{"id":316843,"date":"2026-06-23T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316843\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:50:07","slug":"nahrep-south-floridas-top-latino-mortgage-originators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316843\/","title":{"rendered":"NAHREP: South Florida’s top Latino mortgage originators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julio Silva<\/a> is the top-transacting Latino mortgage originator in South Florida, according to the annual Top 250 ranking from the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Silva, an agent with CrossCountry Mortgage, handled 231 transactions last year with a volume of nearly $136 million.<\/p>\n

All told, NAHREP\u2019s Top 250<\/a> represents 40 states and Puerto Rico. Men make up 61% of the ranking, while women make up 39%. Nearly 60% have 11 or more years of experience, followed by six to 10 years at 28% and two to five years at 12%. Eighty-one percent are bilingual.<\/p>\n

DHI Mortgage ranked as the top company in the country, with 52 loan officers in the Top 250. DHI was followed by CrossCountry Mortgage with 22, New American Funding with 14, Rate with 14 and Guild Mortgage Company with 13.<\/p>\n

Meet all the South Florida mortgage lenders featured on NAHREP\u2019s ranking:<\/p>\n

No. 32 \u2013 Julio Silva, CrossCountry Mortgage
231 transactions, $135,947,644<\/p>\n

No. 43 \u2013 Emmanuel Fajardo, Cornerstone First Mortgage
210 transactions, $78,118,451<\/p>\n

No. 59 \u2013 Cebi Stough, DHI Mortgage
194 transactions, $65,568,878<\/p>\n

No. 73 \u2013 Damarys Prieto, Sunshine Lending
179 transactions, $49,280,870<\/p>\n

No. 77 \u2013 Alejandra Rivera, DHI Mortgage
175 transactions, $54,957,725<\/p>\n

No. 81 \u2013 Lorena Martinez, DHI Mortgage
172 transactions, $50,110,479<\/p>\n

No. 95 \u2013 Esteban Moreno, DHI Mortgage
161 transactions, $66,943,736<\/p>\n

No. 106 \u2013 Luis Baez, DHI Mortgage
156 transactions, $74,071,492<\/p>\n

No. 134 \u2013 Nayleen Molina, loanDepot
141 transactions, $34,342,900<\/p>\n

No. 154 \u2013 Susel Hernandez, loanDepot
130 transactions, $28,455,969<\/p>\n

No. 178 \u2013 Ernesto Salazar, American Pacific Mortgage
119 transactions, $44,700,170<\/p>\n

No. 186 \u2013 Cristina Payero, American Pacific Mortgage
118 transactions, $47,139,735<\/p>\n

No. 210 \u2013 Pamela Fajardo, Easy Mortgage
110 transactions, $35,333,668<\/p>\n

No. 226 \u2013 Alejandro Otero, Paramount Residential Mortgage Group, Inc.
105 transactions, $43,015,523<\/p>\n

No. 227 \u2013 Letty Gutierrez, Rate
105 transactions, $32,591,246<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julio Silva is the top-transacting Latino mortgage originator in South Florida, according to the annual Top 250 ranking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131667,131668,131669,131670,131671,131672,131673,131674,131675,131676,131677,131678,131679,28,30,29,3638,131680,131681,131682,68111,131683,131684,126147,126148,131685,131686,131687,33847,875,131688,131689,131690],"class_list":["post-316843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alejandra-rivera","tag-alejandro-otero","tag-american-pacific-mortgage","tag-cebi-stough","tag-cornerstone-first-mortgage","tag-cristina-payero","tag-crosscountry-mortgage","tag-damarys-prieto","tag-dhi-mortgage","tag-easy-mortgage","tag-emmanuel-fajardo","tag-ernesto-salazar","tag-esteban-moreno","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-inc","tag-julio-silva","tag-latino-mortgage-originators","tag-letty-gutierrez","tag-loandepot","tag-lorena-martinez","tag-luis-baez","tag-nahrep","tag-national-association-of-hispanic-real-estate-professionals","tag-nayleen-molina","tag-pamela-fajardo","tag-paramount-residential-mortgage-group","tag-sc","tag-south-florida-real-estate","tag-sunshine-lending","tag-susel-hernandez","tag-top-250"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}