Scotsman Guide’s Top Originators is the industry’s most-comprehensive, verified rankings of the nation’s top-producing residential mortgage brokers, originators, loan officers, bankers and more. To ensure that we publish the most-accurate data possible, all submitted data undergoes an extensive verification process prior to being published in Scotsman Guide magazines and online.
Scotsman Guide’s Top Mortgage Lenders is the industry’s most-comprehensive, verified rankings of the nation’s top-producing mortgage companies. To ensure that we publish the most-accurate data possible, all submitted data undergoes an extensive verification process prior to being published in Scotsman Guide magazines and online.
Any licensed residential mortgage originator who secured $40 million or more in production or closed 100 or more loans within the previous calendar year will be included in the Top Originator rankings online. Throughout the year we will feature many of the Top Originators who made it in the top 500 in the residential magazine.
Any originator who appeared in the Top Originators or Top Women Originators rankings that identified themself as a veteran of the United States Armed Forces will be published online. The top 100 will be published in July’s edition of the residential magazine.
Every year we receive thousands of submissions for our Top Originators rankings. To help ensure only serious submissions are made and to cover some of the production and operational expenses to produce the rankings we require a small processing fee. Fees are non-refundable. The processing fee is separate from any licensing and reuse of content cost which will be handled by Wright’s Media.
To cover some of the production and operational expenses to produce the rankings we require a small processing fee. Fees are non-refundable. The processing fee is separate from any licensing and reuse of content cost which will be handled by Wright’s Media.
Only completed submissions that meet the qualification requirements, have paid the processing fee, and can be verified by our Editorial team will be featured in the rankings either online and/or in print. Submission by itself does not guarantee you will make the rankings.
With every Top Originators submission, Scotsman Guide requires a signed verification memo at the time of entry. In addition to contact information and NMLS ID number, we ask for the following data from the previous calendar year:
To enter a bulk submission, you must use our provided template and complete the verification memo. Any submissions that do not use the template or aren’t accompanied by a completed verification memo will not be accepted!
With every submission, Scotsman Guide requires verification documents. These documents must be included at the time of entry. In addition to contact information, we ask for the following data from the previous calendar year:
Originators who worked for two companies or more during the 2022 calendar year, must add their totals from all the companies they worked for and input them as the single year totals on the entry form.
Enter the company name in this format: First Company/Second Company/Third Company/Etc. Upon verification, however, originators are required to provide production reports from all companies, and representatives from all companies must complete and sign the verification forms.
Entry is open to individuals only. Team entries will not be accepted. If you work as part of a team, each originator on the team must submit their individual production.
After completing the submission process, you will receive an email with a summary of the data submitted. Our customer service and editorial departments will then verify all completed submissions and will contact you should there be any discrepancies with your information. Any entrants who are unresponsive to our efforts to verify their submitted data will not be considered.
You will receive a confirmation message after you submit your data. You also will receive a confirmation email from Scotsman Guide to the email address you provide on your entry form with a summary of your submitted data. Please keep a copy of your confirmation email for your records.
Once you if you start the submission process you must finish it or you will be required to enter your information again. You cannot start and resume the submission at a later time.
Once you have completed your submissions you will not be allowed to make edits or changes. It is your responsibility to ensure the information is accurate before submission. If you find an error or have a question with your submission, please contact rankings@scotsmanguide.com immediately.
Those who make the rankings will be notified before they are printed and released online.
Please note: Once the data is printed or published online, we cannot make any changes. Therefore, it is important that you enter everything — your data, your company name, etc. — accurately.
We require all individual submissions to be accompanied by a verification memo signed by their company’s CPA, CFO or other authorized verification source. Our editorial team will review each submission and contact you if we find any inaccuracies between the data submitted and the supplied documents. If you are unable to respond in a timely manner to requests for further validation of your data, your submission may be rejected.
Any individual or company who is featured in our rankings will have the opportunity to license official logos, plaques and other awards from our exclusive licensing partner Wright’s Media. Wright’s Media will contact winners around the time the rankings are published with special offers to celebrate their achievement. For information, please visit https://info.wrightsmedia.com/scotsmanguide-licensing.
We used total dollar volume as a tie-breaker.
If you are interested in your brand being featuring next to the Scotsman Guide Top Originators, Top Mortgage Lenders or other Scotsman Guide ranking in the print magazine, please contact sales to learn more.
All of the fields should be unique to the individual, aside from “Company Name.”
This helps us ensure that the information you enter is accurate and linked to each individual, Additionally, by providing each individual’s contact information, we can make sure they receive email notifications if they make the rankings and provide them with subscriptions to both Scotsman Guide print magazines and our email newsletter, The Originator.
The verification memo acts as a guarantee from your company’s CPA, CFO or other verification source that the data you submitted to Scotsman Guide is accurate.
To help us verify and ensure the integrity of our rankings we ask that you provide the branch of service for any originator you would like to submit for our Top Veteran Originators. It is your responsibility to ensure all data submitted is accurate since changes will not be made after your submission has been made.
Along with each originators contact information you will also need to provide the previous year’s production numbers.
