From purchase-sized loans to small loans
Other-purpose loans were 40.8% of its lending and home improvement 30.7%; purchases were 16.0% and refinances 12.4%. Its typical loan was $155,000, against $295,000 five years earlier and $285,000 at similar lenders (independent non-bank lenders making between half and twice as many loans). FHA loans (insured by the Federal Housing Administration) fell to 7.8% from 27.0% over the same five years, and conventional loans rose to 86.0%.