Farm Credit Services of Western Arkansas, FLCA, a rural Arkansas lender of conventional home-purchase loans, grew its lending by half in 2025, faster than more than nine in ten similar lenders.
A sharp rebound
It made 192 loans, up 51% on the year. Similar lenders, independent non-bank lenders making between half and twice as many loans, saw lending fall 1%, while the whole market grew 10%. The rise follows a slump to 127 loans in 2024, its fewest in the record since 2018, and leaves it below the 325 of 2020.
Conventional loans to buy homes
Every loan was conventional; peers put 16.3% into loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration. Purchases were 69.8% of its lending and refinances 22.9%. Its typical loan, $240,000, was smaller than peers' $325,000.
Rooted in rural Arkansas
Its biggest market is non-metro Arkansas, where it ranks 28 of 459 lenders. It gained share in Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers this year. Arvest Bank leads in Little Rock and Hot Springs, two of its other metro markets, where its own share held steady.
No higher-priced loans
None of its loans in 2025 were higher-priced (carrying a rate well above the average for similar loans), against 1.8% at peers. Its typical rate, 6.60%, sat near the middle of similar lenders.
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
192 loans in 2025, against a peak of 325 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Farm Credit Services of Western Arkansas, FLCA took 282 applications in 2025.
69.8% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; all were conventional loans.
Purchase 69.8% · Refinance 22.9% · Home improvement 6.8% · Other 0.5% Conventional 100.0% · of 192 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
2 states, 5 metros, 42 counties
State
Loans
Share
Arkansas
188
97.9%
Oklahoma
4
2.1%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers
33
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway
16
Fort Smith
15
Texarkana
7
Hot Springs
5
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300LAQ3M8E5I08F43
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
4531575
2013–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
7710697350
Established 1 January 2001. Reported under HMDA 2012-2025.
Farm Credit Services of Western Arkansas, FLCA's data
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