Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

MORTGAGE BANKING ACTIVITIES

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MORTGAGE BANKING ACTIVITIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Mortgage Banking Activities [Abstract]  
Mortgage Banking Activities
Note 4
MORTGAGE BANKING ACTIVITIES
 
Pursuant to the Brand acquisition on March 1, 2020,
 
the Company’s mortgage banking
 
activities at its subsidiary Capital City
Homes Loans have expanded to include mandatory
 
delivery loan sales, forward sales contracts used to manage
 
residential loan
pipeline price risk, utilization of warehouse lines to fund
 
secondary market residential loan closings, and residential mortgage
servicing.
 
Information provided below reflects CCHL activities post acquisition for
 
the period March 1, 2020 to December 31,
2020 and CCB legacy residential real estate activities for the
 
period January 1, 2020 to March 1, 2020.
 
 
Residential Mortgage Loan Production
 
The Company originates, markets, and services conventional
 
and government-sponsored residential mortgage
 
loans.
 
Generally,
conforming fixed rate residential mortgage loans are held
 
for sale in the secondary market and non-conforming and
 
adjustable-
rate residential mortgage loans may be held for investment.
 
The volume of residential mortgage loans originated
 
for sale and
secondary market prices are the primary drivers of origination
 
revenue.
 
Residential mortgage loan commitments are generally outstanding
 
for 30 to 90 days, which represents the typical period from
commitment to originate a residential mortgage loan to
 
when the closed loan is sold to an investor.
 
Residential mortgage loan
commitments are subject to both credit and price risk.
 
Credit risk is managed through underwriting policies and
 
procedures,
including collateral requirements, which are generally
 
accepted by the secondary loan markets.
 
Price risk is primarily related to
interest rate fluctuations and is partially managed through
 
forward sales of residential mortgage-backed securities (primarily
 
to-be
announced securities, or TBAs) or mandatory delivery commitments
 
with investors.
 
 
The unpaid principal balance of residential mortgage loans
 
held for sale, notional amounts of derivative contracts
 
related to
residential mortgage loan commitments and forward contract sales and
 
their related fair values are set forth below.
December 31, 2020
Unpaid Principal
(Dollars in Thousands)
Balance/Notional
Fair Value
Residential Mortgage Loans Held for Sale
$
109,831
$
114,039
Residential Mortgage Loan Commitments ("IRLCs")
(1)
147,494
4,825
Forward Sales Contracts
(2)
158,500
(907)
$
117,957
(1)
Recorded in other assets at fair value
(2)
Recorded in other liabilities at fair value
Residential mortgage loans held for sale that were
 
90 days or more outstanding or on nonaccrual totaled $
0.6
 
million at December
31, 2020.
 
 
Mortgage banking revenues for the year ended December
 
31, was as follows:
(Dollars in Thousands)
2020
Net realized gains on sales of mortgage loans
$
59,709
Net change in unrealized gain on mortgage loans held
 
for sale
2,926
Net change in the fair value of mortgage loan commitments
 
(IRLCs)
2,625
Net change in the fair value of forward sales contracts
284
Pair-Offs on net settlement of forward
 
sales contracts
(9,602)
Mortgage servicing rights additions
3,448
Net origination fees
3,954
Total mortgage
 
banking revenues
$
63,344
Residential Mortgage Servicing
 
 
The Company may retain the right to service residential
 
mortgage loans sold.
 
The unpaid principal balance of loans serviced for
others is the primary driver of servicing revenue.
 
 
The following represents a summary of mortgage
 
servicing rights.
(Dollars in Thousands)
2020
Number of residential mortgage loans serviced for others
1,796
Outstanding principal balance of residential mortgage
 
loans serviced for others
$
456,135
Weighted average
 
interest rate
3.64%
Remaining contractual term (in months)
321
Conforming conventional loans serviced by the Company
 
are sold to FNMA on a non-recourse basis, whereby foreclosure
 
losses
are generally the responsibility of FNMA and not the
 
Company.
 
The government loans serviced by the Company are secured
through GNMA, whereby the Company is insured
 
against loss by the Federal Housing Administration or partially guaranteed
against loss by the Veterans
 
Administration.
 
At December 31, 2020, the servicing portfolio balance consisted
 
of the following
loan types: FNMA (
63
%), GNMA (
13
%), and private investor (
24
%).
 
FNMA and private investor loans are structured as
actual/actual payment remittance.
 
At December 31, 2020, delinquent residential mortgage
 
loans currently in GNMA pools serviced by the Company totaled $
4.9
million.
 
The right to repurchase these loans and the corresponding liability
 
has been recorded in other assets and other liabilities,
respectively, in
 
the Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition.
 
 
Activity in the capitalized mortgage servicing rights for the
 
year ended December 31, was as follows:
(Dollars in Thousands)
2020
Beginning balance
$
910
Additions due to loans sold with servicing retained
3,448
Deletions and amortization
(656)
Valuation
 
Provision (temporary impairment)
(250)
Ending balance
$
3,452
The Company had
no
 
permanent impairment losses on its mortgage servicing
 
rights for the year ended December 31, 2020.
 
 
At December 31, 2020, the key unobservable inputs used
 
in determining the fair value of the Company’s
 
mortgage servicing
rights were as follows:
Minimum
Maximum
Discount rates
11.00%
15.00%
Annual prepayment speeds
13.08%
23.64%
Cost of servicing (basis points)
90
110
Changes in residential mortgage interest rates directly
 
affect the prepayment speeds used in valuing the Company’s
 
mortgage
servicing rights.
 
A separate third party model is used to estimate prepayment speeds
 
based on interest rates, housing turnover
rates, estimated loan curtailment, anticipated defaults, and
 
other relevant factors.
 
The weighted average annual prepayment speed
was
17.10
% at December 31, 2020.
 
 
 
Warehouse
 
Line Borrowings
 
The Company has the following warehouse lines of
 
credit and master repurchase agreements with various financial institutions
 
at
December 31, 2020.
Amounts
(Dollars in Thousands)
Outstanding
$
25
 
million warehouse line of credit agreement expiring
October 2021
.
 
Interest is at LIBOR plus
2.25%
, with a
floor rate of
3.50%
.
 
A cash pledge deposit of $
0.1
 
million is required by the lender.
$
11,256
$
50
 
million master repurchase agreement without defined expiration.
 
Interest is at the LIBOR plus
2.24%
 
to
3.00%
, with a floor rate of
3.25%
.
 
A cash pledge deposit of $
0.5
 
million is required by the lender.
39,985
$
50
 
million warehouse line of credit agreement expiring in
September 2021
.
 
Interest is at the LIBOR plus
2.75%
.
23,541
$
74,782
Warehouse
 
line borrowings are classified as short-term borrowings.
 
At December 31, 2020, the Company had mortgage loans
held for sale pledged as collateral under the above
 
warehouse lines of credit and master repurchase agreements.
 
The above
agreements also contain covenants which include
 
certain financial requirements, including maintenance of minimum
 
tangible net
worth, minimum liquid assets, maximum debt to
 
net worth ratio and positive net income, as defined in the agreements.
 
The
Company was in compliance with all significant debt
 
covenants at December 31, 2020.
 
 
The Company intends to renew the warehouse lines of
 
credit and master repurchase agreements when they mature
 
.
 
The Company has extended a $
50
 
million warehouse line of credit to CCHL, a
51
% owned subsidiary entity.
 
Balances and
transactions under this line of credit are eliminated
 
in the Company’s consolidated
 
financial statements and thus not included in
the total short term borrowings noted on the consolidated
 
statement of financial condition.
 
The balance of this line of credit at
December 31, 2020 was $
30.0
 
million.