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First Community Mortgage announces acquisition

By DAWN HANKINS - dhankins@t-g.com
Posted 1/21/21

First Community Mortgage (FCM) recently announced that it plans to acquire A Mortgage Boutique (AMB) within the next month, pending regulatory approval. While both privately held mortgage organizations are headquartered in Murfreesboro, FCM also operates a local branch at 605 Delray St...

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First Community Mortgage (FCM) recently announced that it plans to acquire A Mortgage Boutique (AMB) within the next month, pending regulatory approval. While both privately held mortgage organizations are headquartered in Murfreesboro, FCM also operates a local branch at 605 Delray St.

"We are excited to partner with the team at AMB," said Keith Canter, FCM chief executive officer and one of its founders. "There is strong alignment between our two organizations, particularly in the value we place on people, employees, clients, and business partners and the communities we serve. These strong FCM-AMB synergies will especially enhance our ability to serve additional clients."

Canter said that upon completion and regulatory approval of the acquisition, FCM's wholesale division will rebrand as A Mortgage Boutique. In addition to an enhanced local presence, Canter says adding AMB's people and processes will strengthen the organization across the 46 states in which it originates mortgages.

"We are pleased to join with our friends at First Community Mortgage, knowing our combined organizations are truly better together," says Retta Gardner, AMB co-founder, who will become executive vice president of the Mortgage Boutique Division at FCM. This merger will enable us to continue to serve our clients, while also enhancing the service experience by leveraging a deeper set of resources. As we begin working together, we'll focus the strengths of our remarkable alignment on continued growth and leadership in the mortgage industry."

Founded in August 2019, AMB, located on Medical Center Parkway in Murfreesboro, was able to leverage previous experience to grow quickly into a multi-state lender serving Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Virginia and Ohio. In addition to Gardner, partners in AMB are Co-Founder and President Nancy Skinner and KJ Harden, who leads retail sales. The three will join the FCM team with their extensive banking, financial and mortgage experience.

"The combined capabilities of our teams are exceptional," Canter says, "so much so, that we have been saying the merger math for this is 1 + 1 = 3. What matters most is that clients and business partners of FCM and AMB will have an even better experience. Our evolution and growth continues, and we will be excited to welcome the AMB family to ours."

FCM is a wholly owned subsidiary of First Community Bank of Tennessee, and includes wholesale, correspondent and retail divisions. FCM is a FNMA, FHLMC, and GNMA seller/servicer and offers mortgage solutions to consumers and financial institutions.

An equal housing lender, FCM funded over $3.5 billion in home loans in 2020, and was recently ranked 5th among top mortgage lenders in Metro Nashville, based on 2019 volume, according to company officials. For more information, visit www.FirstCommunityMortgage.com.