Newrez Reviews

This is one of the worst lender company ever. They sent me a message of an escrow analysis at the beginning of the year. Then they told me to change my mortgage insurance to decrease the monthly payment. I did what they told me to do and then they did another escrow analysis and told me that there was another increased and that I had to pay. I cannot afford a double increased on my mortgage in such a short time. I called, and they suggested to plead my case and that it will get fix. I did it, and I just got an email saying that unfortunately have to pay the increased. They do not care about the people, they only care about the money.

I paid off my mortgage on February 17, 2026. The lien was supposed to be released within 90 days. It's well over the 90 days and it still hasn't been released. I was told the paperwork was sent to a third party and they are waiting for them to process it but they couldn't even tell me who the third party was or what the hold up is. I am going to have to take legal action if it has not been released in a week. This is unacceptable! DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THE COMPANY!

I don't even know where to begin. It's been an absolutely horrible experience with Newrez. We lost our home in Altadena, CA during the Eaton fire. We made the decision early that we were going to rebuild. Since we still owed on our mortgage, we had to co-sign the insurance payout check and send it to Newrez. Keep in mind that they are making interest on the money. They have this process, procedure, or protocol on how much they disburse funds for the rebuild. Like so many others in Altadena, we were underinsured. However, we were able to secure an SBA loan and used personal savings to make up the difference. From the very beginning, I explained this to the many different and rotating customer service reps, as well as multiple supervisors.

Why can't I give 0 stars. This company is horrific. Who can make them comply with the law? They misapply payments, violate RESPA and have no integrity. There is no accountability.

​DO NOT TRUST THIS COMPANY. NewRez is violating my state constitutional rights as a 100% permanently and totally disabled veteran, illegally inflating my mortgage payment, and using aggressive customer service stonewalling to cover up their own errors. ​Under Article X, Section 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia, my primary residence is strictly tax-exempt ($0 liability). In May 2026, I provided NewRez my official Virginia Beach exemption letter. I called and had them confirm receipt BEFORE they ran an escrow analysis. Their team completely ignored it, jacked up my payment, and admitted it was their internal oversight.

I had a Terrible experience with the mortgage servicing company that handed over by DR Horton home loan an year ago. My loan was initially moved to Shellpoint Mortgage and later renamed to Newrez. When I sold my house in first week of Mar 2026, they provided a payoff statement with a final amount due. That payoff statement did NOT include the prorated property taxes that were due in next 2 months (Apr 30th). I clearly informed them during closing that I had already included the prorated taxes amount to the buyer in closing statement, yet after receiving the payoff amount they still paid those taxes themselves and then turned around and charged me an additional $1,500+ other than the taxes they paid without providing any proper breakdown or explanation.

NEWREZ is the servicer to my mortgage. Hence, I needed a partial release of my stock certificates from them since I wanted to sell one of my parking spaces (not the co-op unit itself). The buyer and I signed a purchase contract in November of 2024, and I have been trying to obtain said stock certificate for the sale since then. All I get from NEWREZ are vague letters stating they are working on it (and these occurred only after I wrote to the Dept of Finance). No date or time frame has ever been given to me by NEWREZ or given to the to my attorney (not that she ever returns my correspondence so I am assuming she is no longer acting on my behalf). For all I know, the buyer is no longer interested, and it is all for naught at this point anyway. Thanks for nothing, NEWREZ!

This is the most unorganized mortgage company. I bought my house in October and Mortgage America sold my mortgage to Newrez the day I made settlement. They proceeded to pay a homeowners policy for the previous owners out of my escrow account. I reviewed by escrow account on line and saw that they paid them and that was not my homeowners company. I have been calling them since April 21st and each and every person I have talked to has said that they will escalate the payment being returned to my escrow account. You can never talk to the person who you talked to the last time. I can't wait until I have enough equity in my house to refinance to a different mortgage company. I have spoke to 5 people and each person says they are looking into it and will call me back but they do not.

Worst experience ever. Bought my house in the '90's. Never missed a payment. It's been a mess. The amount still owed is more than what I paid in when I signed up. And if anyone thinks chat can help, no... it's scribed answers that don't answer the question. Owe more now than when I bought as a widow. Oregon needs a lawsuit like Washington. Not going to wait, hiring an attorney to do forensics on my payments. Since I have ALL documents from day one, so they better be able to answer the questions that will be asked.

Newrez is horrible. Beware. My husband was very sick with brain cancer. I was unable to work while taking care of him and our children. He passed away from the cancer after a hard fight. I called Newrez and told them I needed a hardship assistance or payment deferral for a few months while I caught up after returning to work. I have tons of medical bills and I am trying to deal with the grief of myself and my kids. Newrez told me that I didn't qualify for any assistance because I was in a hardship situation but that I could ask for assistance after my hardship was resolved. This makes zero sense. If it's resolved, I would not need the help. They were not compassionate, said nothing about sorry for your loss or anything. Just denied and you will get a letter in the mail. After 20 years of making the payments and being denied the one time I need assistance is horrible.

Do not use this company for your HELOC loan! You will regret it. We took out a loan and at first everything was fine. It remained fine until we needed to close the loan. That is when the nightmare began. Each time I call I am routed to a different person. That person gave me different information each time. They would tell me that they had resolved the issue and I would receive the closure letter. But then no letter and the account was again not closed. I have been calling for over a month. Same run around every time. They won't give you their number so you can call them back. So you have to call the 1-800 number to again be routed to someone else and start the conversation all over again. It took over a month of phone calls, and hours on the phone to close the loan. I'm still waiting on my closure letter. We are refinancing and have been unable to close the loan because of this!

The worst mortgage and escrow company. Website does not work properly. They charge without authorization. Hard to reach managers. I will refinance and get a better company. Stay away from Newrez!! I do not want generic response to my review. If you really care, you call and solve all of my issues!!!

BEWARE! Do yourself a favor and avoid loan origination and loan servicing with Newrez LLC. Customer service is non-existent. NewRez appears to actively search for ways to frustrate customers and maximize irritation as sport. The Newrez business model is toxic, serious errors abound and the associates lack skill, knowledge, and ability to assist customers in any meaningful way.

My loan was originally through Caliber Home Loans and they were acquired by Newrez around 2021. Since then, I have not had a single good thing to say about my experience with them. The website is constantly breaking, and I have almost missed payments due to the inability to log in and load pages. There was a mysterious $60 penalty fee on my statements with no explanation as to what it was for, and to make things worse, no way for me to pay it. I could make additional escrow or principal payments but could not pay this mystery charge and so it stayed on all my statements until we sold our house.

There's no way to communicate with them. Their website fails at times, especially around communicating with them. They only give you certain things to contact them about on the webpage and you can't really attach anything. They almost never get back to you. Phone system sends you down multiple dead ends. You are lucky if you can talk to someone in after one or more calls. Figure a lot of time to get anything done. Stay away from them if at all possible.

Newrez has been a nightmare!!! I have spent years attempting to get a pay off amount that includes my years of additional principal payments. I pay biweekly & pay additional payments monthly ($600) and they continue to report my balance reflecting the "original" principal payments only. They are not calculating interest savings. Pure fraud! They are intentionally inadequate. I pay on time, extra and clearly they are stealing the payments to eliminate me paying it off!!! I have reported this to FCC, BBB, every level of management at NewRez, nothing!!!!

I was approached by NewRez to refinance my home in Maine. They informed me that based preliminarily on my income and my credit score that I would be able to reduce by interest rate by almost 3 whole points (I bought at the height of the market). I authorized them to do a credit check and begin the process. Then, they went radio silent. No response. Days turned into weeks, weeks into months. I finally get a letter from them stating that the application is abandoned. Meanwhile, I now have a hard credit check with nothing to show for it. They reached out and told me that I could refinance again. I told them that I tried and that they completely ghosted me. Profuse apologies flooded in, they re-opened the application and used the same credit check from before. The process was restarted.

I started asking about my escrow analysis on Dec 6 2025. The said it was mailed out. I called 9 times for my escrow analysis and January mortgage statement. I got the run around by 9 different managers. I finally received my statement on January 17. I filled out the coupon with the full escrow amount and $400 dollars toward additional principal. Newrez made a massive error and put all of the money towards my mortgage statement. There are lines on the coupon showing where I want the money to go.

The worst worst worst company. If I could give 0 stars, I would. First there is not a way to direct contact anyone at the company. There is information to get into touch with anyone. You have to stay on customer service line for hours and the people do not speak fluent English at all. The website does not work well. Constantly breaks and then you are responsible for late fees when they cannot make a functioning website in 2026. They missed my parcel ID and I had to pay out of pocket for my property taxes and had a lien placed on my property because they were paying the WRONG ONE. If I hadn't stayed on them and calling and calling they would not admit their mistake. Worst mortgage company ever. Staffed by outsourced staff that don't know basic words in English. I hope they go out of business and the CEO is personally held accountable for how bad their customer service and professionalism is.

The Newrez or the Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing company, I am wondering if they are a real mortgage company or if they do not know what they are doing or if they are using this practice to take people money. Since September 2024, I have been fighting with them to bring my mortgage current since they said I am one month behind. They sent my name on collection. I had to contact all the credit bureau myself and send them proof of payment that I am not behind on my payments. All three-credit bureau removed my name from collection. It has been more than a year. They are still saying that I am behind, but they cannot send me in collection. “Ridiculous.”

Horrible company. Kept changing the prices to close on the refinance. Nothing about this process was smooth or enjoyable. They tell you one thing and then change the prices all while giving a high interest rate. They had me pay off certain things to get the loan and appraisal, approved the loan and then asked for another close to 10k on the closing. At first to close they wanted nothing, then it went to 10k, then it went to 20k. They told me that my appraisal came back 10k short on a 1.5-million-dollar home. If you ask around, I can bet that you won't ever hear of an appraisal coming back 10k short on a 1.5-million-dollar home. Do not use this company. They have multiple locations and if you look at the reviews they are mostly recent and bad.

I called to ask a question and received incorrect information or incomplete details. They removed our escrow account without reason. When we contacted them, they informed us we needed to resubmit all the paperwork to have it reinstated. We did that, and then they claimed it was never received, even though we sent it electronically and through mail. Poor customer service!

I came to echo the exact same sentiments as all of these other reviews. Newrez has, by far, the WORST customer service of ANY business I have ever dealt with. I have been trying for ALMOST A YEAR to close my escrow account since I would rather make my tax and insurance payments myself instead of Newrez hanging on to my money. After being told that we could not close our escrow account due to our loan to value ratio not meeting the 80% requirement, I requested documentation of where that is written into our loan type requirements that an escrow account is required if LTV is below 80%. Months of round and round, submit request on portal, do not submit on portal, you must email, you must submit a letter with hand-written signatures, to get this: YOU MUST HAND WRITE A LETTER, and then YOU NEED TO BE MORE DIRECT IN YOUR LETTER.

LAWSUIT waiting to happen. I am not a customer, but here is what Newrez has done. Newrez filed their customer's mortgage with the county onto my property. My mortgage company (Rocket) already provided me and my roofing contractor a pre-approval. Roof tiles have been stripped off the roof. Rocket emailed back that the approval is on HOLD till this is resolved. My roofer pulled off the job, and I now have an unprotected roof.

I recently sold my home that had a loan through Newrez. Closed the loan on May 23, 2025. Still, as of August 12, 2025 no refund of my escrow account. Called them 3 times. 2 times was told they mailed it to the wrong address. Now supposedly they are going to direct deposit it. That was what I was told on August 1. Why won't they give me MY money back? It's going on 3 months now!

I'd leave negative stars if I could. My sister recently had her loan transferred to this fly-by-night, incompetent wanna-be lender. Their website won't allow a payment to be made, their "contact me" message says that it will take them 30 days to respond, and the phone number on their website also does not work. I googled "Newrez how to talk to a real person" to get a number, so we called them on that number which is where the chick who answered told us no less than 3 times that they were a collection agency and anything we say will be used to collect a debt.

As a disabled veteran, this company has done nothing but act in contempt toward me. They answer the phone with a script saying "thank you for your sacrifice to our country" then proceed to spite me and ignore my requests. They purchased our loan from Armed Forces Bank then 'accidentally' restructured it adding in property taxes when I am exempt. They will not let me delete/opt-out of escrow and their system won't let them fix the problem' for several months - causing a significant financial hardship. My mortgage is going up $800, per month, for taxes that will not be owed. All they had to say was 'sorry for the inconvenience'. I have submitted a complaint for discrimination against them.

I have been unable to log into my portal 9/10 times since my mortgage was sold to Newrez. If you call, any number you select to talk to a representative just loops you back to the main menu so you never get to actually speak with anyone. The Chat feature from their website was less than helpful. I needed my 1098 or year-end statement. They said they would email it to me but did not. I told them I could not log into the portal and needed to be able to and they indicated something must be wrong and left the chat. Here I am unable to see or access anything to do with my mortgage and no person to assist.

HORRIBLE COMPANY, NO CUSTOMER SERVICE. NewRez has increased my fixed rt mortgage $2000/MONTH because they did not escrow enough for my property taxes. Took them 3 YEARS to figure that out. I asked 3 yrs ago to pay MY property taxes & was denied. Now I am paying for THEIR SCREW UP!!!! Have made 2 calls to again request paying my own property taxes with NO ANSWER!! DO NOT USE NEWREZ >>> HORRID!!!

My loan was transferred to NewRez two years ago and their customer service is absolutely terrible! My first experience calling customer service was about my account number not registering with my bank to use my online checking to pay the bill. They had absolutely no answer for me and just told me that I couldn't do it and had to make the payment from their website.