Diamond Residential’s Jan Leasure scores IMBA’s 2026 Best in Biz honor

With more than 2,500 loans closed and thousands of new homeowners minted over the last 30+ years, mortgage banker Jan Leasure’s numbers are impressive.Also impressive? The figures 80 and 77 — the average number of hours a week she still invests in her craft, and her perpetually youthful number of trips around the sun, respectively.It is her heart, however, that really steals the show. Just ask her processor and loan officer assistant, Daniela Goris-Gomez, who wrote the compelling nomination letter that helped Leasure, division president at Diamond Residential in Libertyville, clinch this year’s Best Mortgage Loan Officer/Best in Biz award from the Illinois Mortgage Bankers Association.“Jan does not see borrowers as loan numbers, units or another transaction toward her production totals. She sees people,” Goris-Gomez wrote. “She learns their stories. She understands their struggles. She celebrates their victories, worries about their challenges and becomes genuinely invested in helping