Residential Loans, Net

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

SEC Schedule, 12-29, Real Estate Companies, Investment in Mortgage Loans on Real Estate [Abstract]

As of January 1, 2020, the Company has elected to account for its residential loans using the fair value option (see Note 2). The following information related to the Company's residential loans, net is provided for the prior periods presented in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements.

Distressed Residential Loans, Net

As of December 31, 2019, the carrying value of the Company’s distressed residential loans, net accounted for under ASC 310-30 amounted to approximately $158.7 million.

The following table details activity in accretable yield for the distressed residential loans, net for the three months ended March 31, 2019 (dollar amounts in thousands):



	March 31, 2019
Balance at beginning of period	$	195,559
Additions	587
Disposals	(15,080		)
Accretion	(1,825		)
Balance at end of period ⁽¹⁾	$	179,241

⁽¹⁾

Accretable yield is the excess of the distressed residential loans’ cash flows expected to be collected over the purchase price. The cash flows expected to be collected represented the Company’s estimate of the amount and timing of undiscounted principal and interest cash flows. Additions included reclassification to accretable yield from nonaccretable yield. Disposals included distressed residential loan dispositions, which included refinancing, sale and foreclosure of the underlying collateral and resulting removal of the distressed residential loans from the accretable yield, and reclassifications from accretable to nonaccretable yield. The reclassifications between accretable and nonaccretable yield and the accretion of interest income were based on various estimates regarding loan performance and the value of the underlying real estate securing the loans. As the Company continued to update its estimates regarding the loans and the underlying collateral, the accretable yield was subject to change. Therefore, the amount of accretable income recorded in the three month period ended March 31, 2019 was not necessarily indicative of future results.

The geographic concentrations of credit risk exceeding 5% of the unpaid principal balance of our distressed residential loans, net as of December 31, 2019 was as follows:



	December 31, 2019
North Carolina	10.5	%
Florida	10.1	%
Georgia	7.0	%
South Carolina	5.8	%
Texas	5.6	%
New York	5.5	%
Ohio	5.2	%
Virginia	5.2	%

Distressed residential loans, net with a carrying value of approximately $80.6 million were pledged as collateral for a repurchase agreement at December 31, 2019 (see Note 11).

Residential Loans Held in Securitization Trusts, Net

Residential loans held in securitization trusts, net were comprised of ARM loans transferred to Consolidated VIEs that have been securitized into sequentially rated classes of beneficial interests. Residential loans held in securitization trusts, net consisted of the following as of December 31, 2019 (dollar amounts in thousands):



	December 31, 2019
Unpaid principal balance	$	47,237
Deferred origination costs – net	301
Allowance for loan losses	(3,508		)
Total	$	44,030

Allowance for Loan Losses - The following table presents the activity in the Company's allowance for loan losses on residential loans held in securitization trusts, net for the three months ended March 31, 2019 (dollar amounts in thousands):



	March 31, 2019
Balance at beginning of period	$	3,759
Provision for loan losses	38
Transfer to real estate owned	(167		)
Charge-offs	—
Balance at the end of period	$	3,630

Prior to January 1, 2020, the Company evaluated the adequacy of its allowance for loan losses on a recurring basis. The Company’s allowance for loan losses as of December 31, 2019 was $3.5 million, representing 743 basis points of the outstanding principal balance of residential loans held in securitization trusts. As part of the Company’s allowance for loan loss adequacy analysis, management assessed an overall level of allowances while also assessing credit losses inherent in each non-performing residential loan held in securitization trusts. These estimates involved the consideration of various credit related factors, including, but not limited to, current housing market conditions, current loan to value ratios, delinquency status, the borrower’s current economic and credit status and other relevant factors.

Residential Collateralized Debt Obligations

As of December 31, 2019, the Company had Residential CDOs outstanding of $40.4 million recorded as liabilities on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets with a weighted average interest rate of 2.41%. The Company retained the owner trust certificates, or residual interest, for three securitizations and had a net investment in the residential securitization trusts of $4.9 million. The net investment amount is the maximum amount of the Company’s investment that was at risk to loss and represented the difference between (i) the carrying amount of the residential loans, real estate owned and receivables held in residential securitization trusts and (ii) the amount of Residential CDOs outstanding. The Residential CDOs are non-recourse debt for which the Company has no obligation.

Delinquency Status of Our Residential Loans Held in Securitization Trusts, Net

As of December 31, 2019, we had 18 delinquent loans with an aggregate principal amount outstanding of approximately $10.2 million categorized as residential loans held in securitization trusts, net, of which $6.7 million, or 66%, were under some form of temporary modified payment plan. The table below shows delinquencies in our portfolio of residential loans held in securitization trusts, net, including real estate owned (REO) through foreclosure, as of December 31, 2019 (dollar amounts in thousands):

December 31, 2019



Days Late	Number of Delinquent Loans	Total Unpaid Principal		% of Loan Portfolio
30 - 60	2	$	211	0.44	%
90 +	16	$	10,010	21.05	%
Real estate owned through foreclosure	1	$	360	0.76	%

The geographic concentrations of credit risk exceeding 5% of the total loan balances in our residential loans held in securitization trusts, net as of December 31, 2019 was as follows:



	December 31, 2019
New York	36.1	%
Massachusetts	17.2	%
New Jersey	12.8	%
Florida	12.1	%
Maryland	5.5	%