2025 activity year · Official source proof

Vermont mortgage market

Reported mortgage application activity from the official CFPB/FFIEC HMDA Data Browser, with purchased loans excluded from the application denominator.

Activity year
2025
Applications reported20.9KSnapshot dataset; cross-kind change withheld
Originations reported13.4K64.3% of reported applications
Reporting lenders325Institutions with reported activity in Vermont

Action taken

What happened to applications?

20,857 total
Originated64.3% · 13,418
Approved, not accepted2.3% · 482
Denied14.7% · 3,065
Withdrawn12.9% · 2,700
File closed for incompleteness4.9% · 1,019
Preapproval approved, not accepted0.8% · 162

“Originated” means the reported application resulted in a loan. It is not an approval probability for a future applicant.

Loan purpose

Why people applied

  • Home purchase42.9%
  • Home improvement15.0%
  • Other purpose12.1%
  • Refinancing15.6%
  • Cash-out refinancing14.3%

Next source gate

Denial reasons are not published yet.

That analysis requires the raw modified-LAR pipeline, reason-code reconciliation, and small-cell review. We will not fill the gap with estimates or unsupported conclusions.

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Data provenance

Every published number will carry its source.

This profile identifies the activity year, cohort rules, source endpoint, response hash, and processing date. Source: CFPB/FFIEC HMDA Data Browser API. Last refreshed September 2, 2026.

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