
SoFi Mortgage
Online bank mortgages with 3% down for first-time buyers, a published $1,495 origination fee and a 90-day rate lock
Lender terms checked October 14, 2026See lender siteThe Bottom Line
- Min. down (non-VA)
- 3% (verified Oct 14, 2026). All rates and fees
Key facts
- Loan types: Conventional, FHA, VA, Jumbo
- Online pre-approval: Yes
Pros
- Lock and Look lets you lock your rate for up to 90 days while you search
- 3% down for qualifying first-time buyers, and VA loans with no down payment
- Publishes its standard origination fee ($1,495) and its member discounts
- A $10,000 On-Time Close Guarantee, paid as a credit toward closing costs, with conditions
Cons
- No minimum credit score or debt-to-income limit is published
- The standard origination fee is $1,495; the $500 discounts need SoFi products or qualifying deposits
- The minimum loan amount is $75,000
- Its closing-time statistic (32 days on average) dates from August 2023
At a glance
Lender terms checked October 14, 2026- Lender type
- Bank (online)
- Loan purposes
- Purchase, Refinance, Cash-out refinance
- Loan types
- Conventional, FHA, VA, Jumbo
- Minimum down payment
- 0% (0% on VA, 3.5% on FHA, 3% on conventional for qualifying first-time buyers (5% for other borrowers))
- Minimum down payment without VA
- 3%
- Loan amounts
- From $75,000
- States served
- All states, with an exception for purchase loans in New York (its eligibility page wording is ambiguous)
- Online pre-approval
- Yes. Verified preapproval letter; checking your rate is a soft credit pull
- Lender fees
- Standard origination fee of $1,495 on SoFi Bank purchase and refinance mortgages, less a one-time $500 member discount, plus another $500 for SoFi Plus subscribers or qualifying deposits.
- Rate lock
- Lock and Look: lock your rate for up to 90 days while you search. No lock fee is published.
- Closing time (lender's claim)
- Average of 32 days to close a purchase loan (SoFi's own figure, dated August 2023)
- First-time buyer programs
- 3% down conventional for qualifying first-time buyers; up to $9,500 cash back through HomeStory Rewards, a third-party service
- NMLS ID
- 696891
Sources: sofi.com/home-loans/mortgage, sofi.com/eligibility-criteria, read October 14, 2026
Things to know before you apply
- A 3% down payment applies to qualifying first-time buyers only. Other borrowers need at least 5% on conventional loans, and conventional loans above 80% loan-to-value need PMI.
- The standard origination fee is $1,495. The $500 discount and extra $500 for SoFi Plus or qualifying deposits are not automatic.
- The On-Time Close Guarantee pays a credit of up to $10,000 toward closing costs, not cash, and has conditions, including a closing date at least 25 days out (30 for VA, 40 for jumbo).
- SoFi does not publish a minimum credit score or a debt-to-income limit.
Regulatory record
We found no CFPB enforcement action about mortgage lending by this lender on consumerfinance.gov. Searched the CFPB enforcement actions list on October 14, 2026 for SoFi, Social Finance and SoFi Bank. That is not a clean bill of health: other regulators, courts and state agencies also act on lenders.
Where these numbers come from
Everything in the table above was read from the lender's own pages, listed here with the day we read them.
- SoFi mortgage page read October 14, 2026
- SoFi eligibility criteria read October 14, 2026
- Cash-out refinance page read October 14, 2026
NMLS ID 696891, as the lender prints it on its own site. Confirm its licenses in your state on NMLS Consumer Access (that site blocks automated checks, so we have not confirmed the lookup ourselves).
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Source: sofi.com