Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

MORTGAGE BANKING ACTIVITIES

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MORTGAGE BANKING ACTIVITIES
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Mortgage Banking Activities [Abstract]  
Mortgage Banking Activities
NOTE 4 – MORTGAGE BANKING ACTIVITIES
The Company’s mortgage
 
banking activities at its subsidiary,
 
CCHL, 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.
 
For the nine month period of 2020, information provided below reflects CCHL activities
 
for the
period March 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020 and CCB legacy residential
 
real estate activities for the period January 1, 2020 to March
1, 2020.
 
All quarterly information subsequent to the quarter ended March 31, 2020 includes CCHL activity.
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.
September 30, 2021
December 31, 2020
Unpaid Principal
Unpaid Principal
(Dollars in Thousands)
Balance/Notional
Fair Value
Balance/Notional
Fair Value
Residential Mortgage Loans Held for Sale
$
74,491
$
77,036
$
109,831
$
114,039
Residential Mortgage Loan Commitments ("IRLCs")
(1)
87,062
1,717
147,494
4,825
Forward Sales Contracts
(2)
102,500
451
158,500
(907)
$
79,204
$
117,957
(1)
Recorded in other assets at fair value
(2)
Recorded in other assets and other liabilities at fair value
 
at September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively
The Company had
no
 
residential mortgage loans held for sale that were 90 days or more outstanding or on nonaccrual
 
at September
30, 2021 and had $
0.6
 
million at December 31, 2020.
 
Mortgage banking revenue was as follows:
Three Months Ended
Nine Months Ended
 
September 30,
 
September 30,
(Dollars in Thousands)
2021
2020
2021
2020
Net realized gains on sales of mortgage loans
$
12,132
$
21,423
$
40,089
$
39,410
Net change
 
in unrealized gain on mortgage loans held for sale
(165)
1,499
(1,663)
3,329
Net change in the fair value of mortgage loan commitments (IRLCs)
(806)
691
(3,108)
3,833
Net change in the fair value of forward sales contracts
540
560
1,358
791
Pair-Offs on net settlement of forward sales contracts
(636)
(3,049)
2,199
(7,445)
Mortgage servicing rights additions
205
763
845
2,813
Net origination fees
1,013
1,096
2,905
2,902
Total mortgage banking
 
revenues
$
12,283
$
22,983
$
42,625
$
45,633
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)
September 30, 2021
December 31, 2020
Number of residential mortgage loans serviced for others
2,028
1,796
Outstanding principal balance of residential mortgage loans serviced
 
for others
$
505,321
$
456,135
Weighted average
 
interest rate
3.62%
3.64%
Remaining contractual term (in months)
316
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 September 30, 2021, the servicing portfolio balance consisted of
 
the following loan types: FNMA
(
60
%), GNMA (
9
%), and private investor (
31
%).
 
FNMA and private investor loans are structured as actual/actual payment
remittance.
 
The Company had $
3.0
 
million and $
4.9
 
million in delinquent residential mortgage loans currently in GNMA pools
 
serviced by the
Company at September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.
 
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.
 
For the three month period ended September 30, 2021, the Company
 
did
no
t repurchase any delinquent residential loans currently in
GNMA pools.
 
For the nine month period ended September 30, 2021, the Company repurchased
 
$
2.2
 
million of GNMA delinquent or
defaulted mortgage loans with the intention to modify their terms and include
 
the loans in new GNMA pools.
 
Activity in the capitalized mortgage servicing rights was as follows:
Three Months Ended September 30,
Nine Months Ended September 30,
(Dollars in Thousands)
2021
2020
2021
2020
Beginning balance
$
3,710
$
2,862
$
3,452
$
910
Additions due to loans sold with servicing retained
205
763
845
2,813
Deletions and amortization
(351)
(277)
(983)
(375)
Valuation
 
allowance reversal
-
-
250
-
Ending balance
$
3,564
$
3,348
$
3,564
$
3,348
The Company did
no
t record any permanent impairment losses on mortgage servicing rights for the
 
three or nine month periods ended
September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2020.
 
The key unobservable inputs used in determining the fair value of the Company’s
 
mortgage servicing rights were as follows:
September 30, 2021
December 31, 2020
Minimum
Maximum
Minimum
Maximum
Discount rates
11.00%
15.00%
11.00%
15.00%
Annual prepayment speeds
13.53%
23.82%
13.08%
23.64%
Cost of servicing (per loan)
$
90
$
110
$
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
17.34
% at September 30, 2021 and
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
September 30, 2021.
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.
 
(1)
$
6,526
$
75
 
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.
21,942
$
50
 
million warehouse line of credit agreement expiring in
September 2021
.
 
Interest is at the LIBOR plus
2.75%
, with a floor rate of
3.25%
.
 
(2)
19,376
Total Warehouse
 
Borrowings
$
47,844
 
(1)
The Company does not intend to renew when the warehouse line expires.
 
(2)
In October 2021, the warehouse line was renewed through November 30,
 
2021.
Warehouse
 
line borrowings are classified as short-term borrowings.
 
At September 30, 2021, 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 September 30, 2021.
 
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
September 30, 2021 was $
27.0
 
million.