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Lender profile · HMDA 2025

First Option Mortgage, LLC: 2025 mortgage rates, costs & approvals

How First Option Mortgage, LLC priced and approved home loans in 2025, measured against every lender in the official HMDA records.

HMDA legal name: First Option Mortgage, LLC · LEI 549300PFJ7GCGDLB2E65

In 2025, First Option Mortgage, LLC originated 1,213 home-purchase, refinance and cash-out loans on owner-occupied single-family homes in 27 states — 387th by volume among the 2,017 lenders profiled here.

On conventional 30-year fixed purchase loans its median rate was 6.875% (all lenders: 6.625%); its median rate spread was 51 basis points above the national median. Median conventional loan costs were $7,640, 37% higher than the national median ($5,570).

It denied 4.2% of completed home-purchase applications (all lenders: 8.5%).

Loans
1,213
of 1,414 applications
Denial rate
4.2%
Purchase · all 8.5%
30-yr fixed rate
6.875%
Conv. · all 6.625%
Loan costs
$7,640
Conv. · all $5,570
Loan amount
$305,000
Purchase · all $335,000
Borrower income
$96,000
Purchase · all $116,000

How First Option Mortgage, LLC priced home-purchase loans

Purchase loans, 2025First Option Mortgage, LLCAll lenders
30-year fixed rate · conventional6.875%6.625%
30-year fixed rate · FHA6.500%6.250%
30-year fixed rate · VA6.625%6.125%
15-year fixed rate · conventional—5.875%
Rate spread vs. APOR · conventional+0.64 pts+0.13 pts
Total loan costs · conventional$7,640$5,570
Total loan costs · FHA$12,020$11,310
Total loan costs · VA$5,160$6,490
Origination charges (all types)$3,800$1,860
Borrowers paying discount points78.6%51.3%
Points paid, when paid (% of loan)1.00%0.87%
Borrowers receiving lender credits32.7%33.1%

Medians shown with at least 20 loans. A lender's numbers reflect its borrowers (credit, down payment, loan size, location) as well as its pricing; HMDA has no credit scores. Rate spread = APR minus the average prime offer rate on the lock date, which removes most of the effect of when the rate was locked.

Loan mix and borrowers

By loan type

Conventional 58.0% 704
FHA 36.9% 447
VA 4.0% 49
USDA 1.1% 13

By purpose

Home purchase 88.0% 1,068
Refinance 6.6% 80
Cash-out refinance 5.4% 65
Home value
$335,000
Median, purchase loans
Down payment
5%
All lenders 10%
Refi rate
6.875%
30-yr fixed, conventional
Refi denial rate
2.2%
Cash-out 4.8%

Why First Option Mortgage, LLC denied purchase applications

Collateral (appraisal/property) 26.9% 14
Unverifiable information 25.0% 13
Debt-to-income ratio 23.1% 12
Credit history 13.5% 7
Employment history 7.7% 4
Credit application incomplete 3.8% 2

First reason the lender reported for each denied home-purchase application.

Where First Option Mortgage, LLC lends

StateLoansApplicationsPurchase denial rate30-yr rate*Loan costs*
Georgia5366063.6%6.875%$8,130
Texas2252816.0%6.875%$8,110
Indiana1521732.7%6.875%$4,890
Florida71846.7%6.625%$9,110
Louisiana56681.6%6.875%$6,170
Nevada48540.0%6.875%$11,910
Maryland38442.9%——
Missouri1920———
Virginia182415.0%——
South Carolina910———
Tennessee810———
Pennsylvania46———
Alabama44———
Illinois44———
Ohio44———
West Virginia35———
District of Columbia33———
North Carolina24———
Wisconsin22———
Arizona11———
California11———
Colorado11———
Massachusetts11———
Michigan11———
Mississippi11———
Oklahoma11———
Kentucky01———

*Conventional home-purchase loans, medians with at least 20 loans. Linked state names open First Option Mortgage, LLC's page for that state.

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This is a statistical profile, not a review or recommendation. HMDA data alone cannot show whether a lender complies with fair-lending laws, and a lender's medians depend on the borrowers it serves.

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Source: FFIEC/CFPB HMDA 2025 public LAR and filer list. Core segment: owner-occupied, single-family site-built, first-lien, closed-end purchase and refinance loans. Methodology