JOIN FAIRWAYBuild · Scale · Grow

The national recruiting home of Fairway Home Mortgage

Build. Scale. Grow. Your business — augmented. 

Thirty years, fifty states, employee-owned — and the most aggressive tech, AI, and marketing platform in the industry, built to augment the originator. Never to replace you.

Nobody will know you're looking. That's the whole point.

Honestly? I'm producing fine. Why would I move anywhere?
Because 'fine' is the ceiling where you are. Here it's the floor. Let me show you the stack — confidentially.
Holly Mattson · President of Recruiting
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Years of Fairway (est. April 1996)
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Employee-owned — Fairway is being sold back to the Fairway team

Technology & AI

AI won’t replace loan officers. Loan officers with AI will replace loan officers without it.

Fairway partnered with OpenAI in 2025 and builds AI to augment the originator — never to automate them away. The formula is simple: your expertise, plus AI leverage, equals more closings — same you.

Your expertiseAI leverageMore closings. Same you.

The Fairway Tech Stack

Five systems. One loan officer. An unfair advantage.

Personal web presence, an AI layer, CRM automation, branded reporting, and business intelligence — designed as one system and put directly in your hands.

  • Personal Web Presence. Your own launch-ready site — brand, calculators, program pages, education hubs — built on a hardened house stack and shipped in days, not quarters.
  • The AI Layer. AI-assisted workflows across marketing, ops, and intelligence — built to augment you, never replace you.
  • CRM & Automation. Enterprise CRM with automated journeys — birthdays, rate watches, annual reviews — that run while you originate.
  • Branded Reporting. Polished, Fairway-branded proposals, refi analyses, and market reports — generated in minutes, not evenings.
  • Business Intelligence. Know your market, your partners, and your pipeline — with dossiers and analytics most branches have never seen.

Tour the full stack →

The stack, in motion — made in-house by our Design team.

Hear it straight

The story — and why originators keep making the move

The Story of Fairway — with Steve Jacobson
Why Fairway Makes Sense for Originators — Bill Murphy

The Marketing Engine

Your brand, run like a product

Most originators are their own unpaid marketing department. At Fairway, marketing is infrastructure — creative, compliant, and always on.

A real marketing department

In-house creative — design, social, events, campaign calendars — that keeps your brand alive without you lifting a finger.

Your personal brand, productized

Sites, landing pages, listing launches, co-branded pieces — compliance-checked before anything ships.

Content that compounds

Video, social, and education content built around you — so borrowers and agents already know you before the first call.

Compliance as a feature

Marketing pre-flight checks catch disclosure issues before they ship — you get speed without the risk.

Inside the marketing engine →

The operating system

Ten core values. Written by employees, not consultants.

Fairway's values were crafted with employee input — what the team itself said mattered. They decide internal awards, they shape hiring, and yes, #3 is official policy.

1Humility first
2Foster growth and knowledge
3Have funSee below ↓
4Create an amazing experience
5Speed of response
6Seek wise counsel
7Respect, listen and stay balanced
8Committed to serve
9Consistent, honest communication
10Family focused

The story behind the values →

Core value #3

Have fun. We're serious about it.

Fairway's ten core values were written with employee input — and the third one, in a multi-billion-dollar mortgage company's official value system, is have fun. So we built an arcade game into our recruiting site. Naturally.

Who you'd really be joining

Loans are what we do. Not who we are.

Fairway runs two nonprofits, moves first when disaster strikes — then publicly challenges the rest of the industry to match it.

$2M+Disaster relief, 2024–25
450+AWI service dogs placed
15,000+Fairway Cares packages
Est. 2015 · Founded by Fairway

American Warrior Initiative

Bridging the military–civilian divide through service dogs, ambassador programs, and community education — with every expense underwritten by Fairway, so donated dollars go to the mission.

  • Service dogs placed450+
  • Expenses covered byFairway
  • Milestone400th dog, 2025
Est. 2016 · Funded by employees

Fairway Cares

Hope, encouragement, and relief for those facing critical illness, trauma, or loss — care packages with handwritten notes, and financial grants when they're needed most.

  • Care packages sent15,000+
  • Every one includesA handwritten note
  • Financial grants2,000+

See the full impact — AWI, Fairway Cares, Jake's Place →

Your two people

Meet Holly and Julie

One conversation each. Zero pressure from either.

Holly Mattson, President of Recruiting

Holly Mattson

President of Recruiting

Holly leads Fairway’s national recruiting effort with three decades in the business. Her promise to every candidate: confidential conversations, zero pressure, and an honest look at whether Fairway is your fit.

Julie Fry, Chief People & Engagement Officer

Julie Fry

Chief People & Engagement Officer

Julie owns the people side of Fairway — the culture behind six consecutive USA TODAY Top Workplaces awards, judged entirely on confidential employee feedback.

“To be named a Top Workplace for six consecutive years speaks to Fairway’s leadership, our mindset, and the empowerment of our staff.” — PR Newswire, April 2026

100% confidential — always

Ready for an honest conversation?

No pressure. No spam list. Nobody finds out you asked. Talk to Holly confidentially, or slip quietly into a Virtual Fairway Day and just watch.

There’s a whole other side of Fairway

Reverse mortgages aren’t a footnote here — they’re a division with a president, its own processing centers, and a referral program that pays forward LOs. Flip the site over and see it.

Flip to Reverse