Cathay Bank
Bank · New York City, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Hudson County, Austin · active as of Sep 2026
Cathay Bank has 408 commercial mortgage closings on record since Nov 2023, in 10 counties — most in Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, New York (Manhattan). The middle half of its loans ran $1.3M–$3M, median $1.8M. Everything below is what the county record shows this lender did, dated to its last closing — not a credit box, and not a promise that it is lending on the same terms today.
Counted from the recorded mortgages that name Cathay Bank as the lender: one row per loan, the originator of record only, every spelling the clerk used folded together (9 spellings). The last 36 months, as of Nov 2026; 1,406 loans on file in all since Dec 2003.
Where Cathay Bank lends
| County | Market | Last 36 months | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kings (Brooklyn) | New York City | 173 | 576 |
| Queens | New York City | 165 | 579 |
| New York (Manhattan) | New York City | 34 | 143 |
| Bronx | New York City | 8 | 21 |
| Tarrant | Dallas–Fort Worth | 7 | 16 |
| Dallas | Dallas–Fort Worth | 6 | 31 |
| Harris | Houston | 6 | 15 |
| Collin | Dallas–Fort Worth | 5 | 13 |
| Bexar | San Antonio | 3 | 3 |
| Denton | Dallas–Fort Worth | 1 | 2 |
| Hudson | Hudson County | 0 | 4 |
| Travis | Austin | 0 | 3 |
A county links to its own lender page — every institution that has closed there, ranked, by property type and loan size.
Closings by quarter
Recorded closings in each of the last 12 quarters. A lender that stopped reads as stopped: the bars are what was recorded, quarter by quarter, nothing smoothed.
What it lends on, and how much
Collateral
- Mixed Use11328%
- Residential 1–4 Units7518%
- Multifamily6616%
- Retail5113%
- Industrial4210%
- Commercial (general)256%
- Unclassified82%
- Office82%
- Parking72%
- Special Purpose61%
- Lodging41%
- Land31%
≈ Denton and Tarrant publish no building class, so property types there are Circlemark's estimates from what is on record at each address, not the district's classification.
Loan size
- Middle half
- $1.3M–$3M
- Median
- $1.8M
- Largest single recording
- $32M
- Not tied to a purchase
- 51%of 397 classified
Recent closings
| Recorded | County | Collateral | Amount | Borrower |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2026 | Kings (Brooklyn) | Mixed Use | $1.7M | on the signed-in profile |
| Sep 14, 2026 | Queens | Mixed Use | $1.1M | on the signed-in profile |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Kings (Brooklyn) | Office | $2.5M | on the signed-in profile |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Kings (Brooklyn) | Residential 1–4 Units | $1.1M | on the signed-in profile |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Bronx | Retail | $1.8M | on the signed-in profile |
The 5 most recent of 1,406 recorded loans. The signed-in profile lists all of them with the property, the borrower and when each comes due.
25 people on record at Cathay Bank
13 originators and relationship managers, 12 who run the firm or its lending — the commercial lending people Cathay Bank's own team page, its announcements and the county's filings name, each cited to its source, with published work emails where there are any. And every one of its 1,406 recorded loans, with the borrower, the collateral and when each comes due.
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How this is counted
- Source of record. Every closing is a mortgage recorded with the county that names Cathay Bank, or a spelling of it, as the lender. Loans where it appears as nominee, servicer or trustee are left out.
- One loan, one closing. A blanket loan over several lots, or a facility recorded once per property, counts once.
- Revealed, not stated. This is what Cathay Bank has done, not what it says it wants. It has not told us its credit box, and this page never guesses one from the sizes it has closed.
- Dated. The window is the last 36 months to Nov 2026. Re-counted every six hours from the weekly re-read of the record. An institution has a page once it has 10 closings in the window.
How spellings become one institution is on the methodology page. The same count across a whole market, with the 25 most active lenders named, is in who lends on NYC commercial real estate and who lends on Texas commercial real estate.