Current super-jumbo bank-statement guidelines, updated from one source.
The snapshot below is not typed onto this page — it is pulled from one super-jumbo bank-statement guideline source and refreshed when that source changes, so Austin, TX always shows the ladder in force.
Program ceiling
Balances run from the program minimum to the ceiling shown, across two programs; the largest bands sit on the bank portfolio program at its bank-statement leverage cap.
Top primary-residence leverage
At the first rung of the ladder a primary residence reaches this ceiling; second homes and investment property carry their own ceilings, and the ceilings fall as the balance climbs (not at every band) — the ladder table shows each one.
Months of bank statements
Twelve or twenty-four months of statements qualify the file; the expense ratio depends on whether the account is personal or business and on the size of the business.
Credit floor
The credit floor for the portfolio program’s lower bands; the bank portfolio program carries its own floor, and above the overlay line a higher floor applies.
Qualifying income is the eligible deposits divided by the statement months, after the ownership share and any expense ratio; total obligations stay inside this cap.
Cash in hand is capped at this figure when the loan is above sixty percent of value; at or below that leverage the proceeds are not capped on the portfolio program.
An interest-only period is available through select programs at its own leverage and credit floor; the bank portfolio program carries a lower interest-only cap.
| Loan size | Primary residence | Second home | Investment |
|---|---|---|---|
| $300,000 – $1M | 90% · 680+ | 85% · 700+ | 85% · 700+ |
| $1M – $1.5M | 85% · 700+ | 80% · 680+ | 80% · 680+ |
| $1.5M – $2M | 85% · 720+ | 80% · 700+ | 80% · 700+ |
| $2M – $2.5M | 80% · 720+ | 80% · 720+ | 80% · 720+ |
| $2.5M – $3M | 80% · 720+ | 75% · 720+ | 75% · 720+ |
| $3M – $3.5M | 75% · 720+ | 65% · 760+ | 60% · 680+ · bank program |
| $3.5M – $4M | 75% · 760+ | 65% · 760+ | 60% · 680+ · bank program |
| $4M – $5M | 65% · 680+ · bank program | 65% · 760+ · case by case | 65% · 760+ · case by case |
| $5M – $6M | 60% · 680+ · bank program | 55% · 680+ · bank program | 55% · 680+ · bank program |
| $6M – $10M | 60% · 680+ · bank program | 55% · 680+ · bank program | 55% · 680+ · bank program |
| $10M – $20M | 55% · 680+ · bank program | 50% · 680+ · bank program | 50% · 680+ · bank program |
| $20M – $30M | 55% · 680+ · bank program | 50% · 680+ · bank program | 50% · 680+ · bank program |
Current super-jumbo bank-statement snapshot · updated September 7, 2026 · portfolio program to $6M, the bank portfolio program alongside it and on to the ceiling · super-jumbo overlays above $3.5M on a primary residence and $3M on a second home or investment property · portfolio-program balances above $4M reviewed case by case before submission · reserves 3–9 months by loan size.
Program figures are hydrated from one guideline source and change when it changes. Leverage steps down by loan-size band and occupancy, credit floors rise above the overlay line, cash-out has its own ladder, and the largest balances move to the bank portfolio program; all of it is subject to lender program eligibility and underwriting. No rate, payment, fee, or lender identity appears on this page, and Lendmire is the broker, not the lender.
What a super-jumbo bank-statement loan is — and how deposits become income.
For Austin, TX borrowers, the program is best understood as a table rather than a number: each occupancy has its own ladder, each loan-size band has its own leverage and credit cells, and two programs share the work.
For a balance inside the standard ceiling, the standard program covers it — see the guide to bank statement loans in Texas. The statewide guide to super jumbo bank statement loans in Texas explains the ladder for every market in the state.
Deposits qualify the loan, not tax returns
A high-value home in Austin, TX qualifies the same way a modest one does — on the statements — but the lender reads the deposits, the business, and the expense ratio more closely, because the number they support is larger.
Leverage is a ladder by occupancy and size
The ladder is the program: as an Austin, TX balance climbs from one band to the next, leverage steps down and the credit required for the top cell rises. Planning the equity around the band is the first structural decision.
Credit, reserves and overlays rise with the balance
In Austin, TX, the overlays above the line are the program’s way of translating size into credit: a higher floor, a spotless housing history, longer seasoning after any credit event, and reserves that scale with the payment.
Two programs, one file
For Austin, TX borrowers planning a very large balance, the program that carries it is decided by the ladder: the portfolio program through its bands — case by case above its review line — and the bank portfolio program above them. Either way, the deposits qualify the file.
The income is measured the way the program measures it, and the leverage cell is read from the matrix for the occupancy, loan size and credit tier. The calculator applies both; the statements and the appraisal apply the rest.
Where Austin’s self-employed high earners buy — and how a lender reads the market.
Census housing and income data describe where Austin, TX’s self-employed high earners buy and what the top of the market costs; a lender reads those figures as context for the appraisal, not as underwriting inputs.
Market context only. A large share of high-value homes signals depth of comparables for the appraiser; a large share of top-bracket households signals the deposits that carry a high-balance payment.
Data sources: U.S. Census Bureau — ACS 5-Year (2024) housing and population estimates, including owner-occupied home values by bracket, household income by bracket, and class of worker.
Distinct Austin submarkets, distinct appraisal stories.
Across Austin’s prestige neighborhoods, high-rise residences, and historic estates, the same program produces different structures because values, comparables, and property types differ block by block.
Luxury townhomes and two-to-four-unit homes
Attached and small multi-unit luxury property in Austin can carry a large balance; the lender reads the building’s documents or the unit count together with the statements. Median household income in Austin sits near $93,658, the middle of a distribution whose top end the program serves.
Historic and estate districts
Historic property in Austin appraises on a thin comparable set; two appraisals are routine once the balance crosses the line, and the review takes longer. Census estimates place about 14% of Austin’s owner-occupied homes at a value of one million dollars or more — roughly 28,214 homes.
Prestige neighborhoods
The prestige neighborhoods of Austin offer the deepest comparable sales in the market, which is the half of a high-balance file the borrower cannot bring: the deposits qualify the income, the comparables qualify the price. Austin counts a population near 980K within the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX area.
Executive suburbs and enclaves
The relocation market around Austin keeps values well supported on high-value homes, and a file built on solid deposits reads cleanly against the ladder. About 19% of Austin’s households earn two hundred thousand dollars a year or more — roughly 85,584 households at the top of the income distribution.
New luxury construction
Where Austin is adding new estates and towers, the value case rests on recent closed sales of similar product, and the lender applies the ladder only once those support the number. The median owner-occupied home value in Austin runs near $555,300 on the latest Census estimate.
High-rise and full-service residences
In Austin’s towers, the borrower’s deposits are one half of the file and the building’s financials are the other; a non-warrantable project carries its own cell. Roughly 63,941 Austin workers — about 11% of the workforce — work for themselves, the borrowers bank-statement programs exist for.
Read the submarkets as orientation. The file’s figures come from the statements, the appraisal, and the program matrix.
Four ways Austin entrepreneurs put super-jumbo bank-statement financing to work.
How Austin entrepreneurs put the program to work depends on the occupancy, the balance, and the goal; these four paths cover most files.
Buy a primary residence above the standard ceiling
For an Austin purchase that a standard bank-statement program cannot carry, the super jumbo path applies the same deposit math at a larger balance, with the primary-residence ladder setting the leverage.
Take cash out inside the cash-out ladder
Cash-out in Austin, TX has its own rungs: leverage by band and occupancy, a proceeds cap above a certain leverage, and the bank portfolio program’s own treatment at the largest balances.
Refinance out of a bank or bridge loan
Move an Austin home out of a bank portfolio loan, a bridge loan, or a maturing structure into a deposit-qualified loan at the leverage the ladder allows, without tax returns.
Move with a departing residence
A relocating Austin, TX borrower who is selling one home while buying the next can be carried by the program that treats the departing residence as part of the file.
Size an Austin bank-statement file before requesting a quote.
Enter the occupancy, a price, an equity percentage, a credit tier, the statements you would use and the deposits they show for an Austin scenario. The calculator computes qualifying income the way the program does, reads the leverage cell the matrix allows for the occupancy, loan size and credit tier, and shows the housing budget the debt-to-income cap leaves. No rate or payment is shown or implied.
Austin bank-statement qualifier
Seeded with Austin’s market figures; every field is editable, and the leverage cell updates as occupancy, balance and credit tier change.
Illustrative starting assumptions: a $1,250,000 price set above Austin’s median owner-occupied home value to land on the program’s ladder, an equity position sized to the ladder, twelve months of deposits sized to carry a balance of that size, and modest other obligations (U.S. Census Bureau). Every field is editable; no rate or payment is shown.
Illustrative estimate only — not a Loan Estimate, approval, quote, or commitment to lend. No rate, payment, or cost is shown or implied. Qualifying income follows the program’s deposit method for the statements entered; leverage is read from the current program matrix for the occupancy, loan size and credit tier; the appraisal, the statements themselves, reserves, and full underwriting decide the actual figures. Consumer mortgage lending licensed in sixteen states.
Same borrower, three very different files.
Same Austin borrower, three files: deposits at scale, deposits within the standard ceiling, or the property’s rent — each reads income differently and stops at a different balance.
Deposits at scale, a standard bank-statement loan, or the property’s rent.
Qualifies on twelve or twenty-four months of deposits above the standard bank-statement ceiling, with leverage read from an occupancy-and-size matrix, super-jumbo overlays above the line, and a bank portfolio program carrying the largest bands.
The everyday bank-statement loan: deposit-qualified, with its own leverage ceilings by occupancy and a balance limit most Austin homes never approach — the super jumbo path begins where it stops. Inside the standard ceiling, Lendmire arranges bank statement loans in Texas.
Qualifies an investment property on its rent rather than the owner on deposits — business-purpose financing with its own ladder, for a leased rental rather than a home the borrower will live in. For a leased rental, see super jumbo DSCR loans in Austin.
If the deposits carry the payment and the balance is above the standard ceiling, super jumbo bank statement is the structure; if it is inside the ceiling, standard bank statement; if the property is a leased rental, super jumbo DSCR.
What to prepare for an Austin scenario review.
What a bank-statement scenario review usually starts with.
This is a general preparation guide, not a universal checklist. The selected lender may request additional information based on the loan size, occupancy, the statements, the business, the property, and reserves. Nothing here is legal or tax advice.
Local details that can change the loan.
The larger the balance, the more the details matter. In Austin, TX, these are the ones that most often change a file’s shape.
Use these checks to keep the Austin file clean and fundable.
Before requesting a quote on an Austin, TX home, confirm the occupancy ladder, the expense ratio the statements will carry, and the credit tier the best cell requires.
- Know the rung: place the balance on the ladder for the occupancy before the price is set.
- Count the deposits: choose the account and the months that produce the cleanest income.
- Read the overlays: confirm the credit floor and housing history above the line.
Occupancy and loan size decide the leverage
Occupancy chooses the ladder and the balance chooses the band; together they set the leverage ceiling and the credit floor for the best cell. A primary residence starts highest, a second home and an investment property a rung lower, and the larger bands step down with few exceptions — which is why the equity is planned before the price.
How the deposits are counted
Personal statements with business transfers count at full value; business statements carry an expense ratio set by the business type and employee count, or an accountant’s letter; the borrower must own a minimum share of the business, and the deposits must be consistent inside the window.
Overlays above the super-jumbo line
Above the overlay line — higher for a primary residence than for a second home or investment property — an Austin file carries a stricter credit floor, a spotless recent housing history, a longer seasoning window, no non-occupant co-borrowers, no rural property, and reserves that cash-out proceeds may not satisfy.
Interest-only and forty-year structures
An interest-only period is available through select programs at its own leverage cap and credit floor, on a forty-year structure with a ten-year interest-only window on the portfolio program, and on adjustable structures with a lower cap on the bank portfolio program; the ratio is measured on the interest-only payment.
Property type selects its own cell
Warrantable condominiums, non-warrantable condominiums, condotels, two-to-four-unit homes and rural property each carry their own leverage cell on the matrix; acreage is capped, rural property is excluded above a set balance, and a second home is limited to a single unit.
From Austin bank statements to a funded high-balance loan.
The path from Austin bank statements to a funded super jumbo loan runs through the ladder first and the paperwork second.
Place the balance
The first step is the ladder: where the Austin, TX balance lands for the occupancy, which cell the credit tier opens, and whether the structure should change to land on a better rung.
Count the deposits
The deposits become income by one of the program’s methods; Lendmire chooses the method that reads the Austin, TX business most fairly and packages the statements to support it.
Appraise and package
The appraisals set the value the ladder is applied to; the Austin, TX file is packaged in parallel — statements, credit, reserves, property — in the order the lender reads it.
Close and fund
Final underwriting reads the whole Austin, TX file against the matrix, and the loan funds at the leverage the occupancy, band and credit tier opened.
A brokerage built around self-employed borrowers.
Lendmire built its practice on borrowers whose tax returns understate their income, which is why the statement methods, the ladders, and the overlays are familiar ground rather than surprises.
Ladders, not guesses
Lendmire reads the matrix for an Austin balance before anything is ordered, so the equity and the structure are planned around the rung the file will actually land on.
The statements, read fairly
Deposits are only income once they are counted the program’s way; Lendmire counts them first, choosing the statement type, the months, and the expense method that read an Austin business fairly.
The right wholesale program
Not every wholesale lender carries a self-employed borrower past the standard ceiling, and the ones that do differ on leverage, overlays, and documentation; Lendmire knows which is which.
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Austin super jumbo bank statement loan FAQs
General answers for Austin borrowers weighing a super jumbo bank statement loan; the statements, the appraisal, and underwriting decide every actual figure.
How is leverage decided on a super jumbo bank statement loan in Austin?
By occupancy, loan size and credit tier. There is no single loan-to-value on the program; the ladder steps leverage down as the balance climbs, and the best cell in every band requires stronger credit.
How is my income calculated from bank statements?
The program adds the eligible deposits, removes transfers between the borrower’s own accounts and unusual deposits, applies the expense ratio where a business account is used, prorates to the ownership share, and divides by the statement months.
Can I take cash out of a high-value Austin home?
Inside the cash-out ladder for the occupancy, yes. Leverage steps down by band, and on the portfolio program the proceeds are capped above a set leverage — at or below it the proceeds are not capped. The bank portfolio program publishes no cap of its own, and state home-equity rules apply where they exist.
What happens in the portfolio program’s largest bands and above them?
An Austin balance in the portfolio program’s upper bands is read case by case before it is submitted; a balance above the program’s top band is a bank portfolio file, with its own credit floor, its own leverage, its own documentation window, and features the middle-band program does not offer.
Can I finance a second home this way?
Yes, on the second-home ladder — starting a rung below a primary residence and never above it, with its own credit cells, and limited to a single unit. The same statements qualify the file.
Is interest-only available?
Through select programs, yes: at its own leverage cap and credit floor, on a forty-year structure with a ten-year interest-only window on the portfolio program, and on adjustable structures with a lower cap on the bank portfolio program. The ratio is measured on the interest-only payment.
What expense ratio applies to business statements?
It depends on the business. The program’s fixed ratios rise with employee count and with a product business; an accountant’s letter can replace the fixed ratio where the real margin is better.
How long do I need to have been self-employed?
The program reads two years of self-employment history as standard, with the one-year alternatives where the prior work or training supports it.
What does Lendmire do on an Austin high-balance file?
The structural work: occupancy ladder, band, cell, expense method, overlays, appraisals, reserves, program. An Austin borrower brings the statements; Lendmire brings the ladder.
How much do I need in reserves?
Months of the full payment, stepping up by loan size, plus additional months for each financed property, more for a first-time investor, and more with a non-occupant co-borrower; the calculator shows the months the loan size calls for.
The statements have the income. Let us find the rung.
Start with the occupancy, the deposits, and the balance you have in mind. No credit pull or commitment is required to request an initial scenario review.
This guide covers Austin — for the statewide ladder, overlays, and scenarios, see Super Jumbo Bank Statement Loans in Texas, part of Lendmire’s super jumbo bank statement loan program.
Nearby markets in Texas: Pflugerville · Cedar Park · Round Rock · Leander · Kyle · Georgetown · Wimberley · San Marcos
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