Name of the lender

First Ohio Home FinanceMortgage rates, total loan costs and denial rate, 2025

HMDA year2025

Years filed2018 to 2025

Head office: Westerville, OH
Reporting agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
Earlier names on its filings: First Ohio Home Finance Inc

Figures by state (CSV)

First Ohio Home Finance reported 819 mortgage applications in the HMDA data of 2025.

It originated 608 loans in 2025, for $129 million in total.

The median interest rate of its loans in 2025 was 6.750%, and the national median was 6.375%.

This page shows no median total loan costs, because fewer than 20 loans report the amount.

It denied 0.7% of the applications that it decided in 2025, and the national denial rate was 22.6%.

Filed figures of First Ohio Home Finance, 2025
Figure	This lender	United States
Applications	819Under 0.1% of the US total	11,766,671
Loans originated	608$129 million	6,827,891
Median interest rate	6.750%	6.375%
Median total loan costs	n/a	$6,413
Denial rate	0.7%	22.6%

HMDA data are generally not used alone to determine whether a lender is complying with fair lending laws. The data do not include some legitimate credit risk considerations for loan approval and loan pricing decisions.
The words of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Source: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Summary of 2023 Data on Mortgage Lending (11 July 2024), copied on 2 Oct 2026. The figures on this page are from the HMDA data of 2025, the snapshot dataset.

Since the last update

No change on record

No tracked figure of this lender has changed since this site started its record. The record compares each update of the HMDA data with the update before it. The record of updates.

PricingMedians of 2025 loans

Interest rate and total loan costs of First Ohio Home Finance by loan type, 2025Medians. Each value has the national median of the same loan type under it.
Loan type	Loans in the medians	Interest rate	Total loan costs	Rate spread, points
All loans	608	6.750%US 6.375%	n/aUS $6,413	0.006US 0.161
Conventional	447	6.875%US 6.500%	n/aUS $5,393	0.006US 0.175
FHA-insured	132	6.625%US 6.250%	n/aUS $11,084	0.009US 0.432

Interest rate and total loan costs of First Ohio Home Finance by loan purpose, 2025Medians, with the national median under each value.
Loan purpose	Loans in the medians	Interest rate	Total loan costs	Rate spread, points
Home purchase	506	6.750%US 6.500%	n/aUS $6,632	0.006US 0.169
Refinancing	36	6.625%US 5.999%	n/aUS $4,883	0.005US −0.069
Cash-out refinancing	66	7.375%US 6.500%	n/aUS $8,095	0.009US 0.376

Parts of the total loan costs of First Ohio Home Finance by loan type, 2025Medians, with the national median under each value.
Loan type	Origination charges	Discount points, of the loans with points	Lender credits, of the loans with credits
All loans	$0US $2,062	n/aUS $2,823	n/aUS $567
Conventional	$0US $1,981	n/aUS $2,588	n/aUS $604
FHA-insured	$0US $2,831	n/aUS $3,270	n/aUS $567

The median rate spread of these loans was 0.006 percentage points above the average prime offer rate (APOR). On a loan of $300,000, that is about $18 more a year, or $2 more a month. The national median spread was 0.161 points.

The dollar amount is a simple interest approximation: the rate spread times the full loan amount for one year. The balance of a loan decreases with each payment, and an APR includes some fees, so the amount for a real loan is different. What a rate spread is.

Median interest rate by year: First Ohio Home Finance and the United States

First Ohio Home FinanceUnited States

Action takenHMDA codes and labels

Records of First Ohio Home Finance by the action taken, 2025
Action taken	Records	Share of records	US share
1Loan originated	608	74.2%	50.4%
2Application approved but not accepted	0	0.0%	3.1%
3Application denied	4	0.5%	15.6%
4Application withdrawn by applicant	207	25.3%	12.6%
5File closed for incompleteness	0	0.0%	5.1%
6Purchased loan	0	0.0%	11.7%
7Preapproval request denied	0	0.0%	0.4%
8Preapproval request approved but not accepted	0	0.0%	1.1%

The denial rate is code 3 divided by codes 1, 2 and 3: the applications that the lender decided. Codes 4 and 5 are applications with no decision. Code 6 is a loan that the lender bought.

Denial reasonsFirst reason coded

The lender has fewer than 25 denials in 2025, so this page shows no reasons.

Loan types and purposesLoans of 2025

Applications of First Ohio Home Finance by loan type
Loan type	Applications	Loans originated	Denial rate
Conventional	615	447	0.7%US 23.4%
FHA-insured	169	132	0.8%US 21.8%
VA-guaranteed	15	12	n/aUS 16.2%
USDA Rural Housing Service or Farm Service Agency guaranteed	20	17	n/aUS 12.9%

Applications of First Ohio Home Finance by loan purpose
Loan purpose	Applications	Loans originated	Share of loans
Home purchase	682	506	83.2%
Home improvement	0	0	0.0%
Refinancing	47	36	5.9%
Cash-out refinancing	90	66	10.9%
Other purpose	0	0	0.0%

The denial rate of a loan type is the denied applications divided by the decided applications of that type. It is "n/a" under 25 decided applications.

States where it lends1 state with 25 applications or more

First Ohio Home Finance by state, 2025In order of the names. A state with 100 applications or more links to the lender's page for the state.
State	Applications	Loans originated	Median interest rate	Median total loan costs	Denial rate
Ohio	791	592	6.750%	n/a	0.7%

Counties of First Ohio Home Finance with 50 applications or more, 2025In order of the names. The list has the 4 counties with the most loans of the lender.
County	Applications	Loans originated	Amount	Denial rate
Cuyahoga County, OH	106	68	$9.8 million	0.0%
Franklin County, OH	171	121	$30.3 million	1.6%
Stark County, OH	55	42	$8.2 million	0.0%
Summit County, OH	69	56	$10.4 million	0.0%

Figures by yearHMDA 2022 to 2025

First Ohio Home Finance by HMDA year"n/a" shows a year with fewer than 25 applications, or a year that this site does not process.
Year	Applications	Loans originated	Median interest rate	Median total loan costs	Denial rate	Records filed
2025	819	608	6.750%	n/a	0.7%	819
2024	963	665	7.000%	n/a	0.6%	963
2023	927	666	7.000%	n/a	5.0%	927
2022	1,061	785	5.625%	$3,076	3.2%	1,061
2021	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1,814
2020	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2,001
2019	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1,120
2018	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	979

Records filed is the count on the lender's HMDA transmittal sheet. It includes purchased loans and requests for preapproval.

Denial rate by year: First Ohio Home Finance and the United States

First Ohio Home FinanceUnited States

VA lender statisticsLoans that VA guaranteed, by month

VA-guaranteed loans of FIRST OHIO HOME FINANCE, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026National figures from the Department of Veterans Affairs. VA counts a loan in the month of the guarantee.
Month	All	Purchase	Cash-out refinance	IRRRL
August 2026	2	2	0	0
July 2026	2	1	1	0
June 2026	4	3	0	1
May 2026	2	1	0	1
April 2026	3	3	0	0
March 2026	0	0	0	0
February 2026	1	1	0	0
January 2026	3	2	1	0
December 2025	0	0	0	0
November 2025	0	0	0	0
October 2025	2	2	0	0
September 2025	0	0	0	0

IRRRL is the VA Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan. The VA name of the lender is "FIRST OHIO HOME FINANCE". Every month.

Peer lenders12 lenders

These lenders originated a count of loans close to the count of this lender, in the same states. The site compares the applications of each lender by state. The list is not a ranking.

Cinfed Federal Credit UnionCincinnati, OH
Day Air Credit UnionKettering, OH
Fremont Federal Credit UnionFremont, OH
Kemba Credit UnionWest Chester, OH
LCNB National BankLebanon, OH
Main Street Bank CorpWooster, OH
Mechanics BankMansfield, OH
Sun Federal Credit UnionMaumee, OH
Telhio Credit Union, Inc.Columbus, OH
The Equitable Mortgage CorporationDublin, OH
Union Capital Mortgage CorpWestlake, OH
Vinton County National BankMcarthur, OH

Official channelsLinks checked 2 Oct 2026

HMDA Data Browser (FFIEC and CFPB)The HMDA records of this lender, with a CSV download.
Submit a complaint (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)The CFPB form for a complaint about a mortgage or a lender.

Cite this page

Page: Lender Register, "First Ohio Home Finance mortgage rates and denial rate, 2025", https://lenderregister.com/lender/5493004nmxquyefd1y98-first-ohio-home-finance/
Lender: First Ohio Home Finance, LEI 5493004NMXQUYEFD1Y98
Source: Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, 2025, snapshot dataset
Data date: HMDA year 2025. Page made 2 Oct 2026.

Provenance

The figures come from the public HMDA loan/application register of 2022 to 2025. The count of records filed comes from the transmittal sheets of 2018 to 2025. The FFIEC and the CFPB publish them at ffiec.cfpb.gov. The name, the head office and the agency are from the newest transmittal sheet of the LEI. The VA figures are from the VA lender statistics.

This site withholds a figure with fewer than 25 applications and a median with fewer than 20 loans. Method of the figures. Terms. Report an error.

Questions

How many loans did First Ohio Home Finance buy from other lenders in 2025?: It reported no purchased loans. HMDA counts a purchased loan apart from the applications, so the denial rate does not include it.
In which states did First Ohio Home Finance originate the most loans in 2025?: It had 25 applications or more in one state only: Ohio, with 592 loans originated.
Which loan types did First Ohio Home Finance originate in 2025?: 447 conventional, 132 FHA, 12 VA and 17 USDA.
How did the applications of First Ohio Home Finance change from 2022 to 2025?: It reported 1,061 applications in 2022 and 819 in 2025.