Small loans, rarely for purchase
Other purposes made up 35.1% of its 114 loans, refinances 34.2% and home improvement 25.4%. Purchases took only 5.3%. Its typical loan was $65,000. At similar lenders (credit unions making between half and twice as many loans) it was $105,000, and this credit union's was lower than at about six in seven of them. Such loans may explain why it lent $10.2 million, below the $15.0 million at peers, despite making more loans.