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Real Estate Owned (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Real Estate Owned, Disclosure of Detailed Components [Abstract] |
Schedule of Real Estate Owned | The following tables detail activity in the Company's carrying value of REO for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019:
|  | Year Ended
|  | December 31, 2020 |  | December 31, 2019
|  | Number of Properties |  | Carrying Value |  | Number of Properties |  | Carrying Value
|  |  |  | (In thousands) |  |  |  | (In thousands)
Beginning Balance (December 31, 2019 and January 1, 2019, respectively) |  | 15 |  |  | $ | 30,584 |  |  | 20 |  |  | $ | 30,778 |
Transfers from mortgage loans |  | 10 |  |  | 3,384 |  |  | 8 |  |  | 22,577 |
Capital expenditures and other adjustments to cost |  |  |  | 191 |  |  |  |  | 240 |
Adjustments to record at the lower of cost or fair value |  |  |  | (1,053) |  |  |  |  | (1,002) |
Disposals |  | (12) |  |  | (9,508) |  |  | (13) |  |  | (22,009) |
Ending Balance (December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively) |  | 13 |  |  | $ | 23,598 |  |  | 15 |  |  | $ | 30,584 |

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