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Embrace Home Loans review: approval odds, rates and grade (2025)

Embrace Home Loans earns an A, placing it in the top fifth of mid-size mortgage lenders. It turned down 6.0% of the applications it decided on in 2025, which ranks in the 66th percentile for approval odds. Its median loan was priced 0.19 points above the average prime offer rate, ranking in the 64th percentile on pricing. Compared against 581 mid-size mortgage lenders using 2025 HMDA filings.

6.0kApplications2025
75.2%Originatedof applications
6.0%Decision denial ratenational 22.6%
6.50%Median ratenational 6.63%
$2.0BLoan volume41 states

Embrace Home Loans at a glance, 2025

Every figure is from the lender's own HMDA filing. "vs national" compares with all lenders combined.

5.2%Denial rate (all applications)-12.82 pts vs national
6.0%Denial rate (decided applications)-16.57 pts vs national
75.2%Origination rate+17.19 pts vs national
10.1%Withdrawn by applicant
4.3%Closed for incompleteness
6.50%Median interest rate-0.13 pts vs national
0.19Median rate spread (pts over APOR)-0.07 pts vs national
$385,000Median loan amount
$7,121Median total loan costs
$133kMedian applicant income
84%Median loan-to-value
0High-cost (HOEPA) loans

How the A grade breaks down

Each component is a percentile rank among 581 mid-size mortgage lenders. Higher is better. Components the lender does not report are left out and the weights redistributed.

Approval oddsdecision denial rate, weight 45%

66th6.0% denied

Pricingmedian rate spread over APOR, weight 30%

64th0.19 pts

Processwithdrawn + incomplete share, weight 15%

63rd14.4%

Closing coststotal loan costs ÷ loan amount, weight 10%

69th1.85% of loan

Trend, 2023–2025

YearApplicationsOriginatedDenial rateDecision denialMedian rateVolume
20238,2625,3259.7%12.1%6.49%$2.3B
20246,7174,7387.8%9.4%6.63%$2.2B
20255,9734,4935.2%6.0%6.50%$2.0B

What Embrace Home Loans lends

Applications by purpose and loan type in 2025, with the denial rate for each. A lender's mix explains a lot of its headline rate: HELOCs and FHA loans are denied far more often than conventional purchase loans.

By loan purpose

Home purchase 4,938 83% · 3.6% denied
Refinance 547 9% · 8.0% denied
Cash-out refinance 423 7% · 17.7% denied
Home improvement 31 1% · 9.7% denied
Other / HELOC 34 1% · 29.4% denied

By loan type

Conventional 4,015 67% · 4.0% denied
FHA 1,363 23% · 8.4% denied
VA 555 9% · 5.4% denied
USDA / RHS 40 1% · 12.5% denied

Also: 0 home-equity lines, 0 reverse mortgages, 96 manufactured homes, 363 investment properties.

Why Embrace Home Loans denies applications

Primary reason reported for each of the 308 denials in 2025. Lenders can cite up to four reasons; this is the first one listed.

Debt-to-income ratio 98 32%
Collateral 80 26%
Credit history 60 19%
Unverifiable information 22 7%
Insufficient cash 22 7%
Other 19 6%
Employment history 7 2%

How these reasons compare nationally →

Who gets approved at Embrace Home Loans

Decision denial rate by applicant profile. Groups with fewer than 20 applications are omitted.

Applicant incomeApplicationsOriginatedDecision denial rate
Under $50k36223219.4%
$50k – $100k1,5501,1618.3%
$100k – $150k1,4661,0995.6%
$150k – $250k1,4181,1083.4%
Over $250k1,0968332.2%
Applicant ageApplicationsOriginatedDecision denial rate
Under 252562005.1%
25–341,6361,3153.7%
35–441,5961,2155.0%
45–541,1398188.2%
55–647795418.2%
65–744333098.8%
Over 741349510.5%

Where Embrace Home Loans lends

41 states and 451 counties in 2025. Click a state for the lender's full record there.

StateApplicationsOriginatedDenial rateMedian rateRank in state
Maryland1,1708566.3%6.63%#47
Florida8186275.5%6.49%#176
Virginia7615823.3%6.31%#93
New Jersey7305992.6%6.50%#89
New York3772694.8%6.50%#157
Massachusetts3352574.5%6.50%#110
Alabama3142566.7%6.63%#119
Delaware2822155.7%6.63%#42
Pennsylvania1861494.8%6.63%#286
New Hampshire1741331.7%6.63%#61
Rhode Island1531069.8%6.63%#59
Maine106779.4%6.50%#89
District of Columbia92544.4%6.38%#50
Tennessee89685.6%6.50%#338
West Virginia62503.2%6.49%#121
Connecticut50386.0%6.75%#218
North Carolina41317.3%6.49%#426
Texas39217.7%6.88%#750
Georgia361413.9%6.31%#495
California28133.6%6.75%#602
South Carolina18140.0%6.88%#462
Indiana1290.0%6.75%#522
Illinois1179.1%6.75%#672
Mississippi11818.2%6.69%#282
Ohio940.0%6.56%#625
Colorado840.0%6.63%#549
Arkansas7228.6%6.63%#375
Michigan750.0%6.88%#560
Arizona640.0%6.50%#577
Louisiana6050.0%#415
Oregon630.0%6.50%#412
Minnesota550.0%6.49%#550
New Mexico530.0%6.63%#305

Frequently asked questions

Embrace Home Loans denied 6.0% of the applications it decided on in 2025. The national figure across all lenders was 22.6%. On approval odds it ranks in the 66th percentile of mid-size mortgage lenders.

The most common reason Embrace Home Loans gave in 2025 was "debt-to-income ratio", cited on 31.8% of its denials. Lenders report up to four reasons per denial to the CFPB; the full breakdown is on this page.

The median interest rate on loans Embrace Home Loans originated in 2025 was 6.50%, and its median rate spread over the average prime offer rate was 0.19 points. Rates on this page are what borrowers actually got, not advertised rates.

In 2025, 83% of its applications were for home purchases, 16% for refinancing (including cash-out), and 1% for home improvement or other purposes. By loan type: 67% conventional, 23% FHA, 9% VA.

Every figure on this page comes from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Loan/Application Register published by the CFPB, which lenders are required by federal law to file. We add the grade and the comparisons; we do not add facts.

About this data. HMDA data is published once a year by the CFPB. The current release covers applications acted on in calendar year 2025. Figures describe applications the lender acted on, including loans it later sold. Interest rates and costs are medians on originated loans only; some depository institutions are exempt from reporting pricing fields, which is why a few cells read "—". MortgageGrades is not affiliated with Embrace Home Loans. Data sources · Methodology