Flagstar Bank leans on government-backed loans far more than similar lenders, and its originations fell 67% in 2025 while similar lenders grew 4%.
Originations fell further than at any similar lender
Similar lenders are national banks with between half and twice its originations. It made 9,656 loans, against 29,443 in 2024 and 121,216 in 2020, the steepest fall among them; the whole market grew 10%. Loans bought from other lenders fell to 144 from 16,915. The data does not say why; a choice to scale back mortgage lending is one possibility.
A government-loan lender among conventional peers
FHA loans (insured by the Federal Housing Administration) were 17.7% of its loans, against 2.1% at similar lenders, the highest among them. VA loans (guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs) were 5.8%, against 0.9%, and RHS loans (guaranteed by the Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service) 0.7%, also the highest.
More lending in LMI and majority-minority areas
19.4% of its loans were in LMI (low- and moderate-income) areas, higher than about nine in ten similar lenders, and 24.3% in majority-minority areas, higher than more than eight in ten. Its LMI borrower share, 28.4%, was near the middle.
Questions the data can answer next
Which counties and loan types account for the fall in its originations from 2024 to 2025?
Similar lenders: same lender type, originations between half and twice the lender's in the data year.
Written from the 2025 HMDA data and checked figure by figure against it.
FIG. 1 — LOANS ORIGINATED, 2018–2025
9,656 loans in 2025, against a peak of 121,216 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Flagstar Bank took 19,118 applications in 2025.
63.9% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 75.8% were Conventional.
Purchase 63.9% · Refinance 29.3% · Other 4.6% · Home improvement 2.2% Conventional 75.8% · FHA 17.7% · VA 5.8% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 0.7% · of 9,656 loans. Purchase: buying a home. Refinance: replacing an existing mortgage, including cash-out. FHA: insured by the Federal Housing Administration. VA: guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Conventional: neither.
SOURCE: FFIEC HMDA 2025, LOANS ORIGINATED
Where it lends, 2025
51 states, 334 metros, 1,165 counties
State
Loans
Share
Michigan
2,677
27.7%
Texas
943
9.8%
California
934
9.7%
Florida
737
7.6%
Indiana
410
4.2%
New York
367
3.8%
Georgia
351
3.6%
Arizona
303
3.1%
Ohio
300
3.1%
New Jersey
204
2.1%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills
975
Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia
561
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
312
Lansing-East Lansing
306
New York-Jersey City-White Plains
229
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario
224
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler
206
Fort Wayne
164
Dallas-Plano-Irving
154
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale
138
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
SS1TRMSN6BRNMOREEV51
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
146672
2004–2021
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
694904
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
48412
1990–2010
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
9146672
2011–2017
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
1708412
2015–2015
Established 20 May 1987. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
Flagstar Bank and its peers, 2018–2025: every application in the HMDA data, cleaned and corrected, as Parquet files, with the Jenner programs that made these pages.
Every mortgage application reported under HMDA from 1990 to 2025, cleaned and corrected, every lender followed across name changes and mergers, with the market-share and fair-lending tables behind these pages and the Jenner programs that built them: the warehouse and the datamart, as Parquet files.
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