Lenders, particularly subprime ones, are closing up shop in droves these days.  Here are a few:

• E-loan announced it will close their sub prime wholesale division
• ResMAE listed for sale
• Wachovia Corp.'s consolidation of its wholesale operations will result in layoffs
• Fieldstone announced that it's closing 5 west coast branches including its Arizona operations.
• Mortgage Lender Network (MLN) "stopped funding residential loans" on 12/29 (they didn't actually say they were closing).
• HMIC closed its doors on Dec 20. As part of a $100 million cost reduction strategy, Sovereign Bancorp exited the wholesale mortgage market.
• Own it Mortgage - closed its doors
• Sebring Mortgage closed its doors
• Axis Mortgage closed its doors
• Oak Street Mortgage closed its doors
• Right Away Mortgage closed its doors
• Secured Funding closed its doors
• Loans 123 - Not taking any more business
• Aegis Funding (sub-prime) closed its doors (Aegis Wholesale (Conforming and Alt-A) and Home Equity are still open)
• Option One - Up for Sale
• Meritage Sold to Lime Financial
• Mandalay - Closed it Doors yesterday
• Southstar - AE's leaving (a good source stating company cannot meet payroll obligations)
• Accredited - OC Regional office production at its lowest levels, rumors they may close by 1st qtr.
• Countrywide - Multiple layoffs
• Washington Mutual - Continued layoffs
• Saxon - Layoffs
• RFC - Layoffs
• Decision One closed 6 regional centers.
• Argent consolidated and let 1,000 people go.Currently for Sale Ameriquest laid off 3,800 and shut 229 retail branches after announcing a $325 million settlement with state's attorneys general for overcharging borrowers.
• Bank of American Mortgage laid off 225 locally.
• Fieldstone Mortgage closed their Las Vegas branch.
• Acoustic Home Loans closed its doors due to a sudden increase in repurchases.
• WAMU exited their correspondent business, and are laying off again.
• LoanCity just closed 7 offices nationwide.