UFM United Financial Mortgage Corp

United Financial Mortgage Corp. Announces Closing of Vision Mortgage Group, Inc. Acquisition OAK BROOK, Ill., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Financial Mortgage Corp. (AMEX:UFM) (the "Company") announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Vision Mortgage Group, Inc. ("Vision Mortgage"). Vision Mortgage, which has served the Rockford (Rock River Valley), Illinois area since 1999, was one of the largest mortgage originators in the Rock River Valley area in 2003. Mr. Cass Wolfenberger and Mr. Michael Urnezis, founders of Vision Mortgage, will remain with the Company and will serve as President and Senior Vice President, respectively, of the Vision Mortgage division of UFM. For the year ended December 31, 2003, Vision Mortgage originated $148 million in mortgage loans. Through the first seven months of this year, Vision Mortgage has originated $78.6 million in mortgage loans, with purchase money mortgages comprising 65% of its originations. For the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004, UFM had reported revenues of $70.2 million with earnings of $.97 per diluted share. About United Financial Mortgage Corp. United Financial Mortgage Corp. is an independent originator and servicer of residential and commercial mortgage loans. The Company is headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois and has 45 offices in 14 states. For additional information, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.ufmc.com/. This press release contains, and future oral and written statements may contain, forward-looking statements within the meaning of such term in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to the Company's business, financial condition, results of operations, plans, objectives and future performance. Forward-looking statements, which may be based upon beliefs, expectations and assumptions of management and on information currently available to management, are generally identifiable by the use of words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "plan," "intend," "estimate," "may," "will," "would," "could," "should" or other similar expressions. Additionally, all statements in this document, including forward-looking statements, speak only as of the date they are made, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any statement in light of new information or future events. A number of factors, many of which are beyond the ability of the Company to control or predict, could cause actual results to differ materially from those in its forward-looking statements. These factors include, among others, the following: (i) changes in demand for mortgage loans due to fluctuations in the real estate market, interest rates or the market in which the Company sells its mortgage loans; (ii) the Company's access to funding sources and its ability to renew, replace or add to its existing credit facilities on terms comparable to the current terms; (iii) assumptions underlying the value of the Company's retained mortgage loan-servicing rights; (iv) the negative impact of economic slowdowns or recessions; (v) management's ability to manage the Company's growth and planned expansion; (vi) the effect of the competitive pressures from other lenders or suppliers of credit in the Company's market; (vii) changes in government regulations that affect the Company's business; (viii) the Company's ability to expand origination volume while reducing overhead; (ix) the impact of new state or federal legislation or court decisions restricting the activities of lenders or suppliers of credit in the Company's market; (x) other risk factors disclosed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission; and (xi) the inability of the Company to manage the risks associated with the foregoing as well as anticipated. These risks and uncertainties should be considered in evaluating forward-looking statements and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Additional information concerning the Company and its business, including additional factors that could materially affect the Company's financial results, is included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. DATASOURCE: United Financial Mortgage Corp. CONTACT: Steve Khoshabe, President & Chief Executive Officer, United Financial Mortgage Corp., +1-630-571-7222, or fax: +1-630-571-2623, or ; or Dave Gentry, Aurelius Consulting Group, Inc., or +1-407-644-4256, or fax: +1-407-644-0758, or , for United Financial Mortgage Corp. Web site: http://www.ufmc.com/

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