Southern Trust has a family culture with a focus on the future.
Brian Picker, SVP/Regional Manager for Southern Trust Mortgage, sits down with our team to discuss his experience with Team Trust.
The culture at Southern Trust was interesting to me when I came here because it’s very much a family-oriented, smaller company and the company I came from was a bank-owned mortgage company. So, with Southern Trust being an independent company, it has much more of a family feel. Everybody knows each other, everybody’s trying to help each other. Everybody’s working towards a common goal.
With the size company we are, you can pick up the phone and basically call anybody in the company, whether it’s the head person that owns it, Jerry Flowers, or ahead of any department, whether it’s closing department compliance, you just have more access to everybody that’s in the company. There are no walls up. You have access to everybody.
“There are no walls here. Loan officers have access to everybody at Southern Trust.”
2020 was a relatively wild ride in the mortgage banking world. I’ve been in this for 20 years and it was easily the busiest year that we’ve ever seen between the mix of a fantastic purchase market, but then also the refinances that came with it because we were seeing record-low rates. Personally, I think I closed around 94 million and as a region, we closed around 650 to 700 million. We were doing as much as we can as fast as we could. It was just an incredible year all around and our company really handled it well. I am confident we’ll do even more in the future.
