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FHA denial rates in Utah: 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 Utah, the highest FHA denial rates among major lenders in 2025 belonged to Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC (48.1%), Rocket Mortgage (31.4%), Kind Lending, LLC (26.2%).Utah’s FHA denial rate in 2025 was 15.2% across 14,689 decisioned applications — ranking #51 of 52 states. Among high-volume lenders, the lowest observed denial rate was Intercap Lending Inc at 1.6%; the highest was Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC at 48.1%. The institutional spread inside Utah is 30.1×: the same FHA application faces a 1.6% observed denial rate at one high-volume door and 48.1% 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 Utah

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

LenderUtah FHA appsDenial rate
Intercap Lending Inc9201.6%
Ranlife, Inc.3372.1%
Guild Mortgage Company1,0682.6%
First Colony Mortgage Corporat7103.4%
Securitynational Mortgage Compan6496.6%
Plains Commerce Bank3887.2%
The Loan Store, Inc2657.2%
Freedom Mortgage Corporation40615.5%
United Wholesale Mortgage1,83016.0%
Dhi Mortgage Company, Ltd.43117.2%
Pennymac Loan Services LLC29419.4%
Mountain America Federal Credit 24224.0%
Kind Lending, LLC70526.2%
Rocket Mortgage73831.4%
Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC31448.1%

The small-loan penalty in Utah

Applications under $150K were denied 37.5% of the time versus 13.8% for loans of $250K+ — a 2.7× 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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