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Licensed role · Utah

Mortgage loan originator

The person who takes your loan application and quotes you terms. This is the role the state real estate lookup does not cover, and the one buyers most often skip checking.

Licensed by Utah Division of Real Estate, under the Utah Residential Mortgage Practices and Licensing Act — verified through the national registry, not the state search box
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Run by State Regulatory Registry LLC, a subsidiary of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. Free, no account.

Often mistaken for: A single national standard. Registration and licensure are different things on the same screen: a loan originator at a federally regulated bank is registered with an identifier, while a Utah-licensed originator has cleared the state's education and testing on top. Both appear; the record says which.

Tiers you will see on the record
  • Mortgage loan originator — the individual who takes the application
  • Lending manager — principal, associate or branch, supervising originators
  • Mortgage entity, DBA or branch — the company record, which is separate from the individual's
Not a license

A company's advertised rate table is marketing, not a credential. So is a lender's own badge or award page. The identifier and the state license record are the parts that come from a regulator.

What the record shows
  • Whether the individual is licensed in Utah, registered federally, or neither
  • The identifier, which follows the person between employers
  • The employing company and its own record
  • Regulatory actions reported to the system
What it does not show
  • What you will actually be charged — that lives on the Loan Estimate, not in any registry
  • Whether the originator has ever closed a loan on the kind of property you are buying
  • Applications the state has not yet approved
Ask before you hire
In Utah Valley

Mortgage originators working with buyers here are frequently licensed in several states at once. The registry shows the whole list, and Utah has to be on it for the loan to be originated here.

The rule this sits under

Utah Residential Mortgage Practices and Licensing Act. Complaints about a licensee go to the division's intake; sustained action appears in its disciplinary actions.

The other four roles
Licensed role
Real estate agent or broker
The person who lists or shows the house. In Utah this is a state license with tiers, and the tier changes who is legally responsible when something goes wrong.
How to check agents and brokers →
Licensed role
Property manager
In Utah, managing someone else's rental for a fee is real estate activity. That surprises owners and tenants alike, and it means the person collecting your rent has a license you can check.
How to check property managers →
Licensed role
Appraiser
The lender's valuation, not yours. Appraisers are licensed by the same division as agents and appear in the same lookup, which is the one convenient thing about this list.
How to check appraisers →
Licensed role
Title and escrow
The company that holds the money and insures the title. It is regulated from two directions at once, which is why checking it takes two lookups instead of one.
How to check title and escrow →

Checked against the regulators' own sites on 2026-08-16. Agencies reorganize their sites; follow the link rather than trusting a description that has aged. Back to all five roles →

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