Thanks, Tony. I'm going to provide detail on our second quarter production results, starting with our commercial lending group. For the quarter, our commercial teams closed $152 million in new loan commitments, down from $226 million last quarter and down from $212 million closed in the second quarter of 2020. The commercial loan pipeline ended the second quarter at $492 million, down from $540 million last quarter and up from $421 million at the end of the second quarter of 2020. We are continuing to see an elevated level of new loan requests from customers and prospects, similar to the first quarter, and remain optimistic this will continue to grow with most restrictions in Washington and Oregon being lifted by the governors at the end of June and our bankers out actively meeting with customers in person, in some cases, for the first time in over a year. Loans, excluding SBA PPP balances, decreased $46 million during the second quarter due to an elevated $168 million of prepayments and payoffs. This included $16 million of nonaccrual loans and is in addition to the continued runoff of the indirect consumer loan portfolio, which declined $24 million during the quarter. Consumer production, the majority of which are home equity lines of credit, was $23 million for the second quarter, up from $16 million last quarter and up from $19 million in the second quarter of 2020.
Moving to interest rates. Our average second quarter interest rate for new commercial loans, excluding PPP loans, was 3.47%, which is down 6 basis points from 3.53% last quarter. In addition, the average second quarter rate for all new loans, excluding PPP loans, was 3.45%, down 21 basis points from 3.66% last quarter.
The mortgage team closed $49 million of new loans in the second quarter of 2021 compared to $43 million closed in the first quarter of 2021 and $53 million closed in the second quarter of 2020. The mortgage pipeline ended the quarter at $41 million versus $36 million in Q1 and $51 million in the second quarter of 2020. Refinances made up 63% of the pipeline at quarter end.
Moving on to SBA PPP forgiveness. The SBA PPP forgiveness process continues to progress smoothly. As of last week, all but 275 of our 4,642 round 1 PPP customers have submitted an application for forgiveness. We also opened for forgiveness for round 2 PPP customers in May, and as of Monday, had received 469 applications out of 2,542 total round 2 PPP customers. Please go to Page 20 in the investor presentation for more detail on PPP loans.
I'll now turn the call back to Jeff.