Presidential Bank is a nationwide savings bank that specialises in government-backed loans, about two in five of its loans, and it grew 21% in 2025.
A government-loan specialist
FHA loans (insured by the Federal Housing Administration) were 21.7% of its loans against a typical 4.0%, and VA loans (guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs) 18.4% against 0.5%. Conventional loans were 58.1%, the lowest share among similar lenders (savings institutions making between half and twice as many loans). Home purchase was 87.2% of its lending, across 47 states.
Growth above peers, below its 2020 peak
Originations rose 21% to 3,063, higher than about two-thirds of similar lenders, whose typical growth was 14%; the whole market grew 10%. That is still about half the 5,942 loans it made in 2020.
More lending in LMI and majority-minority areas
Low- and moderate-income (LMI) tracts took 19.8% of its loans against 15.0%, and majority-minority tracts 24.6% against 13.0%, both higher than about nine in ten similar lenders. Its government-loan mix and its lending in the Washington, Atlanta and Richmond areas could both contribute.
Price follows the product
Higher-priced loans (a rate well above the average for similar loans) were 2.8% against 1.1%. Its large FHA share, whose mortgage insurance raises the cost, and manufactured homes at 2.6% of loans against 0.7% could account for most of that difference; its typical rate, 6.62%, is near the middle of similar lenders. It turned down 9.3% of first-lien refinance applications on owner-occupied homes, lower than about three in four similar lenders.
Questions the data can answer next
How do its FHA and VA volumes break down by metro, and which competitors lead government lending in Richmond and Virginia Beach?
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
3,063 loans in 2025, against a peak of 5,942 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Presidential Bank took 3,983 applications in 2025.
87.2% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 58.1% were Conventional.
Purchase 87.2% · Refinance 12.7% · Other 0.1% Conventional 58.1% · FHA 21.7% · VA 18.4% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 1.8% · of 3,063 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
47 states, 188 metros, 526 counties
State
Loans
Share
Virginia
809
26.4%
Georgia
678
22.1%
Maryland
395
12.9%
North Carolina
215
7.0%
Florida
157
5.1%
South Carolina
110
3.6%
Tennessee
86
2.8%
North Dakota
80
2.6%
Alabama
75
2.4%
New York
62
2.0%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell
322
Richmond
288
Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk
238
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson
157
Arlington-Alexandria-Reston
141
Frederick-Gaithersburg-Bethesda
140
Marietta
90
Brunswick-St. Simons
62
Wilmington
61
Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor
48
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
54930078TNN7GKZ7NU89
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
538473
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
48186
1990–2010
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
1708186
2011–2017
Established 15 April 1985. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
Presidential 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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