DSCR Loans in Hudson County, New Jersey
Jersey City, Hoboken, Bayonne, Union City, West New York, North Bergen. DSCR, fix & flip, bridge, ground-up, and no-ratio programs — qualified on the property's rental income, not your tax returns. Rent control modeled correctly upfront.
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Who actually lends on investment properties in Hudson County
Every year, lenders report their originations under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. We filtered New Jersey's 2025 filings to closed-end loans on 1–4 unit investment properties and rolled them up to the county: 1,393 loans totaling $800.7M in Hudson County across 188 lenders — against a statewide average investor loan of $430K. These were the most active.
| Lender | Loans | Volume | Avg loan | Purchase share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CROSSCOUNTRY MORTGAGE, INC. | 112 | $59.7M | $533K | 65.2% |
| Loan Funder LLC | 59 | $42.9M | $727K | 74.6% |
| Loandepot.Com, LLC | 51 | $29.9M | $586K | 66.7% |
| Logan Finance Corporation | 45 | $29.5M | $656K | 46.7% |
| THE LOAN STORE, INC. | 43 | $23.5M | $546K | 46.5% |
| United Wholesale Mortgage | 40 | $19.8M | $494K | 42.5% |
| CHAMPIONS FUNDING, LLC | 40 | $22.8M | $570K | 30.0% |
| ABL RPC Residential Credit Acquisition LLC | 37 | $44.1M | $1191K | 0.0% |
| Emporium TPO LLC | 36 | $20.6M | $573K | 69.4% |
| Rocket Mortgage, LLC | 31 | $11.4M | $367K | 38.7% |
| Kiavi Funding, Inc. | 30 | $23.7M | $790K | 86.7% |
| FIRST COLONY MORTGAGE CORPORATION | 29 | $14.8M | $511K | 20.7% |
| PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC | 25 | $14.1M | $565K | 64.0% |
| TD Bank, National Association | 24 | $15.2M | $635K | 54.2% |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | 24 | $13.0M | $540K | 58.3% |
| A&D Mortgage LLC | 23 | $10.2M | $443K | 43.5% |
| GUARANTEED RATE, INC. | 22 | $11.2M | $509K | 59.1% |
| VELOCITY COMMERCIAL CAPITAL, LLC | 21 | $10.4M | $495K | 38.1% |
| Hometown Equity Mortgage, LLC | 21 | $11.1M | $530K | 28.6% |
| BOND STREET MORTGAGE, LLC | 19 | $10.2M | $537K | 52.6% |
| CMG MORTGAGE, INC. | 19 | $9.8M | $517K | 89.5% |
| ICE LENDER HOLDINGS LLC | 19 | $11.9M | $626K | 42.1% |
| Commerce Home Mortgage, Inc. | 19 | $10.7M | $566K | 78.9% |
| KIND LENDING, LLC | 18 | $11.9M | $659K | 27.8% |
| Kearny Bank | 16 | $7.3M | $455K | 75.0% |
Source: 2025 HMDA loan-level data (CFPB/FFIEC Data Browser), county roll-up of Hudson County, retrieved July 22, 2026. Updated annually. See how this data is built or download the full county dataset (CSV) — every listed lender with every underlying figure.
What this table can't show you: fit. HMDA exempts short-term financing, so fix-and-flip and bridge lenders barely appear here — and no federal dataset knows which lender's guidelines match your deal, your entity, or your timeline. That's the job. National Loan Provider structures your file and places it across 100+ lenders — including several on this list — so it lands with the one most likely to fund it.
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4-family investment property
Four units, four rents, one loan — the structure Hudson County's housing stock was built for. The building's combined rental income qualified the financing; the borrower's tax returns were never part of the file. This is the same structure we underwrite every week across Jersey City, Bayonne, and North Hudson.
Six municipalities. Six different deals.
Hudson County packs the state's densest rental markets into a few square miles — and the right structure changes town by town. Here's how we see it.
Jersey City
The county's deepest investor market — brownstones, 2–4 family rowhouses, small multifamily, and BRRRR stock across Bergen-Lafayette, the Heights, Journal Square, and Greenville. Rent control applies to most pre-1987 buildings with 4+ units.
Jersey City DSCR page →Hoboken
Premium rents and premium acquisition prices in one square mile. Rent control under Hoboken's own ordinance adds underwriting complexity that out-of-state lenders consistently mishandle — legal rents, not listing rents, drive the DSCR.
Bayonne
The county's value entry point: 2–4 family stock at meaningfully lower bases than Jersey City or Hoboken, with the 8th Street Light Rail connecting tenants to the PATH system and Manhattan.
Union City · West New York · North Bergen
North Hudson's densely built 2–4 family and small multifamily corridor along the Palisades. High renter share and steady demand from commuters priced out of Hoboken and downtown Jersey City. Rent regulation varies by municipality — we verify the ordinance for the specific building before underwriting.
Every investor loan program. All of Hudson County.
From a Bayonne two-family to a Jersey City brownstone renovation — no tax returns required on any of them.
DSCR Rental Loan
- ✓Qualifies on rent only
- ✓Up to 80% LTV
- ✓SFR, 2–4 unit, small multifamily
- ✓Close in your NJ LLC
- ✓No limit on financed properties
Fix & Flip Loan
- ✓Up to 90% of purchase
- ✓100% rehab financing
- ✓Close in 7–14 days
- ✓Interest-only payments
- ✓Bridge-to-DSCR takeout built in
Bridge Loan
- ✓Fund in 7 days
- ✓Asset-based — no income docs
- ✓2nd position up to 75% CLTV
- ✓Cross-collateral accepted
- ✓Built for value-add rowhouse stock
Ground-Up & No-Ratio
- ✓Infill construction up to 85% LTC
- ✓No-ratio DSCR for sub-1.0 deals
- ✓Low-DSCR pricing down to ~0.80
- ✓Common on premium-priced Hudson deals
Four Hudson County realities that decide whether your loan closes.
Rent regulation is municipality-by-municipality — and it drives the DSCR
Jersey City's rent control ordinance generally covers buildings constructed before 1987 with four or more units; Hoboken maintains rent control under its own ordinance; and the rules differ again across North Hudson. On a covered building, the legal rents — not market rents — are the income the loan underwrites to. National platforms underwrite at market, discover the constraint in committee, and the deal dies two weeks in. We pull the ordinance status and legal rents for the specific building before we issue a term sheet.
The county's core inventory is pre-war 2–4 family rowhouse stock
Hudson County is one of the most densely built counties in the country, and much of its investor inventory is pre-war 2-, 3-, and 4-family rowhouses and brownstones on small lots. That vintage triggers automatic flags with out-of-state appraisers and AVMs — age, knob-and-tube, original plumbing. We work with appraisers who know the difference between a renovated rowhouse and a gut-rehab project, and DSCR programs that treat four rents on one loan as the asset it is.
Tax assessments distort PITIA if you use county averages
Jersey City completed its first citywide reassessment in decades, and the impact varies wildly by neighborhood and vintage — while each Hudson municipality assesses on its own cycle. Generic DSCR calculators plug in stale or averaged tax data and miss the real PITIA by hundreds of dollars a month, which can swing the DSCR past the qualifying line in either direction. We pull current assessor data for the specific parcel.
Manhattan-adjacent demand is the fundamental
The PATH system, ferries, and the Lincoln Tunnel put Hudson County tenants in Manhattan faster than most of the outer boroughs — which is why rental demand across the county stays deep and vacancy stays tight. For a DSCR investor the consequence is practical: rents underwrite cleanly, stabilization risk is low, and lenders compete for well-structured Hudson County files. Our job is routing yours to the one whose box it fits.
Common questions from Hudson County investors.
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Go deeper on New Jersey DSCR lending
The statewide hub — market-by-market DSCR math and the NJ investor-lender table.
Neighborhood-level playbook: Bergen-Lafayette, Journal Square, the Heights, Greenville.
Run rent ÷ PITIA on your Hudson County deal before you call.
How we build the HMDA investor-lender tables — filters, sources, limitations.
Every deal here is structured personally by Dominick Prevete — 31 years in real estate finance, $2B+ closed, 100+ lender relationships.
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Tell us about your Hudson County property — rowhouse, brownstone, condo, small multifamily, or BRRRR. Rent control, vintage construction, and municipal assessments handled correctly. Written term sheet within 24 hours.