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Which North Carolina Banks Are Actually Growing Their CRE Book — And Who To Call

63 institutions qualified in North Carolina: at least one branch in the state (FDIC SOD 2025) and a CRE book of $100m or more. Figures below are institution-level and unprorated — a bank lending in multiple states shows its full CRE book on every state page where it qualifies, not a state-prorated share.

Largest CRE Books, Headquartered in North Carolina

10 of 19 North Carolina-headquartered institutions.

#InstitutionCRE bookContact
1Bank of America, National Association
Charlotte · FDIC Cert #3510
$55.21bnContact available
2Truist Bank
Charlotte · FDIC Cert #9846
$33.24bnContact available
3First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company
Raleigh · FDIC Cert #11063
$21.97bnContact available
4First Bank
Southern Pines · FDIC Cert #15019
$4.41bnContact available
5Live Oak Banking Company
Wilmington · FDIC Cert #58665
$3.13bnContact available
6First Carolina Bank
Rocky Mount · FDIC Cert #35530
$1.80bnContact available
7HomeTrust Bank
Asheville · FDIC Cert #27677
$1.39bnContact available
8The Fidelity Bank
Fuquay Varina · FDIC Cert #11507
$1.18bnContact available
9Southern Bank and Trust Company
Mount Olive · FDIC Cert #15359
$899mContact available
10Providence Bank
Rocky Mount · FDIC Cert #58239
$750mContact available

Fastest Growing

Top 10 by organic growth. Percent organic growth over four quarters, with a $250m prior-quarter book floor; shrinking institutions are excluded.

#InstitutionOrganic growthContact
1KS Bank, Inc.
Smithfield · FDIC Cert #29771
+30.1% +$79mContact available
2First Capital Bank
Charleston · FDIC Cert #34966
+29.2% +$95mNo contact yet
3Bank of Tennessee
Kingsport · FDIC Cert #21573
+25.1% +$172mContact available
4Live Oak Banking Company
Wilmington · FDIC Cert #58665
+18.2% +$482mContact available
5Coastal Carolina National Bank
Myrtle Beach · FDIC Cert #58864
+16.5% +$51mContact available
6Peoples Bank
Newton · FDIC Cert #5956
+14.5% +$59mContact available
7First Bank
Southern Pines · FDIC Cert #15019
+14.2% +$547mContact available
8Capital Bank, National Association
Rockville · FDIC Cert #35278
+14.0% +$137mContact available
9The Park National Bank
Newark · FDIC Cert #6653
+11.2% +$220mContact available
10Benchmark Community Bank
Kenbridge · FDIC Cert #20484
+10.2% +$43mContact available

National and Regional Lenders with Branches Here

Top 20 by CRE book size.

#InstitutionCRE bookContact
1Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
Sioux Falls · FDIC Cert #3511
$103.80bnContact available
2Bank of America, National Association
Charlotte · FDIC Cert #3510
$55.21bnContact available
3U.S. Bank National Association
Cincinnati · FDIC Cert #6548
$41.71bnContact available
4PNC Bank, National Association
Wilmington · FDIC Cert #6384
$36.76bnContact available
5Truist Bank
Charlotte · FDIC Cert #9846
$33.24bnContact available
6Flagstar Bank, National Association
Hicksville · FDIC Cert #32541
$32.76bnContact available
7Pinnacle Bank
Nashville · FDIC Cert #35583
$27.34bnContact available
8The Huntington National Bank
Columbus · FDIC Cert #6560
$24.60bnContact available
9TD Bank, National Association
Wilmington · FDIC Cert #18409
$23.57bnContact available
10First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company
Raleigh · FDIC Cert #11063
$21.97bnContact available
11Fifth Third Bank, National Association
Cincinnati · FDIC Cert #6672
$21.58bnContact available
12SouthState Bank, National Association
Winter Haven · FDIC Cert #33555
$20.42bnContact available
13Bank OZK
Little Rock · FDIC Cert #110
$17.29bnContact available
14Old National Bank
Evansville · FDIC Cert #3832
$17.06bnContact available
15First Horizon Bank
Memphis · FDIC Cert #4977
$13.73bnContact available
16United Bank
Fairfax · FDIC Cert #22858
$12.03bnContact available
17Atlantic Union Bank
Richmond City · FDIC Cert #34589
$11.59bnContact available
18Regions Bank
Birmingham · FDIC Cert #12368
$10.87bnContact available
19Banc of California
Los Angeles · FDIC Cert #24045
$10.39bnContact available
20Ameris Bank
Atlanta · FDIC Cert #20504
$8.93bnContact available

National institutions

These institutions also clear the state’s qualifying population test — at least one branch presence and a CRE book of $100m or more — but are not evaluated for state relationship-lending purposes and carry no contact: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association (FDIC Cert #628).


Sources. FDIC Call Reports and FDIC Summary of Deposits. The qualifying population excludes de novo institutions, excludes any quarter carrying a >40% QoQ reversal in its CRE book, and requires a CRE book of $100m or more — no deposit-share floor is applied to the qualifying population. The page carries two CRE book size rankings drawn from that same qualifying population, on the same basis: one ranking the state’s largest CRE lenders regardless of where they are headquartered, one ranking the largest lenders headquartered in the state. An institution may appear in both. Growth is percent organic growth over four quarters (30 June 2025 → 30 June 2026), excluding growth attributable to an acquisition, subject to a $250m prior-quarter book floor; institutions with negative organic growth are excluded from the growth list. Institutions with a prior-quarter CRE book above $25bn are also excluded from the growth list — growth at that scale is a national balance-sheet movement, not lending concentrated in any one state, and would otherwise crowd out real local growth on thin-population states. This ceiling applies to the growth list only; the same institutions still appear on the CRE book size rankings above, which rank nationally by design.

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