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Real Estate Owned (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2019
Real Estate Owned, Disclosure of Detailed Components [Abstract] |
Schedule of Real Estate Owned | The following table details activity in the Company's carrying value of REO for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2019.
|  | Three-Month Period Ended September 30, 2019 |  | Nine-Month Period Ended September 30, 2019
|  | Number of Properties |  | Carrying Value |  | Number of Properties |  | Carrying Value
|  |  |  | (In thousands) |  |  |  | (In thousands)
Beginning Balance (6/30/2019 and 1/1/2019, respectively) |  | 20 |  |  | $ | 47,621 |  |  | 20 |  |  | $ | 30,778 |
Transfers from mortgage loans |  | 1 |  |  | 601 |  |  | 5 |  |  | 18,314 |
Capital expenditures and other adjustments to cost |  |  |  | — |  |  |  |  | 240 |
Adjustments to record at the lower of cost or fair value |  |  |  | 6 |  |  |  |  | (257 | )
Disposals |  | (7 | ) |  | (3,805 | ) |  | (11 | ) |  | (4,652 | )
Ending Balance (9/30/2019) |  | 14 |  |  | $ | 44,423 |  |  | 14 |  |  | $ | 44,423 |

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