Mostly non-purchase lending
Home purchases were only 14.9% of its loans; refinances were 32.4%, home improvement 29.3% and other purposes 23.3%. Its typical loan was $105,000, smaller than at about three-quarters of similar lenders (credit unions making between half and twice as many loans), and its typical rate, 5.75%, was lower than at more than nine in ten of them (7.00%). Its purchase denial rate, 3.2%, was lower than peers' 6.1%.