SBA 7(a) Dental Office Feasibility Study in Iowa

What SBA's own loan files show about SBA 7(a) lending to dental office projects in Iowa, and what a feasibility study for an SBA 7(a) loan there has to test.

What Iowa shows for dental office (SBA 7(a)) lending

For dental office projects in Iowa, SBA logged 27 approvals, $21.2 million in gross dollars, in Iowa under 7(a) from FY2017 through FY2026. Iowa's dental office volume under SBA 7(a) stands 40 across the states on loan count, and dental office is 11 of 39 within Iowa's asset classes. Midpoint size: $500,000. Relative to SBA 7(a) dental office loans nationwide, Iowa runs at 1.01x on the median, a comparable ticket profile. From $233,000 up to $964,150 sits the middle half of the approvals in Iowa. The franchise share of Iowa loans is 0.00%. At $500,000, the Iowa median looks like both parents', so Iowa readers should use the lender names and local spread below.

The lenders and places behind Iowa's dental office loans

The institutions with the most Iowa dental office loans are Bankers Trust Company at $1.7 million across 6 loans and Live Oak Banking Company at $11.2 million across 5 loans. Treat the 6 loans and $1.7 million for Bankers Trust Company with care: SBA lists each Iowa loan's current holder, so the list names the current holder of each loan. By county, Johnson with 4, Polk with 4, Davis with 2 and Hardin with 2 top the dental office loans in Iowa. Timing shows a simple story for dental office in Iowa: approvals peaked at 9 loans, worth $6.6 million, in FY2018, alongside FY2026 at 0 loans plus $0; the series began with 4 loans in FY2017.

Iowa: outcomes, read as minimums for dental office

Where approvals were later cancelled, Iowa dental office shows no share, since only a thin cohort of under 30 loans exists, and Loan Analytics prints nothing for it; a dental office blank for Iowa means withheld, never a zero. On Iowa dental office loans disbursed from FY2017 to FY2021, Loan Analytics withholds the Iowa dental office loss rate; with under 30 Iowa loans we print no number, and a gap here for dental office is not a zero. Any Iowa rate shown on this page is a minimum, not a final result.

Questions a dental office (SBA 7(a)) study in Iowa must answer

Under 7(a), an Iowa dental office request rests on Iowa cash flow and the real estate the Iowa study has to document. Patient demand for an Iowa dental office depends on existing competition per area, household composition and plan participation, which our work tests. Build-out of an Iowa dental office includes equipment, so our cost plan separates real estate and equipment costs. The coverage test runs at $500,000 and as well at $964,150, with a downside case, so an Iowa reader sees where dental office the margin narrows. Appraisal of Iowa dental office real estate turns on what another practitioner would pay, rather than on single owner's collections. A borrower who is approaching Bankers Trust Company should treat its 6 loans as background only, because SBA's figures describe loans, not any requirements.

Loan Analytics presents the 27 Iowa approvals as SBA's Iowa files, not a prediction for any dental office project; a dental office study signed by Daniel Smith, MAI, addresses Iowa conditions first, and Iowa approvals assure nothing.

SBA 7(a) dental office loans in Iowa

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202627
Gross dollars approved$21.2 million
Median loan$500,000
Middle half of loans, from$233,000
Middle half of loans, to$964,150
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among states for SBA 7(a) dental office loans, by number of loans40
Rank of dental office among classes in Iowa11 of 39
Median loan against the national SBA 7(a) median for the class1.01x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor) not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor) not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort

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 7(a) dental office loans approved in Iowa, by fiscal year

0246810FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 4Loans, FY2018: 9Loans, FY2019: 2Loans, FY2020: 1Loans, FY2021: 2Loans, FY2022: 1Loans, FY2023: 1Loans, FY2024: 3Loans, FY2025: 4Loans, FY2026: 0
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20174$1.9 million
FY20189$6.6 million
FY20192$290,000
FY20201$116,900
FY20212$3.1 million
FY20221$1.5 million
FY20231$299,500
FY20243$1.7 million
FY20254$5.7 million
FY20260$0

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Bankers Trust Company6$1.7 million
Live Oak Banking Company5$11.2 million

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
JOHNSON4
POLK4
DAVIS2
HARDIN2
IOWA2
LINN2
SCOTT2
WOODBURY2
BREMER1
CHEROKEE1

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; Loan Analytics loan-outcome cell SAP-IA-C20-7A.

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