Medical Office Feasibility Study in the Mayagüez, PR Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about medical office (physicians) lending in the Mayagüez, PR Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Mayagüez: medical office lending

Across Mayagüez, across FY2017 to FY2026, SBA logged 37 medical office loans, totalling $4.9 million in gross dollars. Within Mayagüez, medical office lending lands 1 of 39 among the asset classes; Mayagüez lands at 39 of 488 against all metro and micro areas for medical office loans. Mayagüez's location quotient is 9.22x, above the national share. A typical Mayagüez loan, measured by the median, is $100,000. The inner half of Mayagüez loans stretches from $25,000 to $180,000, and the median is which sits at 0.29x against the national class median. The 9.22x location quotient and the 0.29x median ratio pull in opposite directions: medical office leads the local asset classes, yet each loan is small, with a median of only $100,000. Practices here tend to borrow modest sums, and none of the loans is franchised.

Of Mayagüez's 37 loans, 32 are SBA 7(a), 5 SBA 504. The franchise share of Mayagüez loans is 0.00%, which means no franchise brands show up in the Mayagüez record. Among the Mayagüez holders one holder holds $951,000 across 5 SBA 504 loans, and 26 SBA 7(a) loans worth $2.8 million are held by Banco Popular de Puerto Rico. Mayagüez's holder rows record present holders only. Mayagüez borrowers gain no evidence of institution requirements here. Across counties: Mayagüez Municipio, PR has 24 loans.

Mayagüez: years, floors and limits

Mayagüez can show only some years: FY2023 records 7 loans totalling $1.0 million; FY2024 has 11 loans valued at $1.9 million; FY2025 records 6 loans valued at $843,000. In FY2020, FY2022 and FY2026, Mayagüez records 0 loans and $0. Mayagüez's FY2026 is a complete fiscal year. The Mayagüez years not shown: FY2017 to FY2019 and FY2021. The years held back for Mayagüez are not zeros. At least 16.1% of Mayagüez's approvals through FY2024 were cancelled after approval. That Mayagüez rate of 16.1% is a floor, not final. The ceiling for Mayagüez is withheld. The charge-off rate in Mayagüez: withheld, fewer than 30 loans in all. Mayagüez uses Loan Analytics' own cut-off. Mayagüez's FY2017 to FY2021 group is short. The July 2023 list defines Mayagüez. Mayagüez assigns each loan by county. Mayagüez leaves out unmatched loans.

Mayagüez: what to test

Plans for a Mayagüez medical office need a study that shows where the practice's patients come from and which physicians already see them, then price the build-out and equipment against loans that cluster between $25,000 and $180,000. A project well above that band will need its own support. Revenue ought to be built visit by visit with a slow first year, because a cancellation floor of 16.1% shows that plans do fall apart between approval and funding. Payment coverage and the appraisal both rest on that revenue build.

SBA medical office (physicians) loans in the Mayagüez, PR Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202637
Gross dollars approved$4.9 million
Median loan$100,000
Middle half of loans, from$25,000
Middle half of loans, to$180,000
SBA 7(a) loans32
SBA 504 loans5
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for medical office (physicians) loans39 of 488
Rank of medical office (physicians) among the classes in this area1 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)9.22x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.29x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)16.1%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)withheld
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)withheld

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

SBA medical office (physicians) loans approved in the Mayagüez, PR Metro Area, by fiscal year

02.557.51012.5FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2020: 0Loans, FY2022: 0Loans, FY2023: 7Loans, FY2024: 11Loans, FY2025: 6Loans, FY2026: 0
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY2018withheldwithheld
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY20200$0
FY2021withheldwithheld
FY20220$0
FY20237$1.0 million
FY202411$1.9 million
FY20256$843,000
FY20260$0

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Corp. Financiamiento Empresarial del Comercio y Comunidades (COFECC)5$951,000
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Banco Popular de Puerto Rico26$2.8 million

Lenders with 5 or more loans here; a lender with fewer is not listed, and loans SBA or a receiver holds are counted but never listed as a lender.

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
Mayagüez Municipio, PR24

Counties with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are not listed.

Metro is the CBSA (metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area) of the loan's project county, July 2023 delineation (OMB Bulletin 23-01). The county is matched by name (manifests/ld2/county-cbsa-map.csv); a loan whose county cannot be placed in a 2023 CBSA is left out of every metro.

A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; areas from the U.S. Census Bureau CBSA delineation, July 2023 (OMB Bulletin 23-01); Loan Analytics metro cell MA-32420-C32.

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