HomeStreet, Inc. (NASDAQ:HMST) or ("HomeStreet" or the "Company"), the parent company of HomeStreet Bank (the "Bank"), commented today on a public letter from Dwight Capital to our Board of Directors (the "Board") conveying an unsolicited preliminary, non-binding offer to acquire our Fannie Mae DUS⁽¹⁾ multifamily origination and servicing business.

Speaking on behalf of the Board, Donald R. Voss, Lead Independent Director said, "After careful review and consistent with our fiduciary duties under applicable law, the Board of Directors and management, together with outside advisors, have thoroughly evaluated Dwight Capital's preliminary offer. The estimated net proceeds of Dwight Capital's offer do not represent a compelling premium to the ongoing earnings that the Fannie Mae DUS business generates for the Company. Our participation in the Fannie Mae DUS business is long-standing, starting since the DUS program's inception by Fannie Mae. This business is a highly integrated and important component of our overall commercial real estate business and generates a high risk-adjusted return that significantly exceeds our cost of capital. Thus, we have concluded that a sale of our Fannie Mae DUS business is not in the Company's or its shareholders' best interest at this time."

HomeStreet, Inc. (NASDAQ:HMST) is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, serving consumers and businesses in the Western United States and Hawaii through its various operating subsidiaries. The Company's primary business following the completion of these transactions will be community banking, including: commercial real estate lending, commercial lending, residential construction lending, single family residential lending for portfolio, retail banking, private banking, investment, and insurance services. Its principal subsidiaries are HomeStreet Bank and HomeStreet Capital Corporation. Certain information about our business can be found on our investor relations web site, located at http://ir.homestreet.com.

The Company has filed a definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A and accompanying WHITE proxy card with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") in connection with the solicitation of proxies for its 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. SHAREHOLDERS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO READ THE COMPANY'S DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Shareholders may obtain a free copy of the proxy statement and accompanying WHITE proxy card, any amendments or supplements to the proxy statement and other documents that the Company files with the SEC from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or the Company's website at http://ir.homestreet.com as soon as reasonably practicable after such materials are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.

This release, as well as other information provided from time to time by the Company or its employees, may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements give the Company's current beliefs, expectations and intentions regarding future events. You can identify forward-looking statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. These statements may include words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "potential," "should," "will" and "would" and similar expressions (including the negative of these terms). These forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond the Company's control) and assumptions. Although we believe that expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The Company intends these forward-looking statements to speak only at the time of this release and the Company does not undertake to update or revise these statements as more information becomes available, except as required under federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the SEC. Please refer to the risk factors discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018 and subsequent periodic and current reports filed with the SEC (each of which can be found at the SEC's website www.sec.gov), as well as other factors described from time to time in the Company's filings with the SEC. Any forward-looking statement made by the Company in this release speaks only as of the date on which it is made.