GreenStone Farm Credit Services, FLCA is a conventional-only lender rooted in rural Michigan, and in 2025 it grew 21%, far faster than similar lenders.
No government-backed loans
Every loan it made was conventional, against 67.4% among similar lenders, here independent non-bank lenders making between half and twice as many loans. Manufactured homes were 4.9% of its loans, against 0.9% for peers, a higher share than at nine in ten of them. Its typical loan, $275,000, was smaller than the peers' $315,000.
Faster growth than its peers
Loans rose from 997 to 1,202, up 21%, while similar lenders grew 3% and the whole market 10%. That was its highest count since 2021, though still below the 1,694 of 2020. Purchases made up 68.6% of its lending, refinances 13.6%.
Strongest outside the big cities
It ranks 9 of 606 lenders in non-metro Michigan and 18 of 333 in Lansing-East Lansing, where its share edged up to 1.1%. In Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood it ranks 33 of 436. It has lent in Michigan since 2001.
Few lower-income borrowers
Only 9.4% of its loans went to low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers, against 28.2% at peers, among the lowest tenth. Its share in majority-minority neighborhoods was 0.2%. Its largely rural markets and its lack of government-backed loans may account for both.
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
1,202 loans in 2025, against a peak of 1,694 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. GreenStone Farm Credit Services, FLCA took 1,428 applications in 2025.
68.6% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; all were conventional loans.
Purchase 68.6% · Other 15.6% · Refinance 13.6% · Home improvement 2.2% Conventional 100.0% · of 1,202 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
7 states, 21 metros, 103 counties
State
Loans
Share
Michigan
1,090
90.7%
Wisconsin
106
8.8%
Missouri
2
0.2%
Colorado
1
0.1%
North Carolina
1
0.1%
South Carolina
1
0.1%
Virginia
1
0.1%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills
131
Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood
124
Lansing-East Lansing
71
Traverse City
48
Jackson
42
Monroe
38
Ann Arbor
37
Flint
35
Green Bay
23
Battle Creek
22
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300461TECLDDGNF98
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
3173727
2010–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
7381358859
Established 1 July 2000. Reported under HMDA 2001-2025.
GreenStone Farm Credit Services, FLCA 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.