A Maryland homeowner has hauled Fairway Independent Mortgage into federal court, accusing the lender of hiding Wells Fargo’s role in a 2021 loan.
In a lawsuit filed on December 11, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Baltimore homeowner Nadia Brown-Hyatt alleges that Fairway misrepresented itself as her mortgage lender while Wells Fargo Bank, described as the “Funding Source/Warehouse Bank,” actually supplied the money for her loan. The case is captioned Nadia Brown-Hyatt v. Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation, Case No. 1:25-cv-04071-JRR.
According to the filing, Brown-Hyatt obtained a mortgage in or about September 2021 to purchase a property at 3707 Liberty Heights Avenue in Baltimore. She says she signed a promissory note in the principal amount of $323,000, payable to Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation as “Lender,” and a deed of trust securing the note that also identified Fairway as the lender…