Small loans
Its typical loan was $85,000, against $177,500 at similar lenders (national banks making between half and twice as many loans), smaller than at more than nine in ten of them. Purchases made up 40.3% of its loans, refinances 32.8%, home improvement 14.9% and other purposes 11.9%. Manufactured homes were 7.5%, more than at about three-quarters of peers. Those home-improvement and manufactured-home loans may help explain the small typical loan.