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Finance Of America Reverse LLC: FHA denial rate in 2025

Reverse-mortgage lender. Since the 26 July 2026 universe correction, reverse mortgages (HECM) are excluded from every FHA figure on this site, and this lender is not in the current top-100 FHA data files; the figures on this page predate that correction and are kept only for the record. See the corrections log.

Direct answer · updated 2026-07-19

Finance Of America Reverse LLC’s FHA denial rate in 2025 was 11.8%.

Finance Of America Reverse LLC denied 11.8% of its 7,008 decisioned FHA applications in 2025 — rank #56 of the 100 largest FHA lenders, below the national rate of 22.1%. 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 Finance Of America Reverse LLC says no

Top cited reasons on denied files in 2025: collateral (the property) (33.0%), other (26.7%), insufficient cash (19.7%) (shares of all cited reasons; a denied file may cite several). Reason codes record outcomes, not causes — context: the reason fingerprint.

Where Finance Of America Reverse LLC operates

StateFHA appsDenial rate
CA1,2638.7%
NY36212.4%

Largest state markets (cells n≥100). State pages: the door map.

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