MSRs

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Mortgage Servicing Rights MSR Disclosure [Abstract]

MSRs

As of December 31, 2019, the Company retained the servicing rights associated with an aggregate principal balance of $333,563,728 of residential mortgage loans that the Company had previously transferred to residential mortgage loan securitization trusts. The Company’s MSRs are held and managed at the Company’s TRS, and the Company employs two licensed sub-servicers to perform the related servicing activities. To the extent that the Company determines it is the primary beneficiary of a residential mortgage loan securitization trust into which it has sold loans, any associated MSRs are eliminated on the consolidation of the trust. The trust is contractually obligated to pay a portion of the interest payments from the associated residential mortgage loans for the direct servicing of the loans, and after deduction of sub-servicing fees payable to contracted sub-servicers, the net amount, excess servicing rights, represents a liability of the trust. Upon consolidation of the trust, the fair value of the excess servicing rights is equal to the related MSRs held at the Company’s TRS. In addition, the Company previously consolidated the assets and liabilities of the CSMC 2014-OAK1 Trust, but following the sale of subordinated and first loss securities during the second quarter of 2018, the Company has determined that it is no longer the primary beneficiary of the trust, and accordingly no longer consolidates its assets and liabilities. Consequently, MSRs associated with this trust are recorded on the Company's consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2019.

The following table presents the Company’s MSR activity as of the years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018:

	December 31, 2019			December 31, 2018
Balance at beginning of year	$	3,997,786		$	2,963,861
MSRs related to deconsolidation of securitization trust	—			1,025,129
Changes in fair value due to:
Changes in valuation inputs or assumptions used in valuation model	(572,963)			375,016
Other changes to fair value(1)	(724,616)			(366,220)
Balance at end of year	$	2,700,207		$	3,997,786
Loans associated with MSRs(2)	$	333,563,728		$	407,332,854
MSR values as percent of loans(3)	0.81		%	0.98		%

(1)Amounts represent changes due to realization of expected cash flows

(2)Amounts represent the unpaid principal balance of loans associated with MSRs outstanding at December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively

(3)Amounts represent the carrying value of MSRs at December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively divided by the outstanding balance of the loans associated with these MSRs

The following table presents the servicing income recorded on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018:

	Year Ended December 31, 2019		Year Ended December 31, 2018
Servicing income, net	$	869,032	$	940,090
Income from MSRs, net	$	869,032	$	940,090