StonehamBank, a Co-Operative Bank, makes big loans in the Boston area: its typical loan in 2025 was more than twice that of similar lenders.
Boston-sized loans
Its typical loan was $555,000, against $245,000 at similar lenders (savings institutions making between half and twice as many loans), larger than nine in ten of them. Some 29.5% were jumbo loans (larger than the conforming limit), against 2.3% at similar lenders and up from 17.4%. So its 78 loans came to $76.8 million.
Growing from a low base
Loans rose 30%, from 60, faster than four in five similar lenders, whose typical growth was 5%. The bank made 559 loans in 2020 and 194 in 2018.
Fewer lower-income borrowers
Some 20.0% of its loans went to low- and moderate-income borrowers, down from 33.3% and below the 24.7% at similar lenders. Its larger loans may draw buyers with higher incomes. Majority-minority neighborhoods took 10.3% of its loans, against 7.1% at similar lenders.
A small bank in a big market
It ranks 129 of 664 lenders in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, where it has lent since 1992. Citizens Bank and Leader Bank lead that market. Home improvement made up 9.0% of its lending.
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
78 loans in 2025, against a peak of 559 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. StonehamBank, a Co-Operative Bank took 116 applications in 2025.
66.7% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 97.4% were conventional loans.
Purchase 66.7% · Refinance 23.1% · Home improvement 9.0% · Other 1.3% Conventional 97.4% · VA 2.6% · of 78 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
3 states, 5 metros, 9 counties
State
Loans
Share
Massachusetts
71
91.0%
Rhode Island
6
7.7%
New Hampshire
1
1.3%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Cambridge-Newton-Framingham
59
Boston
10
Providence-Warwick
7
Rockingham County-Strafford County
1
Worcester
1
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300M2W1M6WRAK9S59
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
954279
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
326559
1992–2017
Established 1 January 1887. Reported under HMDA 1992-2025.
StonehamBank, a Co-Operative 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.
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