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MORTGAGE BANKING ACTIVITIES

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MORTGAGE BANKING ACTIVITIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
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.
 
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.
March 31, 2022
December 31, 2021
Unpaid Principal
Unpaid Principal
(Dollars in Thousands)
Balance/Notional
Fair Value
Balance/Notional
Fair Value
Residential Mortgage Loans Held for Sale
$
49,991
$
50,815
$
50,733
$
52,532
Residential Mortgage Loan Commitments ("IRLCs")
(1)
99,399
1,117
51,883
1,258
Forward Sales Contracts
(2)
55,000
850
48,000
(7)
$
52,782
$
53,783
(1)
Recorded in other assets at fair value
(2)
Recorded in other assets and other liabilities at fair value
 
at March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively
The Company had
no
 
residential mortgage loans held for sale that were 90 days or more outstanding or on
 
nonaccrual at March 31,
2022, and loans held for sale that were 30-69 days outstanding totaled $
0.2
 
million at December 31, 2021.
 
Mortgage banking revenue was as follows:
Three Months Ended March 31,
(Dollars in Thousands)
2022
2021
Net realized gains on sales of mortgage loans
$
5,136
$
14,424
Net change in unrealized gain on mortgage loans held for sale
(975)
(2,031)
Net change in the fair value of mortgage loan commitments (IRLCs)
(141)
(1,843)
Net change in the fair value of forward sales contracts
857
2,263
Pair-Offs on net settlement of forward sales contracts
2,255
3,310
Mortgage servicing rights additions
632
187
Net origination fees
1,182
815
Total mortgage banking
 
revenues
$
8,946
$
17,125
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)
March 31, 2022
December 31, 2021
Number of residential mortgage loans serviced for others
2,224
2,106
Outstanding principal balance of residential mortgage loans serviced
 
for others
$
577,297
$
532,967
Weighted average
 
interest rate
3.62%
3.59%
Remaining contractual term (in months)
317
317
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 March 31, 2022, the servicing portfolio balance consisted of the
 
following loan types: FNMA (
60
%),
GNMA (
8
%), and private investor (
32
%).
 
FNMA and private investor loans are structured as actual/actual payment remittance.
 
The Company had $
1.3
 
million and $
2.0
 
million in delinquent residential mortgage loans currently in GNMA pools
 
serviced by the
Company at March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively.
 
The right to repurchase these loans and the corresponding liability
has been recorded in other assets and other liabilities, respectively,
 
in the Consolidated Statement of Financial Condition.
 
For the
three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company repurchased $
0.4
 
million in delinquent residential loans currently in GNMA pools.
 
For the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Company repurchased
 
$
1.5
 
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 March 31,
(Dollars in Thousands)
2022
2021
Beginning balance
$
3,774
$
3,452
Additions due to loans sold with servicing retained
632
187
Deletions and amortization
(405)
(306)
Valuation
 
allowance reversal
-
250
Ending balance
$
4,001
$
3,583
The Company did
no
t record any permanent impairment losses on mortgage servicing rights for the
 
three months ended March 31,
2022 and March 31, 2021.
 
The key unobservable inputs used in determining the fair value of the Company’s
 
mortgage servicing rights were as follows:
March 31, 2022
December 31, 2021
Minimum
Maximum
Minimum
Maximum
Discount rates
10.00%
15.00%
11.00%
15.00%
Annual prepayment speeds
7.12%
19.55%
11.98%
23.79%
Cost of servicing (per loan)
$
60
$
73
$
60
$
73
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
10.56
% at March 31, 2022 and
15.85
% at December 31, 2021.
 
 
Warehouse
 
Line Borrowings
The Company has the following warehouse lines of credit and master repurchase
 
agreements with various financial institutions at
March 31, 2022.
Amounts
(Dollars in Thousands)
Outstanding
$
75
 
million master repurchase agreement without defined expiration.
 
Interest is at the Prime rate minus
1.00%
to plus
1.00%
, with a floor rate of
3.25%
.
 
A cash pledge deposit of $
0.5
 
million is required by the lender.
6,705
$
75
 
million warehouse line of credit agreement expiring in
November 2022
.
 
Interest is at the SOFR plus
2.25%
, to
3.25%
.
19,191
Total Warehouse
 
Borrowings
$
25,896
Warehouse
 
line borrowings are classified as short-term borrowings.
 
At December 31, 2021, warehouse line borrowings totaled $
29.0
million. At March 31, 2022, the Company had residential mortgage
 
loans held for sale and construction loans held for investment
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, and maximum debt to net worth ratio, as defined in the agreements.
 
The Company was in compliance with all significant debt
covenants at March 31, 2022.
 
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, 2021 and March 31, 2022 was $
14.8
 
and $
15.3
 
million, respectively.