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EXPECTED CREDIT LOSSES
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
EXPECTED CREDIT LOSSES [Abstract]  
EXPECTED CREDIT LOSSES

3.EXPECTED CREDIT LOSSES

The Company is exposed to credit losses primarily through trade and other financing receivables arising from revenue transactions. The Company uses the aging schedule method to estimate current expected credit losses (“CECL”) based on days of delinquency, including information about past events and current economic conditions. The Company’s accounts receivable is separated into three categories to evaluate allowance under the CECL impairment model. The receivables in each category share similar risk characteristics. The three categories include agent non-commission based fees, agent short-term advances, and commissions receivable for real estate property settlements.

The Company analyzed collectability for the three categories of receivables and concluded that only agent non-commission based fees receivables and agent short-term advances carry any risk of expected credit losses. Current economic conditions and forecasts of future economic conditions do not affect expected credit losses or collectability of real estate property settlements. The collection of these payments are in-substance guaranteed because they represent commission payments on closed transactions, and the Company has no historical experience or expectation of losses related to these receivables. Receivables from real estate property settlements totaled $49,186 as of June 30, 2020. As of

June 30, 2020, agent non-commission based fees receivable and short-term advances totaled $3,357, of which the Company recognized expected credit losses of $1,260.

The Company increases the allowance for expected credits losses when the Company determines all or a portion of a receivable is uncollectible. The Company recognizes recoveries as a decrease to the allowance for expected credit losses.

Changes in the allowance were not material for the six months ended June 30, 2020.