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Better Mortgage Corporation: FHA denial rate in 2025

Direct answer · updated 2026-07-19

Better Mortgage Corporation denied 49.4% of its 2,354 decisioned FHA applications in 2025 — rank #6 of the 100 largest FHA lenders, above the national rate of 21.7%. Source: complete CFPB HMDA 2025 federal record. Observed rates reflect applicant mix and channel as well as underwriting — not an endorsement or a warning.

Why Better Mortgage Corporation says no

Top cited reasons on denied files in 2025: incomplete application (30.4%), credit history (23.0%), debt-to-income (21.0%) (shares of all cited reasons; a denied file may cite several). Reason codes record outcomes, not causes — context: the reason fingerprint.

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