About

Here’s why you should work with The Alex Jaffe Team:

• Experience matters. I am a top producer at First Home Mortgage, and a nationally ranked top producer countrywide. First Home is the largest private lender in the region; we are top 5 by business volume in DC and largest lender in MD
• We use technology to automatically update you to track loan progress, and a secure web portal for filling out applications and uploading documents
• I have an experienced, communicative, and reliable team focused solely on our clients’ applications.
• Fast approval time frames – averaging 17 days from application to clear to close
• We pull dozens of pricing options daily to get the best possible loan terms
• Realtors and clients recommend us
• I am the #1 producer for DC Open Doors

Alex Jaffe is Branch Sales Manager of our Chevy Chase office, and a Senior Loan Officer working with clients throughout Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

In his 17+ year career since 2007 Alex has closed over 2,500 loans and has ranked within the top 200 of loan officers in the nation since 2015 (by business volume). Alex is also ranked in the top 10 of loan officers in DC (by business volume) and has received recognition annually by various publications including the Washingtonian which recognizes top loan officers based on reviews by Realtors. Alex prides himself on the highest level of service possible and you can read several client reviews here: https://lendaid.com/officers/alexander-m-jaffe-4

Alex is proud of his reputation in the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) real estate community, as most clients come to him by way of past client recommendations or Realtor recommendations. Alex teaches the Advanced Real Estate Finance class for the Greater Capital Area Realtors Association (having taught it more than a dozen times) as well as hundreds of first-time home buyer classes. Alex was awarded the Key to the City from the DC Housing Finance Agency for closing the very first DC Open Doors loan in 2013, and in 2023 he was awarded the Legends Award for closing the most DC Open Doors loans in the past decade (250-300 and counting).

As a manager, Alex oversees his team and the workflow (the people who work on his clients’ loans) and supports the 15+ loan officers in the Chevy Chase branch. Alex is writer of and actively maintains his website https://alexjaffe.com which has a directory of helpful information to both first-time and repeat home buyers, including detailed descriptions on loan programs offered by First Home and local government.

Alex prides himself on getting everything right, every single time. Communication and education are what Alex is known for. For first-time homebuyers, Alex happily spends extra time making sure his clients fully understand the home buying process and their loan.

Alex’s depth of experience and knowledge allows him to offer a wide variety of loan programs in an expert way, including conventional conforming and non-conforming, FHA, VA, jumbo, USDA, renovation & construction loans, and more.  ~30% of Alex’s business is condominiums or co-ops, and Alex focuses on expertise on the underwriting of these more complex transactions. Learn more https://alexjaffe.com/loan-programs.

Alex cares deeply about home affordability and has advocated over his career for those who need support the most (learn more https://alexjaffe.com/improve-hpap & https://alexjaffe.com/testimony).

Alex is a past President of the DC Alumni Club for the University of Michigan, which has ~20,000 members. Alex lives in Washington, DC with his wife Jackie and sons Louie, Cole, and Moe. Alex enjoys spending most of his free time with his kids. In addition to sports and games with them, he also enjoys hiking, spending time in, on and around the Chesapeake Bay, spinning, supporting the University of Michigan, and cooking, baking, and barbequing.