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Luminate Bank: FHA denial rate in 2025

Direct answer · updated 2026-07-19

Luminate Bank’s FHA denial rate in 2025 was 7.3%.

Luminate Bank denied 7.3% of its 2,009 decisioned FHA applications in 2025 — rank #75 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 Luminate Bank says no

Top cited reasons on denied files in 2025: credit history (35.3%), debt-to-income (32.7%), collateral (the property) (12.4%) (shares of all cited reasons; a denied file may cite several). Reason codes record outcomes, not causes — context: the reason fingerprint.

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