University Bank has grown from a small Ann Arbor lender into a national home-purchase lender, with 2,426 loans in 2025 against 41 in 2020, and Florida is now its largest state.
From 41 loans to 2,426 in five years
It made 22 to 41 loans a year from 2018 to 2021, 456 in 2022 and 1,930 in 2023. In 2025 it grew 26%, against 12% at similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans), faster than about four in five of them. It now lends in 194 metros in 45 states; purchases are 71.8% of its loans.
Rising in the Florida Panhandle
In Tallahassee, entered in 2022, its share rose from 3.5% to 5.7%, ranking 3 of 372. In Pensacola, entered in 2020, it rose from 3.1% to 3.8%, ranking 5 of 515. In Ann Arbor it ranks 11 of 310.
A government-loan lender
19.8% of its loans were FHA (insured by the Federal Housing Administration) and 17.3% VA (guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs), against 3.5% and 1.0% at similar lenders; its VA share is higher than at nearly all of them. Its typical loan, $305,000, is higher than at nine in ten.
Few applications turned down
It turned down 2.5% of first-lien home-purchase applications on owner-occupied homes and 7.0% of refinance applications, against 6.6% and 17.5% at similar lenders, both among the lowest tenth. Its typical rate, 6.50%, is lower than at about three-quarters of them.
Questions the data can answer next
Which Florida counties account for its Tallahassee and Pensacola gains, and against which competitors?
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
2,426 loans in 2025, its most in any year since 2018.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. University Bank took 2,997 applications in 2025.
71.8% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 61.3% were Conventional.
Purchase 71.8% · Refinance 23.7% · Other 2.7% · Home improvement 1.8% Conventional 61.3% · FHA 19.8% · VA 17.3% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 1.6% · of 2,426 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
45 states, 194 metros, 420 counties
State
Loans
Share
Florida
1,083
44.6%
Michigan
505
20.8%
Indiana
245
10.1%
California
67
2.8%
North Carolina
57
2.3%
Georgia
47
1.9%
Tennessee
44
1.8%
South Carolina
43
1.8%
Alabama
27
1.1%
Arizona
25
1.0%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent
423
Tallahassee
360
Ann Arbor
220
Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin
175
Lake County-Porter County-Jasper County
145
Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills
141
Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia
61
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin
26
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia
23
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell
20
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300IFOE4SCP384147
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
137652
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
314587
1997–2017
Established 8 May 1908. Reported under HMDA 1997-2025.
University 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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