A taste for big loans
Jumbo loans (larger than the conforming limit) made up 12.1% of its lending. At similar lenders, state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans, they were 1.4%, and its share was higher than at more than nine in ten of them. Five years earlier its own share was 1.3%. Its typical loan has grown from $150,000 to $245,000.