# Heritage Bank (Washington)

Pacific Northwest Preferred Lender, decides locally.

An Olympia bank with branches across Washington, Oregon and Idaho, a preferred SBA lender specializing in 7(a) and 504 that names acquisition financing on its loans page, makes lending decisions locally, and publishes a loan comparison sheet with SBA loans to $5 million and a community development desk from $500,000 to $9 million.

- Category: SBA & Acquisition Lenders
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Diligence & Close the Deal
- Website: https://www.heritagebanknw.com/home/business-banking/loans-credit

## At a Glance

A Pacific Northwest branch bank that names its SBA people and its sizes, and decides locally; the [searcher](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/searcher)'s shape is on its pages only as acquisition financing.

## What It Costs

Loan products; terms by term sheet. Its comparison sheet puts SBA loans at up to $5 million on five to twenty-five year terms and publishes no rate or fee for them (per heritagebanknw.com, September 2026).

## Best For

A buyer of a business in Washington, Oregon or Idaho who wants a branch bank with a named SBA director and local decisions

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: Names acquisition financing on its loans page and business acquisition on its SBA comparison sheet
- Pro: A named SBA director and two SBA business development officers with offices and phone numbers
- Pro: Says all lending decisions are made locally, in its own words
- Pro: Publishes a loan comparison sheet with sizes and terms by product, which most branch banks do not
- Con: Its SBA ceiling is the program's $5 million restated, and its only figure above it is a community development desk for low-income communities
- Con: Three states and a branch-driven process, with no online application
- Con: Names no [search fund](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/search-fund), searcher or acquisition entrepreneur

## What Searchers Say

Read on its loans page, its lending team page, its industry pages, its company story and its loan comparison sheet. Its loans page names two SBA programs and its sheet names three. No searcher-forum discussion of the desk was found.

## Sources

- https://www.heritagebanknw.com/home/business-banking/loans-credit
- https://www.heritagebanknw.com/home/business-banking/lending-team
- https://www.heritagebanknw.com/home/about/company-story
- https://www.heritagebanknw.com/home/fiFiles/static/documents/business-loan-comparison.pdf
- https://www.heritagebanknw.com/home/resource-center

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Last checked: 2026-09-18

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