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Real Estate Owned (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2021
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 three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2021 and 2020:
|  | Three-Month Period Ended
|  | September 30, 2021 |  | September 30, 2020
|  | Number of Properties |  | Carrying Value |  | Number of Properties |  | Carrying Value
|  |  |  | (In thousands) |  |  |  | (In thousands)
Beginning Balance (June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively) |  | 14 |  |  | $ | 35,295 |  |  | 13 |  |  | $ | 24,044 |
Transfers from mortgage loans |  | 4 |  |  | 1,479 |  |  | 4 |  |  | 676 |
Capital expenditures and other adjustments to cost |  |  |  | 312 |  |  |  |  | 27 |
Adjustments to record at the lower of cost or fair value |  |  |  | 699 |  |  |  |  | 147 |
Disposals |  | (3) |  |  | (783) |  |  | (1) |  |  | (100) |
Ending Balance (September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively) |  | 15 |  |  | $ | 37,002 |  |  | 16 |  |  | $ | 24,794 |
|  | Nine-Month Period Ended
|  | September 30, 2021 |  | September 30, 2020
|  | Number of Properties |  | Carrying Value |  | Number of Properties |  | Carrying Value
|  |  |  | (In thousands) |  |  |  | (In thousands)
Beginning Balance (December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively) |  | 13 |  |  | $ | 23,598 |  |  | 15 |  |  | $ | 30,584 |
Transfers from mortgage loans |  | 7 |  |  | 14,033 |  |  | 9 |  |  | 2,198 |
Capital expenditures and other adjustments to cost |  |  |  | 2,205 |  |  |  |  | 153 |
Adjustments to record at the lower of cost or fair value |  |  |  | (1,406) |  |  |  |  | (813) |
Disposals |  | (5) |  |  | (1,428) |  |  | (8) |  |  | (7,328) |
Ending Balance (September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively) |  | 15 |  |  | $ | 37,002 |  |  | 16 |  |  | $ | 24,794 |

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