Florida’s Largest Privately-Held Residential Mortgage Company Appoints Two Veterans to Head Jacksonville Office

Lake Mary, Fla. -- Integrity Home Loan, Florida’s largest and most active residential mortgage provider, recently appointed two veteran mortgage specialists to its Northeast Florida Regional Office at 8130 Baymeadows Way in Jacksonville. Matt Malloy, president of Integrity Home Loan of Central Florida, Inc., said he appointed Jim O’Neal and Keith C. Evans loan officers in Jacksonville. O’Neal, appointed Senior Loan Originator for Northeast Florida, is a veteran loan officer with more than 25 years of experience. A lifelong Jacksonville-area resident, O’Neal graduated from Orange Park High School in 1988. His mortgage experience includes positions with Jacksonville-based Vystar Credit Union and PHH Mortgage in Jacksonville, where he originated and processed loans for Charles Schwab and Merrill Lynch. Evans, appointed Loan Originator in the Jacksonville office, has more than 15 years of experience as a lender. Evans founded EQ Financial, Inc., in Jacksonville in 1999 and grew the company to include five locations with 76 employees. “We are very proud to serve Northeast Florida with two of the most experienced residential mortgage officers in the northeast Florida region,” Malloy said. Integrity Home Loan provided more than 2,700 mortgage loans last year totaling more than $600 million from 11 branches including the Central Florida headquarters in Lake Mary, and locations in Coral Springs, West Palm Beach, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, and in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Mich. Malloy projects Integrity will serve up more than 3,200 residential mortgage loans in 2013.