Home improvement first, with large loans
Home improvement made up 44.4% of its loans and other purposes 21.6%; refinances were 17.4% and purchases 16.6%. Its typical loan, $195,000, was larger than at about nine in ten similar lenders (credit unions making between half and twice as many loans), whose typical loan was $105,000, and jumbo loans (larger than the conforming limit) were 7.9%, against 0.6%.