FRC Intelligence · 2025 federal record

Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley, CA: 23.4% of FHA applications were denied in 2025.

Of 3,112 FHA applications reaching a credit decision in this metro in 2025, 727 were formally denied.

The doors of Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley, CA

The metro's highest-volume FHA lenders, by observed 2025 denial rate — a 54.6-point spread inside one metro:

Lender	Decisioned apps (this metro)	Denial rate
CROSSCOUNTRY MORTGAGE, LLC	100	3.0%
NEW AMERICAN FUNDING, LLC.	100	16.0%
United Wholesale Mortgage	517	27.5%
ROCKET MORTGAGE	313	27.8%
Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC	132	57.6%

What to do with this

A metro average is a tendency, not a rule — and the table above shows why: the same city contains very different doors. If you've been denied, decode the reason first, then pick the next door on the record, not on advertising.

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Source: CFPB HMDA 2025 (loan_type 2; decisioned = actions 1,2,3; denial = action 3), processed by FinanceRateCalc. Metro = HMDA derived MSA/MD; name per Census/OMB July 2023 delineation. Lender rows require ≥100 decisioned applications in this metro. Denial rates partly reflect applicant mix; historical observation, not advice; no individual outcome predicted. Free · no ads · no lender pays us · CC BY 4.0.