Is Phh Home Loans An Expensive Mortgage Lender?

We compare mortgage interest rate and loan related closing costs at Phh Home Loans with other lenders for mortgages with similar borrower characteristics:

Interest Rate: lower than average (-0.50%)
Loan Related Closing Costs: lower than average (-$1542)
Assessment: this lender tends to be a cheap lender.

This scoreboard is based on data reported to FFIEC. In the data, Phh Home Loans originated 115 mortgages, a national market share of 0.0%. It was most active in CT (0.0% market share), NJ (0.0% market share), and NH (0.0% market share).

On average, Phh Home Loans’s interest rates were lower than those of comparable mortgages at other lenders (-0.50%).1The comparable mortgages control for Phh Home Loans’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 $2706, which was lower than those of comparable mortgages at $4248, with a difference of -$1542. Overall, we estimate that Phh Home Loans tends to be an cheap lender, with a cost-adjusted-rate difference of -0.62% 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. Nevertheless, we recommend comparing your rate and fees with at least a few other lenders before signing with Phh Home Loans.

Phh Home Loans 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 Phh Home Loans compared to other lenders

Conforming
Interest Rate Difference-0.50%
Loan related Closing Cost Difference-$1542
Cost Adjusted Rate Difference-0.62%

Based on the table above, Phh Home Loans is cheap for Conforming purchase mortgages.

Other information about Phh Home Loans:

Regulator: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 
Registered city and state: MT LAUREL, NJ, 08054

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Footnotes

Footnotes
1The comparable mortgages control for Phh Home Loans’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.