Real estate has always been the family business for Steve Smith, whose mother was a Realtor. “I’ve literally been talking about real estate at the dinner table for 40 years,” he shares. Now a 19-year industry veteran, he is known for his unique problem-solving skills and his speed from application to closing. “We have a long history of closings in under three weeks” he explains. “I often close loans for clients that other lenders said could not be done.”
A senior mortgage consultant with Wintrust Mortgage, Smith is licensed in all 50 states and serves clients seeking down-payment assistance; conventional, jumbo, FHA, VA and USDA mortgages; and construction-to-permanent and portfolio lending. “I am always available to my clients and referral sources,” he declares. “My cellphone is constantly buzzing from a text or a call, and I respond 24/7.”
Smith has been a top performer at Wintrust Mortgage after working with another company for almost 15 years. He has been in the Wintrust Mortgage President’s Circle every year he has been with the company. “This is both a testament of my hard work and representing an amazing company,” he says. In past years, he has ranked among the top 1% of loan originators in the United States according to Scotsman Guide, appeared in Who’s Who in Residential Real Estate for both Chicago and Lake Geneva and received a consistent stream of honors and awards in recognition of his professional excellence.
He is on the board of York Community High School’s York Music Boosters, and is a musician himself, performing with the band Tributosaurus in Chicago a few times a year. He is an avid fisherman and has been featured on TV and the YouTube show “The Musky Hunter” numerous times.
