Big loans, many veterans
Every loan Parkstone Mortgage made was for a home purchase. Its typical loan was $465,000, against $315,000 at similar lenders (independent non-bank lenders making between half and twice as many loans), larger than nearly nine in ten of them. Some 22.4% of its loans were guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), against 6.1% at peers, a share higher than at almost all of them.