Is Cornerstone Mortgage Providers An Expensive Mortgage Lender?

We compare mortgage interest rate and loan related closing costs at Cornerstone Mortgage Providers with other lenders for mortgages with similar borrower characteristics:

Interest Rate: similar to average (-0.02%)
Loan Related Closing Costs: higher than average (+$2010)
Assessment: this lender tends to be a expensive lender.

This scoreboard is based on data reported to FFIEC. In the data, Cornerstone Mortgage Providers originated 111 mortgages, a national market share of 0.0%. It was primarily active in TX, with a 0.0% market share.

On average, Cornerstone Mortgage Providers’s interest rates were similar to those of comparable mortgages at other lenders (-0.02%).1The comparable mortgages control for Cornerstone Mortgage Providers’s distribution of loan term (e.g. 30 year vs 15 year), loan-to-value (LTV), debt-to-income (DTI), loan amount, loan program (e.g. Conforming/FHA), loan purpose (e.g. purchase/refinance), and county. Interest rate and loan related closing costs are estimated based on fixed rate mortgages only, whereas market shares include all purchase or refinance mortgages. Its average total loan related closing cost was $7587, which was higher than those of comparable mortgages at $5577, with a difference of +$2010. Overall, we estimate that Cornerstone Mortgage Providers tends to be an expensive lender, with a cost-adjusted-rate difference of +0.09% compared to comparable mortgages at other lenders.2Cost adjusted rates were computed based on each percent of the loan amount in loan related closing costs being worth 1/6 of a percentage point in interest rate. Therefore, we recommend comparing your rate and fees with at least a few other lenders before signing with Cornerstone Mortgage Providers.

Cornerstone Mortgage Providers originated Conforming mortgages for new home purchases. We breakdown its interest rate and total loan related closing cost on by each of the mortgage types it originated below:

Home Purchase Mortgages from Cornerstone Mortgage Providers compared to other lenders

Conforming
Interest Rate Difference-0.02%
Loan related Closing Cost Difference+$2010
Cost Adjusted Rate Difference+0.09%

Based on the table above, Cornerstone Mortgage Providers is more expensive than other lenders for Conforming purchase mortgages.

Other information about Cornerstone Mortgage Providers:

Regulator: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 
Registered city and state: FORT COLLINS, CO, 80528

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Footnotes
1The comparable mortgages control for Cornerstone Mortgage Providers’s distribution of loan term (e.g. 30 year vs 15 year), loan-to-value (LTV), debt-to-income (DTI), loan amount, loan program (e.g. Conforming/FHA), loan purpose (e.g. purchase/refinance), and county. Interest rate and loan related closing costs are estimated based on fixed rate mortgages only, whereas market shares include all purchase or refinance mortgages.
2Cost adjusted rates were computed based on each percent of the loan amount in loan related closing costs being worth 1/6 of a percentage point in interest rate.