WestStar Mortgage Inc. (WestStar) is a privately held residential mortgage banking company with headquarters in the Washington, DC metropolitan suburb of Woodbridge, VA. It specializes in retail and wholesale lending, originating primarily FNMA, FHLMC and GNMA loans to be sold on a servicing released basis. WestStar is structured as a Sub-Chapter S Corporation. There are two principal owners currently, both of whom are active in the business. The firm was chartered on June 19, 2000 as the result of the consolidation of an existing mortgage brokerage joining together with an experienced leadership team coming from a large independent mortgage lender. As of April 2008, WestStar employed approximately 430 people located in its main corporate offices and in 70 Branch Offices.