NFM is a home-purchase lender that ranks third in Columbus and fourth in Baltimore, with its share edging up in both.
Third in Columbus, fourth in Baltimore
It ranked third of 596 lenders in Columbus, Ohio, behind The Huntington National Bank and United Wholesale Mortgage, with 3.9% of the market, up from 3.8%. In Baltimore-Columbia-Towson it ranked fourth of 592, with 2.8%, up from 2.7%. In its other large markets, Washington, Philadelphia and Seattle, it ranks between 19th and 28th.
Purchase loans, somewhat larger than peers'
Home purchases made up 87.4% of its loans and refinancing 10.9%. Its typical loan was $345,000, larger than at about four in five similar lenders (independent non-bank lenders making between half and twice as many loans), whose typical loan was $285,000. Its mix of conventional, FHA and VA loans is close to theirs.
Very few applications turned down
On owner-occupied first-lien applications it denied 2.1% of home-purchase and 2.6% of refinance applications, among the lowest tenth of similar lenders, whose typical rates were 8.0% and 16.2%.
Growth in line with the market
Originations rose 10% to 18,920, the same as the whole market and a little below the 14% typical for similar lenders. Loans in LMI (low- and moderate-income) areas were 21.6%, near the middle of similar lenders.
Questions the data can answer next
Which counties in Columbus and Baltimore account for its share gains, and which competitors lost ground?
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
18,920 loans in 2025, against a peak of 27,359 in 2021.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. NFM took 24,275 applications in 2025.
87.4% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 65.8% were Conventional.
Purchase 87.4% · Refinance 10.9% · Other 1.7% Conventional 65.8% · FHA 24.4% · VA 9.6% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 0.2% · of 18,920 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
48 states, 300 metros, 963 counties
State
Loans
Share
Ohio
3,308
17.5%
Maryland
2,255
11.9%
Florida
2,000
10.6%
Virginia
1,310
6.9%
North Carolina
1,137
6.0%
Texas
1,055
5.6%
New Jersey
1,051
5.6%
Arizona
897
4.7%
Washington
843
4.5%
Colorado
659
3.5%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Columbus
2,152
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson
1,402
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler
866
Camden
814
Arlington-Alexandria-Reston
623
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford
525
Providence-Warwick
509
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
495
Washington
376
Richmond
375
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300MCIFZSDHUT8X63
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
3882805
2010–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
7522102740
Established 3 March 1998. Reported under HMDA 2004-2025.
Mergers, name changes, data editions and corrections: NFM's data.
The data and the software behind these pages
NFM's data
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NFM 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.
Jenner runs programs written in the SAS language. It drew every chart on these pages and fitted the fair-lending model, PROC GLIMMIX on 3.5 million applications. Run the programs that come with the data, or your own.