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Real Estate Owned (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2019
Banking and Thrift [Abstract] |
Schedule of Real Estate Owned | The following table details activity in the Company's carrying value of REO for the three-month period ended March 31, 2019.
|  | Number of Properties |  | Carrying Value
|  |  |  | (In thousands)
Beginning Balance (1/1/2019) |  | 20 |  |  | $ | 30,778 |
Transfers from mortgage loans |  | 2 |  |  | 299 |
Capital expenditures and other adjustments to cost |  |  |  | 240 |
Adjustments to record at the lower of cost or fair value |  |  |  | (250 | )
Disposals |  | (1 | ) |  | (64 | )
Ending Balance (3/31/2019) |  | 21 |  |  | $ | 31,003 |

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