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Acquisitions May 15, 2008
• Guild Mortgage Company Acquires Liberty Financial Group and Expands Reach to High Credit-Quality Borrowers
Guild Mortgage Company recently completed the acquisition of Liberty Financial Group, a Bellevue, WA residential mortgage bank. Liberty annually originates close to $1 billion of prime home loans through its network of branches located predominately in Washington and Colorado. -- Guild Mortgage Company,Matthew Fine,San Diego California 05/13/2008
• Origen Financial Announces Agreement to Sell Servicing Platform Assets to Green Tree Servicing LLC
Origen Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:ORGN) , a real estate investment trust that is in the business of originating and servicing manufactured housing loans, today announced it has entered into an agreement for the sale of its servicing platform assets to Green Tree Servicing LLC ("Green Tree"), a leading servicer of manufactured housing loans, as well as other residential and consumer loans. Upon completion, the transaction will include the transfer of approximately $1.6 billion of manufactured housing loans. Proceeds from the sale would be used to retire a $15 million loan secured by the servicing assets, to partially repay a $46 million secured loan facility entered into in April 2008 and for working capital. As part of the sale transaction, Green Tree will assume the lease for Origen's Fort Worth, Texas servicing facility. -- Origen Financial,W. Anderson Geater,Southfield MI 05/01/2008
