Flagstar Sells Northeast-Based Commercial Loans to CIT for ~$779M

Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. FBC, (the "Company"), the holding company for Flagstar Bank, FSB (the "Bank"), today announced that, effective December 31, 2012, the Bank entered into a definitive Transaction Purchase and Sale Agreement (the "Agreement") under which a wholly-owned subsidiary of CIT Bank, the U.S. commercial bank subsidiary of  CIT Group Inc. CIT ("CIT"), will acquire a substantial portion of Flagstar's Northeast-based commercial loan portfolio.   Under the terms of the Agreement, CIT will acquire $1.264 billion in commercial loan commitments, $785 million of which is currently outstanding.  The loans sold consist primarily of asset-based loans, equipment leases and commercial real estate loans.  Flagstar expects that the total purchase price will be approximately $779 million and that a vast majority of the assets will be sold during the first quarter of 2013.  The sale is expected to be capital accretive to the Bank.