PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
George L. Duarte, MBA, CMC, CRB, CMHS
www.horizonfinance.com
Headquartered in Fremont, Ca., Horizon Financial Associates is a full-service mortgage brokerage serving the San Francisco East Bay Area in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Since 1988, Horizon Financial Associates has been dedicated to treating our clients like family – with the utmost attention to detail and customer satisfaction. We are pleased to be your comprehensive source for all of your home financing needs – from a first home, to investment property, construction loans, cash out refinances, equity lines of credit, bridge loans and reverse mortgages for purchase or refinance. Creating Opportunities, Achieving Goals and Providing Solutions are the client based goals behind our highly trained and talented team.
As your brokers, we maintain relations with the wholesale departments of most of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders, and carefully track loan products and interest rates every business day. With hundreds of lender resources we can offer a much broader range of choices than any single lender could offer, and we give our clients the highest level of service available, dedicated to finding you the best loan for your situation, earning your trust and your business for life.
We are proud to be the best choice as your professional San Francisco Bay Area guide in the world of home and small commercial financing. Consistently awarded over the years for outstanding customer service from the Better Business Bureau, Horizon Financial Associates has also been rated #65 of Loan Brokerage Firms Nationwide (Loan Origination News, 2003).
As long-standing members of the Fremont Chamber of Commerce, California Association of Mortgage Brokers and National Association of Mortgage Brokers, we maintain high levels of responsibility, accountability and stability. The majority of our new business comes from client referrals, and with good reason. Horizon Financial Associates is also a Better Business Bureau Accresited Business since 1998.
Horizon Financial Associates has a deep sense of community and are current and past sponsors of Make-a-Wish Tournament Teams, Special Olympics, Little League Teams, Newark League of Volunteers and Habitat for Humanity. We are dedicated to serving our community and being leaders in the residential and small commercial loan industry. We are your neighbors, your friends, your family, your local Realtors and knowledgeable Brokers.
PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE
Five Star Professional conducts market-specific research throughout the U.S. to identify service professionals who demonstrate professional excellence and provide quality services to their clients. The Five Star Mortgage Professional program is the largest and most widely published award program for mortgage professionals in North America, covering more than 40 major markets. Five Star award winners do not pay a fee to be included in the research or on the final list of award winners.
The Five Star Professional research team contacted thousands of recent homebuyers, consumers and industry leaders to identify San Francisco East Bay-area mortgage professionals who stand out in their industry and community.
To learn more about the research methodology, click here.
