Guild Mortgage Ranks High Among Scotsman Guide’s 2025 Top Mortgage Lenders

San Diego – June 27, 2025 – Guild Mortgage, a leading national independent lender founded in 1960, has earned multiple prominent recognitions in the 2025 Scotsman Guide Top Mortgage Lender rankings.

Compared to the previous year, Guild jumped three spots into the top 10 Overall Lenders, securing ninth place; similarly, Guild earned the fifth spot among the country’s Top Retail Lenders, after two consecutive years in seventh place. As a community-focused lender with local branches coast-to-coast*, the designation highlights Guild’s success in collaborating with trusted industry professionals to serve clients despite market volatility.

Guild also scored seventh among the Top FHA Lenders and placed 11th as a Top VA Lender. Up two spots from last year, ranking in the top 10 FHA Lenders serves as an attestation to the company’s goal of helping more Americans achieve homeownership through innovative loan products and community outreach. Similarly, Guild’s continued commitment to providing affordable home financing for military families is reflected in this year’s higher VA Lender ranking.

“Our mission at Guild is to deliver the promise of home to more and more families, and these rankings prove just how hard our teams across the country have worked to serve their communities,” said Terry Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Guild Mortgage. “We are not done growing the Guild brand. It’s our goal to create even more attainable and sustainable paths to homebuying by welcoming new teammates, expanding to new areas and innovating our products and services in the years ahead.”

The annual Scotsman Guide awards are coveted industry accolades that provide yearly benchmarks for all mortgage professionals. Rankings are determined in order of the previous year’s production volume.