Feasibility Study Data for the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about lending in the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC Metro Area, every asset class together, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

How big the Pinehurst-Southern Pines record is

For Pinehurst-Southern Pines, SBA's own files hold 129 approvals over FY2017 through FY2026, worth $111.3 million in gross approvals. Pinehurst-Southern Pines stands against all metro and micro areas, on volume, at rank 411 of 928. Half of Pinehurst-Southern Pines loans, the middle ones, runs from $150,000 to $912,000, about a median near $377,000; and the median sits at 1.81x the national median. By program, Pinehurst-Southern Pines shows 124 loans in 7(a) against 5 in 504. Franchises make up 20.9% of the record.

Pinehurst-Southern Pines: classes and places

Also, across the business classes we name for Pinehurst-Southern Pines, hotel and motel stands on top with 10 loans, and then full-service restaurant with 6. Beyond that, another 83 loans in Pinehurst-Southern Pines belong to no named class. Separately, the whole record in Pinehurst-Southern Pines sits in Moore County, NC, at 129 loans, which makes a study at a site here a matter of one county only.

Pinehurst-Southern Pines: who holds loans

Holders shown for Pinehurst-Southern Pines come from SBA's archived Pinehurst-Southern Pines records of the 129 loans in Pinehurst-Southern Pines, whoever holds or held them; the records show each position and offer nothing on lender standards. Next, in the 7(a) program near Moore County, NC, SBA lists Live Oak Banking Company ($19.9 million across 16 loans); after it, The Huntington National Bank, with 8 loans for $2.3 million. In the 504 program near Moore County, NC, the holders include Business Expansion Funding Corporation (5 loans, $6.5 million). An applicant in Pinehurst-Southern Pines can ask the Pinehurst-Southern Pines lender Live Oak Banking Company or other Pinehurst-Southern Pines holders near Moore County, NC what paperwork it wants, then shape the Pinehurst-Southern Pines study around those requests.

Pinehurst-Southern Pines: loss floors and years

Looking at Pinehurst-Southern Pines approvals from FY2017 through FY2024, at least 9.4% were cancelled after approval in Pinehurst-Southern Pines, and that is a floor; the full Pinehurst-Southern Pines rate can only be higher. Separately, no charge-off rate for Pinehurst-Southern Pines is not printed on the page, because too few Pinehurst-Southern Pines loans funded. That absence, near Moore County, NC, should never be read as no losses. Besides, on the calendar, Pinehurst-Southern Pines crested in FY2023 at 17 loans and $22.7 million, and bottomed out in FY2022 at 5 loans and $4.5 million.

Pinehurst-Southern Pines: testing a project

Around Moore County, NC, demand comes first: who works in Moore County, NC, who visits from nearby, set against Pinehurst-Southern Pines overall, and how much room 10 hotel and motel loans leave. On cost: $377,000 is the Pinehurst-Southern Pines median and $150,000 to $912,000 the middle half, so a Moore County, NC site should cost itself against this $377,000 benchmark. Separately, debt service: Pinehurst-Southern Pines coverage survives a slow year against plus the 9.4% rate of cancellation and charge-off rate for Pinehurst-Southern Pines, which is also held back since the cohort is thin. The Moore County, NC appraisal has to support the figure the loan uses. Pinehurst-Southern Pines relies on the July 2023 delineation; a file whose county has no match drops out of each area, Pinehurst-Southern Pines no exception, and the totals cover loans apart from the named classes.

SBA loans in the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026129
Gross dollars approved$111.3 million
Median loan$377,000
Middle half of loans, from$150,000
Middle half of loans, to$912,000
SBA 7(a) loans124
SBA 504 loans5
Franchise share of loans20.9%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans411 of 928
Median loan against the national median1.81x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)9.4%
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 loans approved in the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC Metro Area, by fiscal year

05101520FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 16Loans, FY2018: 10Loans, FY2019: 11Loans, FY2020: 7Loans, FY2021: 15Loans, FY2022: 5Loans, FY2023: 17Loans, FY2024: 15Loans, FY2025: 16Loans, FY2026: 17
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201716$12.5 million
FY201810$5.9 million
FY201911$4.9 million
FY20207$6.6 million
FY202115$20.3 million
FY20225$4.5 million
FY202317$22.7 million
FY202415$14.5 million
FY202516$10.7 million
FY202617$8.7 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes83
Hotel and motel10
Full-service restaurant6

Classes with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Business Expansion Funding Corporation5$6.5 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Live Oak Banking Company16$19.9 million
The Huntington National Bank8$2.3 million
The Fidelity Bank6$5.3 million
Northeast Bank (ME)6$539,600
GBank5$15.0 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
Moore County, NC129

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.

All assets: every 7(a) and 504 approval in the metro, including those outside the 39 asset classes.

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 MT-38240.

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