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Fair Value, Measurement With Unobservable Inputs Reconciliation, Recurring Basis, Asset, Transfer To Real Estate Owned

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Mortgage Loans Held For Investment, Change In Fair Value

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Mortgage Loans Held For Investment, Losses Incurred

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Mortgage loans held for investment, subject to nonrecourse debt - Legacy Assets, net of allowance for loan losses, respectively

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Mortgage Loans Held For Sale And Investment [Roll Forward]

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Amount of sale of financial instrument classified as an asset measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(2)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=117815213&loc=d3e19207-110258