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2025 HMDA data · retrieved November 11, 2026

Who Lends on Investment Properties in Minnesota? 2025 HMDA Data

In 2025, 406 lenders originated 5,990 closed-end mortgages on 1–4 unit investment properties in Minnesota, totaling $1.51B. The 25 most active wrote 38.2% of them. Figures are computed from federal HMDA loan-level data published by the CFPB, retrieved November 11, 2026.

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Who lends on investment properties in Minnesota?

These are the 25 institutions that reported the most originated, closed-end loans on 1–4 unit investment property in Minnesota for 2025, ranked by loan count. Volume is the reported dollar total, average loan size is volume divided by count, and purchase share is the proportion of each lender's loans made to buy rather than refinance. The busiest, Kiavi Funding, Inc., reported 245 of them.

Most active investment-property lenders in Minnesota, 2025 HMDA
LenderLoansVolumeAvg loanPurchase share
Kiavi Funding, Inc.245$64.0M$261K89.0%
United Wholesale Mortgage234$53.5M$229K59.0%
Bridgewater Bank149$45.9M$308K91.3%
Bell Bank146$35.4M$242K82.2%
Rocket Mortgage, LLC112$26.9M$240K60.7%
Frandsen Bank & Trust108$23.9M$222K67.6%
CROSSCOUNTRY MORTGAGE, INC.102$24.7M$242K77.5%
PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC101$31.6M$313K77.2%
Coulee Bank94$21.3M$227K95.7%
LENNAR MORTGAGE, LLC79$21.6M$273K100.0%
RF RENOVO MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC79$20.2M$256K84.8%
Luminate Bank77$23.2M$302K71.4%
Old National Bank71$17.1M$241K36.6%
Granite Bank66$20.2M$307K78.8%
Royal Credit Union64$17.5M$274K59.4%
National Bank of Commerce63$12.9M$205K46.0%
TRUSTONE FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION62$10.7M$173K37.1%
Merchants Bank, National Association60$12.9M$215K60.0%
MAGNIFI FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION59$14.1M$240K44.1%
U.S. Bank National Association58$13.7M$237K72.4%
HomeTown Bank53$15.8M$297K64.2%
THE LOAN STORE, INC.53$14.4M$273K52.8%
Sunrise Banks, National Association53$9.9M$187K88.7%
Security Bank & Trust Company49$15.0M$306K57.1%
Alerus Financial, National Association49$12.0M$245K77.6%

All 25 rows, 2025 HMDA loan-level data (CFPB/FFIEC Data Browser), retrieved November 11, 2026. Download the MN dataset as CSV — every figure in this table, plus each lender's Legal Entity Identifier.

How was this data filtered?

Four constraints, applied to the full Minnesota extract. The loan had to be originated — applications, approvals that never closed and withdrawn files are excluded. The property had to be 1–4 units. The occupancy had to be investment, not owner-occupied or second home. And the loan had to be closed-end: open-end lines of credit and reverse mortgages are dropped.

The occupancy filter is the one that takes work. The Data Browser API accepts an occupancy parameter and then ignores it, so the filter has to be applied locally to the whole state extract rather than requested from the server. An analysis that trusts the parameter silently includes owner-occupied lending and reports numbers several times too large. The full definition is on the methodology page.

How concentrated is Minnesota's investor lending market?

The 25 lenders in the table above wrote 2,286 of Minnesota's 5,990 investor loans — 38.2%. The top five alone wrote 886, or 14.8%. The other 381 reporting lenders divided the remainder.

The average Minnesota investor loan on this vintage was $251,000 — $1.51B across 5,990 loans. Concentration is worth reading alongside the purchase-share column: a lender doing mostly purchase business and one doing mostly refinances are competing for different files even at the same rank.

Minnesota investor lending by county

The same 2025 HMDA rows, by county. A county page exists for each county with at least 100 investor loans and 25 reporting lenders; each has its own lender table and CSV.

Minnesota investor lending by county, 2025 HMDA: loans, reporting lenders, volume, county page and CSV
CountyLoansLendersVolumeCounty pageCSV
Hennepin County1,532218$457.5MDSCR loans in Hennepin CountyCSV
Ramsey County583139$145.7MDSCR loans in Ramsey CountyCSV
Dakota County421129$106.8MDSCR loans in Dakota CountyCSV
Anoka County306104$80.4MDSCR loans in Anoka CountyCSV
St. Louis County28378$53.2MDSCR loans in St. Louis CountyCSV
Washington County27186$81.0MDSCR loans in Washington CountyCSV
Olmsted County24871$61.7MDSCR loans in Olmsted CountyCSV
Stearns County15657$30.5MDSCR loans in Stearns CountyCSV
Clay County12639$25.5MDSCR loans in Clay CountyCSV
Scott County12071$35.0MDSCR loans in Scott CountyCSV
Blue Earth County10737$19.2MDSCR loans in Blue Earth CountyCSV
Crow Wing County10552$30.3MDSCR loans in Crow Wing CountyCSV
Wright County10357$27.6MDSCR loans in Wright CountyCSV
Carver County9854$31.7MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Winona County7126$11.2MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Sherburne County6239$18.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Rice County5726$11.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Mower County5325$6.8MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Otter Tail County5326$12.5MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Cass County4936$20.6MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Mille Lacs County4930$9.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Becker County4516$17.2MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Isanti County4235$9.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Carlton County3815$6.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Chisago County3825$11.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Goodhue County3830$9.0MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Benton County3720$7.5MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Nicollet County3515$5.7MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
McLeod County3418$7.6MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Kandiyohi County3319$9.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Douglas County3221$6.3MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Freeborn County3217$3.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Steele County3119$4.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Le Sueur County3020$6.3MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Polk County3014$4.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Meeker County2715$6.5MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Morrison County2620$5.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Brown County2512$4.2MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Itasca County2516$5.4MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Nobles County2511$4.0MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Houston County249$3.8MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Pine County2416$7.0MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Todd County2314$4.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Cook County2119$9.0MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Beltrami County2013$3.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Fillmore County1914$2.7MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Lyon County1912$2.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Pennington County186$2.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Hubbard County1614$5.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Pipestone County166$1.5MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Wabasha County1610$2.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Lake County1512$5.2MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Martin County159$1.8MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Renville County159$2.0MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Dodge County1410$2.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Sibley County1410$2.3MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Waseca County1410$1.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Rock County128$1.2MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Kanabec County119$1.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Wadena County1110$1.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Aitkin County1010$2.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Watonwan County104$1.0MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Faribault County99$1.0MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Big Stone County84$2.0MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Pope County87$1.5MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Redwood County86$0.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Cottonwood County72$0.5MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Lake of the Woods County74$2.0MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Koochiching County63$0.9MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Stevens County64$0.4MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Swift County66$0.4MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Yellow Medicine County64$0.4MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Clearwater County53$0.7MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Grant County55$0.5MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Mahnomen County53$1.2MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Murray County55$0.4MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Chippewa County44$0.4MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Jackson County41$0.6MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Lincoln County33$0.3MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Roseau County32$0.2MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Kittson County21$0.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Lac qui Parle County21$0.2MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Marshall County22$0.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Norman County22$0.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Wilkin County22$0.3MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Red Lake County11$0.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
Traverse County11$0.1MUnder 100 loans or 25 lenders—
No county code40—$10.9M——
Minnesota total5,990406$1.51B

Lenders are counted per county; a lender active in several counties counts once in each, so the county lender counts do not sum to the state's.

What does this data not show?

Three gaps, and they matter more than the rankings.

  1. Temporary financing is exempt from reporting. Fix-and-flip, bridge and most hard-money lending never enters HMDA, so a lender's position here reflects its reportable closed-end activity, not its whole book. Some of the busiest investor lenders in Minnesota are largely invisible in this table by rule.
  2. Small lenders do not file. An institution under roughly 25 closed-end loans a year sits below the reporting threshold. Local private lenders and the smallest community banks are absent by design, not by omission.
  3. The data is annual, and it moves. 2025 is the current vintage. The CFPB rebuilds a published file as institutions resubmit, so counts drift upward for months after release — which is why the retrieval date is stated everywhere the figures are.

Where does this data come from?

The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requires covered institutions to report every mortgage they originate, loan by loan. The CFPB publishes those filings through the FFIEC Data Browser. This page reads the 2025 vintage, retrieved November 11, 2026, filtered as described above and aggregated by Legal Entity Identifier. Lender names are the names on file with the CFPB at retrieval, which is why one may differ from the brand a borrower recognises.

Federal government data, public domain. $1505.8M of Minnesota lending sits behind this page and every figure on it is reproducible from the published CSV. All 50 states and DC are indexed on the methodology page, and the same filers are ranked across all of them together on who lends on investment properties across all 50 states and DC.

How do I reach Dominick Prevete?

Call or text (908) 220-6404 — Dominick takes these calls himself — or email dominick@dominickprevete.com. For written DSCR loan terms, use the Instant Term Sheet at dominickprevete.com/instant-term-sheet.

Researching the market is one job; financing a building is another. If you are buying or refinancing in Minnesota rather than studying who lends there, the Minnesota investor financing page covers programs, terms and how a file gets placed.