CU Home Mortgage Solutions Interest Rate and Cost Review

Is CU Home Mortgage Solutions a cheap or expensive mortgage lender? To help you shop for a mortgage, we compare the interest rates and closing costs charged by CU Home Mortgage Solutions to those of other lenders for a comparable set of borrowers. Here is our review of CU Home Mortgage Solutions nationally:

Review ItemCU Home Mortgage Solutions
Interest Ratesimilar to other lenders (-0.04%)
Loan Related Closing Costssimilar to other lenders (+$19)
National Rate and Closing Cost Star Rating(3.5)

On average, CU Home Mortgage Solutions’s interest rates were similar to those of other lenders (-0.04%). Its loan related closing costs were also similar to those of other lenders, with a difference of +$19. Overall, combining interest rates and closing costs we estimate that CU Home Mortgage Solutions tends to be an average cost lender, and give it a National Rate and Closing Costs Rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars.

We maintain our independence by not accepting any money from the mortgage lenders we review. To visit CU Home Mortgage Solutions, check out its website at: http://www.cuhms.com.

CU Home Mortgage Solutions’s Rate Review by City

Mortgage lenders often set different rates in different geographical markets. For our list of the top mortgage lenders by city, click here. In particular, among the cities we track CU Home Mortgage Solutions was most active in:

  1. Seattle, WA
  2. Lacey, WA
  3. Bremerton, WA
  4. Longview, WA
  5. Portland, OR

CU Home Mortgage Solutions’s Rate Review by Mortgage Type

Mortgage lenders also tend to charge different interest rates and closing costs depending on the type of mortgage. In our data, CU Home Mortgage Solutions originated Conforming, FHA and VA mortgages for new home purchases. It also originated Conforming, Jumbo and VA mortgages for refinances. Its average interest rate and total loan related closing cost difference relative to other lenders for comparable borrowers by mortgages type is as follows.

Purchase/Refinance:
New Purchase MortgagesConformingFHAVA
Interest Rate Difference-0.01%-0.02%-0.02%
Loan Related Closing Cost Difference+$355-$63-$38
Cost Adjusted Rate Difference-0.00%-0.02%-0.02%
National Star Rating(3.5)(3.5)(3.5)
Refinance MortgagesConformingJumboVA
Interest Rate Difference-0.05%-0.01%-0.00%
Loan Related Closing Cost Difference-$135+$28-$87
Cost Adjusted Rate Difference-0.06%-0.01%-0.01%
Average Star Rating(4)(3.5)(3.5)

As a summary, CU Home Mortgage Solutions is similar to other lenders for Conforming, FHA and VA purchase mortgages. For refinancing mortgages, CU Home Mortgage Solutions is cheap for Conforming mortgage refinance. It is similar to other lenders for Jumbo and VA mortgage refinance. Nevertheless, individual circumstances can matter a lot for mortgage rates, and we always recommend shopping among several of our top mortgage lenders in your area before signing.

Other information about CU Home Mortgage Solutions:

Registered name: CU Home Mortgage Solutions
Registered city and state: SEATTLE, WA, 98175
Regulator: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

* Source of the data is Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) and is for mortgages originated in the past year. Our comparable mortgages analysis controls for CU Home Mortgage Solutions’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 commuting zone. Cost adjusted rates were computed based on each percent of the loan amount in above average loan related closing costs being worth +0.15 of a percentage point in interest rate. Furthermore, the amounts are regularized using a Bayesian approach to control for small samples.