what WaMu did to wholesale. They slimmed down reps, ops, etc in Dec of 07. April of 08 announced they are out of wholesale and major retail. Good luck to who is left at Chase.... Save your money while you can.
  • Bob
    I agree. I was in subprime and they told us they were committed to the business about a month before they shut us down.
  • bill
    This sounds all to familiar - are they done?
  • mikew
    I spoke with a vp in Chase Wholesale this morning. Yesterday Chase announce a downsizing to fit today's smaller marketplace just like virtually all other natioanal lenders have done. They remain 100% committed to Wholesale.

    I have spoken with several Chase employees and they claim they are tired of hearing rumors talking about them getting out of wholesale.

    On a similiar issue I had the pleasure of speaking with a representative of Fannie Mae last week on the issue of Wholesale. They said the the marketplace needs wholesale. Their would not be enough capacity to handle lending without it.

    Wholesale offers many benefits to the consumers, real estate community and lenders. In the future i would expect Wholesale to be a lot more professional and better managed.


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