A refinance lender
Nine in ten of its 70 loans in 2025 were refinances; purchases were 1.4%. Its loans rose 59%, against 7% for similar lenders (credit unions making between half and twice as many loans), as its typical rate eased from 7.24% to 6.80%. A refinance lender's volume moves with rates, which may explain both this jump and the slide from 126 loans in 2021 to 44 in 2024; its typical rate in 2020 was 3.00%.