Your
Future
is With Us
Let's open doors, together.
Cash In Your Equity
Now may be the time to finally cash in on years of hard work, including the prosperous years of 2020 and 2021.
Join Our ESOP
You and all of your full-time employees will become part of the largest employee-owned mortgage company in the country, aligning your interests with those of all APM employees, building wealth in a novel way.
Reduce Your Risk
As an owner, you’ve guaranteed virtually all business activities at your company. Let APM take on the liabilities so you can take your money off the table.
Maintain Your Brand
Enjoy the extensive perks of an APM partnership while maintaining your autonomy, company identity, brand, and reputation.
Supercharge Your Support
Legal, HR, continued investments in technology and resources, securing warehouse lines, and managing additional risks—APM has you covered. Our comprehensive support allows you to concentrate on running and growing your company without getting bogged down by administrative costs and burdens.
Small Company Feel. Big Company Benefits.
After 17+ years as an independent lender, Scott Flaherty joined APM to grow without giving up his brand. With our divisional model, he kept his identity and gained the tools, pricing, and support to scale faster. Want to hear how one IMB made the leap? Listen to Scott’s story and see what’s possible with APM.
EXPERIENCE THE
APM DIFFERENCE
Grow Your
Company
Partnering with APM allows owners to concentrate on expanding business and driving innovation without the added pressures often accompanying operational demands.
Stability You Can Count On
Free up personal assets currently tied up in securing business warehouse lines or pledged to meet regulatory net worth requirements.
A Voice with Leadership
A partnership with APM provides an opportunity to build a lasting legacy. Benefit from our established reputation and industry expertise, ensuring that your business continues to thrive for years to come.
Hear from Our Partnering Branches & IMBs
Your Experience Matters: Seamless Transition & Onboarding
Insights and Strategies from an APM Top Producer and Branch Manager
Building a Top-Performing Branch: Formula for Success
Your Experience Matters: Seamless Transition & Onboarding
Insights and Strategies from an APM Top Producer and Branch Manager
Building a Top-Performing Branch: Formula for Success
Schedule an Owner-to-Owner Conversation
I welcome the opportunity to learn more about your company and explore whether a partnership with APM could be mutually beneficial.
In all our dealings, my team and I execute with the utmost discretion and complete confidentiality.
Your Vision. Our Values.
One Powerful Partnership.
At APM, culture is the foundation of everything we do. We partner with IMBs who want to lead independently while thriving in a collaborative, production-focused environment. In this video, Brent Hicks, Divisional President of Clear Modern Mortgage, shares why APM’s culture of respect, transparency, and scrappiness made it the right fit for his 16-branch team.
Your Business, Your Way, Powered by APM
Join the many IMBs who’ve partnered with APM to stay independent while accessing the tools, pricing, and support of a national platform. Whether you grow under the APM brand or your own DBA, we give you the flexibility to lead your way.
IMB Resources
Your Future is With APM eBook
Your career. Your growth. Your future. Explore this ebook to see how APM empowers branch managers and originators to thrive in every market.
This is APM eBook
A guide to who we are, what we stand for, and why originators and branch managers choose to grow with APM.
Loan Playbook
An inside look at APM’s expansive product suite designed to help you serve more borrowers and win more business.
Frequently Asked Questions
-
APM enables Independent Mortgage Banks to de-risk, monetize, and scale without sacrificing the identity or leadership structure they’ve built. IMBs can take money off the table and reduce operational and compliance risk while maintaining the autonomy to run their business their way.
By joining APM, your brand, leadership, and culture remain intact, but you gain the strength of a nationally ranked, employee-owned mortgage platform behind you. Your team plugs directly into APM’s operational engine, enterprise-level compliance, secondary and capital markets, technology, HR, accounting, marketing, and production support, freeing you from the systems and cost burdens that slow growth and increase exposure.
You keep your people, your processes, and your model, while gaining:
- The ability to take chips off the table through a liquidity event
- Reduced operational, financial, and regulatory risk
- Access to APM’s ESOP, creating long-term wealth opportunities for your team
- Enterprise operations built to scale your existing brand
- The autonomy and leadership authority you have today
In short, APM modernizes and strengthens IMBs without stripping away what makes them unique. You maintain control of your business and brand, while APM powers everything behind the scenes to help you grow smarter, safer, and faster.
-
IMBs choose APM for its reputation as a top retail lender with a flexible structure, operational excellence, and alignment with an employee-owned company that puts originators first. APM helps IMBs simplify their business management, reduce costs, and access best-in-class systems, all while allowing leadership to focus on production, recruiting, and growth.
-
APM’s national infrastructure provides access to capital markets, loan delivery, compliance, HR, and technology efficiencies, freeing up time, money, and resources for growth. APM absorbs the cost of these services, enabling you to enjoy improved margins and stability as you scale with confidence.
-
Yes. APM partnerships are built around flexibility. IMBs can retain their name, leadership, culture, and market presence while benefiting from APM’s operational strength, regulatory coverage, and multi-channel platform.
-
IMBs gain access to APM’s integrated technology stack, which includes a modern LOS, pricing engine, CRM, and marketing automation, recruiting and analytics dashboards, and advanced data reporting tools, all optimized for loan officers and leadership teams.
-
APM’s centralized compliance and licensing teams provide full oversight, policies, and support to protect IMBs from regulatory risk. With 49-state licensing and robust QA/QC processes, APM ensures your team can operate confidently under a trusted national framework.
-
IMBs can reduce overhead, gain margin stability, and improve profit potential through APM’s volume-based pricing, national secondary execution, and shared services model. Partnering with an employee-owned lender also means joining a platform built for all employees to benefit from, providing retention and recruiting opportunities at no additional cost. This allows for you to grow with long-term sustainability, not short-term gain.
-
Unlike many aggregators or correspondent networks, APM is privately held and employee-owned. Decisions are made with long-term partnership in mind, not shareholder pressure. We prioritize relationships, culture, and the success of our originators and partners above all else.
-
APM’s dedicated transition team works closely with IMB leadership to create and implement an onboarding plan that covers licensing, operations integration, marketing, and communications. The goal is to minimize downtime and ensure a seamless transition for your team and clients.
-
You can start by booking a 1-1 Confidential Owner-to-Owner conversation from the form found on this page. We’ll reach out to learn about your goals, evaluate alignment, and discuss how APM can support your growth and transition strategy. NDAs are always provided and signed ahead of any conversation.




























