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FHA denial rates in Massachusetts: every major lender, ranked (2025)

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Figures on this page were re-read from the data files on 2026-10-01; an earlier version carried values from before the 26 July 2026 universe correction (reverse mortgages removed). Corrections log.

Direct answer · updated 2026-07-19

In Massachusetts, the highest FHA denial rates among major lenders in 2025 belonged to Amerisave Mortgage Company (73.4%), Newrez LLC (61.0%), Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC (46.4%).Massachusetts’s FHA denial rate in 2025 was 22.9% across 12,621 decisioned applications — ranking #25 of 52 states. Among high-volume lenders, the lowest observed denial rate was Total Mortgage Services, LLC at 6.9%; the highest was Amerisave Mortgage Company at 73.4%. The institutional spread inside Massachusetts is 10.6×: the same FHA application faces a 6.9% observed denial rate at one high-volume door and 73.4% at another — two real endpoints of the federal record, same state, same program. Source: complete CFPB HMDA 2025 federal record.

Every high-volume FHA lender in Massachusetts

Cells require 100+ decisioned applications. Sorted softest first. Observed rates — not endorsements.

LenderMassachusetts FHA appsDenial rate
Total Mortgage Services, LLC3496.9%
Crosscountry Mortgage, LLC4697.9%
Guild Mortgage Company4758.2%
Cmg Mortgage Inc47910.4%
Guaranteed Rate, Inc.50114.2%
United Wholesale Mortgage1,44320.0%
Freedom Mortgage Corporation68920.3%
Pennymac Loan Services LLC40425.7%
Loandepot.Com LLC45326.4%
Rocket Mortgage95327.7%
Mutual Of Omaha Mortgage37828.6%
New American Funding, LLC.43728.8%
Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC42546.4%
Newrez LLC41361.0%
Amerisave Mortgage Company28973.4%

The small-loan penalty in Massachusetts

Applications under $150K were denied 52.8% of the time versus 20.3% for loans of $250K+ — a 2.6× penalty on the smallest loans. National context: the small-loan penalty.

What is HMDA?

The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requires every U.S. mortgage lender to report every application — outcome, amount, and denial reason — to federal regulators annually. It is government-verified, covers all lenders equally, and cannot be gamed. These tables are processed directly from that record.

Who pays for this?

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Reading note: lender-level denial rates describe tendencies in the observed record, not rules — individual outcomes vary with each file. Rankings can also shift with denominator choices (which application outcomes are counted); FRC's rule is published in full in the methodology, so every figure here is reproducible from the raw federal file.

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