Wisconsin’s FHA denial rate in 2025 was 26.3% across 12,288 decisioned applications — ranking #6 of 52 states. Among high-volume lenders, the lowest observed denial rate was First Colony Mortgage Corporat at 8.2%; the highest was Amerisave Mortgage Company at 78.4%. The institutional spread inside Wisconsin is 9.6×: the same FHA application faces a 8.2% observed denial rate at one high-volume door and 78.4% at another — two real endpoints of the federal record, same state, same program. Source: complete CFPB HMDA 2025 federal record.
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| Lender | Wisconsin FHA apps | Denial rate |
|---|---|---|
| First Colony Mortgage Corporat | 207 | 8.2% |
| Guild Mortgage Company | 500 | 9.4% |
| Crosscountry Mortgage, LLC | 239 | 9.6% |
| Fairway Independent Mort Corp | 405 | 11.1% |
| Freedom Mortgage Corporation | 533 | 22.9% |
| Pennymac Loan Services LLC | 536 | 25.0% |
| United Wholesale Mortgage | 798 | 25.7% |
| Rocket Mortgage | 1,495 | 31.6% |
| New American Funding, LLC. | 322 | 34.8% |
| Loandepot.Com LLC | 376 | 41.5% |
| Mutual Of Omaha Mortgage | 235 | 44.7% |
| Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC | 251 | 50.6% |
| Newrez LLC | 267 | 52.8% |
| Carrington Mortgage Services LLC | 217 | 53.0% |
| Amerisave Mortgage Company | 334 | 78.4% |
Applications under $150K were denied 43.8% of the time versus 19.8% for loans of $250K+ — a 2.2× penalty on the smallest loans. National context: the small-loan penalty.
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.
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