Loans Receivable, net and Loan Participations Sold

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Notes to Financial Statements

Loans Receivable, net and Loan Participations Sold

Note 3. Loans Receivable, net and Loan Participations Sold

As described in Note 1, in conjunction with our March 2011 restructuring of our recourse debt obligations, a significant portion of our assets, including all of our loans, were transferred to a majority-owned subsidiary, CT Legacy REIT. Our only remaining loan has been sold to a third-party and recorded as a participation sold asset and liability. In addition, as described in Note 2, our consolidated balance sheets separately state our direct assets and liabilities and certain assets and liabilities of consolidated subsidiaries. See Note 6 for disclosures regarding loans receivable that have been transferred to CT Legacy REIT, and see Note 7 for comparable disclosures regarding loans receivable that are held in consolidated securitization vehicles, as separately stated on our consolidated balance sheets.

Participations sold represent interests in certain loans that we originated and subsequently sold to one of our investment management vehicles or to third-parties. We present these participations sold as both assets and non-recourse liabilities because these arrangements do not qualify as sales under GAAP. Generally, participations sold are recorded as assets and liabilities in equal amounts on our consolidated balance sheets, and an equivalent amount of interest income and interest expense is recorded on our consolidated statements of operations. However, impaired loan assets must be reduced through the provision for loans losses while the associated non-recourse liability cannot be reduced until the participation has been contractually extinguished. This can result in an imbalance between the loan participations sold asset and liability. We have no economic exposure to these liabilities.

We have one such loan participation sold with a balance of $17.2 million, and a coupon of LIBOR + 5.00% as of March 31, 2012. The loan matures on November 6, 2013.