Bigger loans than its peers
Its typical loan was $525,000, more than double the $245,000 at similar lenders, other savings institutions making between half and twice as many loans. That is higher than at about nine in ten of them. Jumbo loans, those larger than the conforming limit, were 11.4% of its lending against 2.5%. Its main markets, Boston-Cambridge-Newton and Providence-Warwick, may account for the size.