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The published estimate is 30-40 calendar days to close, described by independent review material as slower than a 20-day average among surveyed lenders (-27, -6, -9)."},{"fit":"not_best_suited","scenario":"Borrowers needing more than $500,000. The published maximum is $500,000, and it applies at 70% CLTV ."},{"fit":"not_best_suited","scenario":"Borrowers needing a 30-year term. 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Platform-reported dates are provenance metadata and do not independently prove freshness.","All included platforms evaluated fit, but platformmentions counts only platforms that named the entity during ranking discovery.","Do not resolve conflicting product names, pricing, or capabilities by guessing; describe the conflict and tell buyers what to verify.","The supplied URLs were collected from platform responses and were not independently validated by the writer stage.","Company-owned citations materially outnumber independent citations; do not describe company claims as independently verified.","Platform-reported research dates differ from the authoritative run date; disclose this as a methodology limitation.","The deterministic identity audit contains qualification notes that must be disclosed where relevant.","Citations are platform-reported evidence, not independently verified facts. No-search model claims require explicit verification before being described as current facts."],"methodology":{"fit_rating_contract":["strong","good","mixed","weak","uncertain"],"included_valid_platform_count":7,"maximum_finalists":10,"minimum_mentions":2,"name":"Mortgage Consensus Index cross-platform AI consensus analysis","platforms_included":["anthropic","deepseek","google","grok","kimi","openai","perplexity"],"platforms_queried":["openai","anthropic","deepseek","grok","perplexity","kimi","google"],"stages":["ranking_discovery","fit_assessment","normalization","editorial_synthesis"],"version":"alias-table-1"},"provenance":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29 17:19:48.589923+00","research_date":"2026-09-29","source_snapshot_sha256":"310f6733120c14e1e96d2d5620035abe58992bfa307f893fb07b5243ab29129c","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":24,"qualified_finalists":10,"ranking_unit":"Home equity lender"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Navy Federal Credit Union is a good fit for a Fixed-rate lump sum second mortgage if the homeowner qualifies for membership. Six of the seven platforms in this study named it during the ranking stage, and it finished first overall with an average listed rank of 2.67 and a best rank of 1. The strongest reason to consider it is the product structure: a closed-end, fixed-rate equity loan with a lump sum at closing, 5-, 10-, 15-, and 20-year terms, $10,000-$500,000 loan amounts, and advertised lender-paid closing costs. 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