By Ziya Y. · 23 Years Banking · FRC Denial Code Intelligence
DTI too high — your income doesn't support the requested loan payment.
Compare your DTI against FHA's 57% and conventional's 50% limit. Many lenders cap at 43-45% (overlay). If you're between 45-57%, an FHA lender following agency minimums may approve you.
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Prices and rates are widely reported. Whether a lender says yes is not. In the complete 2025 federal record, denial rates across the 100 largest FHA lenders ran from 1.8% to 78.7% — same programme, same year.
And it is not simply who applies where: standardizing on state, loan amount, income, debt-to-income and loan-to-value, applicant mix explains only a 2.7× range in expected outcomes.
CFPB HMDA 2025, computed by FinanceRateCalc. Covers the highest-volume lenders published per market, not all lenders. Historical observations, not predictions. CC BY 4.0, not independently reproduced.