Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

MORTGAGE BANKING ACTIVITIES

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MORTGAGE BANKING ACTIVITIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 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 year ended December 31, 2020, information provided below reflects
CCHL activities 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, 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
$
50,733
$
52,532
$
109,831
$
114,039
Residential Mortgage Loan Commitments ("IRLCs")
(1)
51,883
1,258
147,494
4,825
Forward Sales Contracts
(2)
48,000
(7)
158,500
(907)
$
53,783
$
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 30-69 days outstanding
 
totaled $
0.2
 
million at December 31, 2021 and 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)
2021
2020
Net realized gains on sales of mortgage loans
$
49,355
$
59,709
Net change in unrealized gain on mortgage loans held for sale
(2,410)
2,926
Net change in the fair value of mortgage loan commitments (IRLCs)
(3,567)
2,625
Net change in the fair value of forward sales contracts
900
284
Pair-Offs on net settlement of forward
 
sales contracts
2,956
(9,602)
Mortgage servicing rights additions
1,416
3,448
Net origination fees
3,775
3,954
Total mortgage banking
 
revenues
$
52,425
$
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)
2021
2020
Number of residential mortgage loans serviced for others
2,106
1,796
Outstanding principal balance of residential mortgage loans serviced
 
for others
$
532,967
$
456,135
Weighted average
 
interest rate
3.59%
3.64%
Remaining contractual term (in months)
317
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, 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 $
2.0
 
million and $
4.9
 
million in delinquent residential mortgage loans currently in GNMA pools
 
serviced by
the Company at December 31, 2021 and 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 years ended December 31, 2021, the Company repurchased
 
$
2.8
 
million of GNMA delinquent or defaulted mortgage loans
with the intention to modify their terms and include the loans in new GNMA
 
pools.
 
The Company did
no
t repurchase any of
these loans for the year ended December 31, 2020.
 
 
Activity in the capitalized mortgage servicing rights for the year ended
 
December 31, was as follows:
(Dollars in Thousands)
2021
2020
Beginning balance
$
3,452
$
910
Additions due to loans sold with servicing retained
1,416
3,448
Deletions and amortization
(1,344)
(656)
Valuation
 
Allowance (temporary impairment)
250
(250)
Ending balance
$
3,774
$
3,452
The Company had
no
 
permanent impairment losses on its mortgage servicing rights for the years
 
ended December 31, 2021 and
2020.
 
The key unobservable inputs used in determining the fair value of the Company’s
 
mortgage servicing rights at December 31, was
as follows:
2021
2020
Minimum
Maximum
Minimum
Maximum
Discount rates
11.00%
15.00%
11.00%
15.00%
Annual prepayment speeds
11.98%
23.79%
13.08%
23.64%
Cost of servicing (per loan)
$
60
73
$
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
15.85
% at December 31, 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
December 31, 2021.
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.
$
11,607
$
75
 
million warehouse line of credit agreement expiring in
November 2022
.
 
Interest is at the SOFR plus
2.25%
to
3.25%
.
17,371
$
28,978
Warehouse
 
line borrowings are classified as short-term borrowings.
 
At December 31, 2020, warehouse line borrowings totaled
$
74.8
 
million.
 
At December 31, 2021, the Company had mortgage loans held for sale and construction
 
permanent loans 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 December 31, 2021.
 
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, 2021 was $
14.8
 
million.