Residential Mortgage Loans Held-For-Securitization - Summary of Reconciliation of Carrying Value of Residential Mortgage Loans (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands		3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
		Sep. 30, 2019	Sep. 30, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Balance at beginning of period	[1]		$ 549,016
Deductions during period:
Balance at end of period	[1]	$ 483,648	483,648	$ 549,016
Residential Mortgage Backed Securities
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Balance at beginning of period			11,660
Additions during period:
Loan acquisitions		35,402	145,838	11,660
Deductions during period:
Collections of principal		(27,534)	(27,899)
Amortization of premium		(569)	(585)
Balance at end of period		$ 129,014	$ 129,014	$ 11,660

[1] The consolidated balance sheets include assets of consolidated variable interest entities, or VIEs, that can only be used to settle obligations and liabilities of the VIEs for which creditors do not have recourse to the Company. At September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, total assets of the consolidated VIEs were $485 million and $551 million (including accrued interest receivable of $1.6 million and $1.8 million), respectively (which is recorded above in the line item entitled “Interest receivable”), and total liabilities were $476 million and $541 million (including accrued interest payable of $1.6 million and $1.7 million), respectively (which is recorded in the line item above entitled “Accrued interest payable”). Please refer to Note 5, “Variable Interest Entities,” for further discussion.