A national invitation · Loan officers, teams & branches
Fairway Day is how the country's #2 retail lender opens its doors — a confidential, no-pressure look at the support, technology, and culture behind Fairway Home Mortgage. Hosted live on Zoom by Holly Mattson, Co-President of Recruiting.
🔒 Confidential. No pressure. No obligation. No one will know you attended.
Holly Mattson
Fairway · Recruiting
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Overall retail lender in the U.S.
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States licensed (plus D.C.)
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Years since Fairway launched in 1996
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LOs who came back to Fairway last year
The main event
One Zoom session that replaces months of guesswork. Instead of recruiting calls and glossy decks, you experience Fairway the way its own people do — then decide for yourself.
How Fairway actually runs — the priorities, the math, and the answers to the questions recruiters usually dodge.
Real demos of the origination stack and AI tools — not screenshots. Watch what a file feels like at Fairway.
The 10 Core Values aren't wall art. You'll hear from originators who moved — including what surprised them.
Open Q&A with people who will give you a straight answer — including "we're not the right fit" when it's true.
Virtual · via Zoom · Hosted by Holly Mattson · Confidential. No pressure. No obligation. No one will know you attended.
Since 1996
Steve Jacobson started Fairway in 1996 with a simple obsession: speed to respond, and humility in how you do it. Thirty years later that obsession built the #2 overall retail lender in America — and it still decides how every file, every hire, and every day gets handled.
Why originators move
Founder and CEO Steve Jacobson has said it for three decades: speed to respond is priority one. Operations, underwriting, and support are all structured to keep your files — and your referral partners — moving.
Fairway was ranked #1 in mortgage origination borrower satisfaction by J.D. Power in 2023. Your clients' experience is your brand — Fairway protects it.
Fairway Home Insurance, Fairway Home Connect, and the Made For Home credit card create new revenue streams for originators while deepening client relationships between transactions.
Corporate marketing, local branch creative teams, and personal-brand support — from social content to custom LO websites — so your pipeline never depends on you becoming a designer.
174 loan originators came back to Fairway last year after trying other companies. The grass gets inspected a lot. It keeps losing.
Exploring is private, always. From the first email to the day you decide — nothing reaches your current employer.
Technology & AI
Fairway's thesis is simple: AI shouldn't replace the loan officer — it should make one great loan officer feel like a team of five. The stack handles the busywork; you handle the relationships.
A borrower experience fast enough to win the deal at 9pm on a Sunday — because that's when buyers apply.
Document reading, income analysis, and file-prep automation that shrink hours of grunt work into minutes.
CRM journeys, listing content, and stay-in-touch campaigns that run while you're at closings.
Your past clients stay yours — monitoring and alerts surface refinance and move-up opportunities before the competition calls.
Know exactly where every file stands — and let your agents know before they ask.
Every tool above gets demoed at a Fairway Day. Bring your hardest "yeah, but does it actually…" questions.
Culture & giving back
Fairway runs on its 10 Core Values — humility first among them — and puts its money where its mission is.
Fairway founded AWI, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that funds life-changing service dogs for veterans and first responders — celebrating its 400th funded service dog in 2025, with 100% of donations going directly to warriors.
When Fairway families and communities are hit by illness or hardship, Fairway Cares shows up — funded in large part by voluntary contributions from Fairway's own people.
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years in the business
Your host
Co-President of Recruiting · Fairway Home Mortgage
Holly is in her 32nd year in the mortgage business and her 11th at Fairway, where she rose through VP of TPO Production, VP of Branch Business Development, and SVP of Sales & Recruiting before being named Co-President of Recruiting in 2026. As Fairway's top internal recruiter, she and her team welcomed 174 loan originators back to Fairway last year alone.
Her promise to every candidate is the same: a confidential conversation, zero pressure, and an honest read on whether Fairway is your fit — including telling you when it isn't.
The road, mapped
Grab a Zoom seat at the next Virtual Fairway Day. Takes 30 seconds.
Leadership, live tech demos, culture, open Q&A — judge it all for yourself.
A confidential one-on-one with Holly about your book, your team, and your numbers.
A transition plan built around your pipeline — so no deal gets left behind.
Onboarding, marketing, and tech setup handled — you originate from day one.
Straight answers
It’s a live Zoom session where you experience Fairway from the inside: leadership shares how the company actually runs, you see the technology and AI tools in action, you hear directly from originators who made the move, and you get open Q&A time. No scripts, no hard sell — it’s a look under the hood.
Yes. Attending a Fairway Day is completely confidential — your current company will not be contacted, and nothing about your attendance is shared. Exploring your options is normal, smart, and private.
Individual loan officers, producing teams, and full branches anywhere in the U.S. Fairway is licensed in all 50 states, so wherever you originate today, there’s a seat for you on the Zoom.
No. Registering gets you a Zoom link — that’s it. There’s no application, no obligation, and no follow-up pressure. If it’s not the right fit, you’ll still leave knowing more about the market than when you joined.
Fairway is the #2 overall retail lender in the U.S., founded in 1996 by Steve Jacobson and built around one obsession: speed and service for the originator. Add the home.com ecosystem — Fairway Home Insurance, Fairway Home Connect, and the Made For Home credit card — and originators get revenue streams and client connection most platforms simply don’t offer.
Email Holly Mattson directly. With 32 years in the business and 11 years at Fairway, she’ll give you a straight, confidential answer about whether Fairway is your fit — including telling you if it isn’t.
One Zoom link. Two hours. Zero obligation. See what your business could look like at Fairway — and nobody has to know you looked.
