A lender to veterans and rural buyers
Home purchases made up 89.7% of its loans. It leans on government-backed lending far more than similar lenders, here independent lenders making between half and twice as many loans. Loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) were 14.8% of its lending, against 6.5% at the typical peer, a higher share than more than nine in ten of them. Loans guaranteed by the Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service were 3.7%, against 0.4%.