Small loans, varied purposes
Purchases made up 42.1% of its loans and refinances 27.0%, with other purposes at 15.9% and home improvement at 15.1%. Its typical loan, $105,000, was lower than the $185,000 at similar lenders (national banks making between half and twice as many loans), lower than more than nine in ten of them. The home-improvement and other-purpose loans may account for much of that.