• December 29, 2010

The Re/Max of New England real estate firm has signed a marketing agreement with California-based Prospect Mortgage.

The partnership makes the mortgage company the real estate office's preferred lender. The companies plan to share branding and messaging as part of the agreement.

Prospect is among the nation's largest mortgage companies in closed loan volume. It has 10 New England branches and is backed by Sterling Partners, a private equity firm with $4 billion under management.

Re/Max of New England has more than 220 offices in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.--Tanya Irwin