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Other Real Estate Owned (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Other Real Estate, Foreclosed Assets, and Repossessed Assets [Abstract] |
Summary of Other Real Estate Owned | The following tables set forth activity in OREO for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31,
|  | 2015 |  | 2014
|  | (in thousands)
Balance, beginning of period |  | $ | 22,190 |  |  | $ | 35,927 |
Transfers in |  | 4,692 |  |  | 5,751 |
Valuation adjustments |  | (197 | ) |  | (1,580 | )
Proceeds from sale of OREO property |  | (5,122 | ) |  | (11,205 | )
Gain on sale of OREO, net |  | 1,736 |  |  | 1,659 |
Balance, end of period |  | $ | 23,299 |  |  | $ | 30,552 |

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