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Joint Venture
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]  
Joint Venture
4. Joint Venture
In July 2021, the Company and Guaranteed Rate, Inc. (“Guaranteed Rate”) formed a joint venture, OriginPoint, LLC (“OriginPoint”), a new mortgage origination company. OriginPoint was formed for the purpose of conducting a mortgage origination and lending business and providing related services for the Company’s real estate brokerage clients, as well as the clients of any other brokerage in the context of a new purchase or other customers not working with a brokerage in the context of a refinancing, in order to make loans available to a broad consumer audience. OriginPoint will originate, process, underwrite, close and/or fund mortgage loans for sale, transfer and assignment to investors and eligible wholesale lenders, including affiliates, or effect any other secondary market transactions related to such mortgage loans. OriginPoint began originating mortgages in December 2021.
OriginPoint is owned 49.9% by the Company, and 50.1% by Guaranteed Rate. The Company and Guaranteed Rate each contributed capital of $5.0 million when OriginPoint was formed in July 2021 and have not contributed any additional capital through December 31, 2021. The Company is accounting for OriginPoint as an equity method investment and will record its equity earnings or losses related to OriginPoint within Equity in loss of unconsolidated
entity
in the statement of operations.
The Company’s investment in OriginPoint had a balance of $
3.7
 million at December 31, 2021 and is included within
Other
non-current
assets on the accompanying consolidated balance sheet. The Company recorded equity losses of $
1.3
 
million during the year ended December 31, 2021. No dividends were received by the Company during the year ended December 31, 2021.
OriginPoint has established and maintains its own warehouse lines of credit, and it funds its own mortgage loan transactions from these independent sources. The warehouse lines maintained by OriginPoint are collaterized by the underlying mortgages available for sale and are non-recourse to Compass.