Paul Elenio
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at Arbor Realty Trust
These delinquencies are made up of two buckets, loans that are greater than sixty days past due and loans that are less than sixty days past due that we're not recording interest income on unless we believe the cash will be received. The 60 delinquent loans or NPLs were approximately $472,000,000 this quarter compared to $511,000,000 last quarter due to approximately $62,000,000 of loans that we took back as REO, dollars 36,000,000 of modifications and $21,000,000 of payoffs during the quarter, which was partially offset by $79,000,000 of additional defaults during the quarter. The second bucket consisted of loans that are less than sixty days past due, came down to $57,000,000 this quarter from $143,000,000 last quarter due to $48,000,000 of modifications and $48,000,000 that we took back as REO, which was partially offset by approximately $10,000,000 of new delinquencies during the quarter. And while we're making steady progress in resolving these delinquencies, we do anticipate that we will continue to experience some new delinquencies, especially if the current rate environment persists. In accordance with our plan of resolving certain delinquent loans, we've continued to take back assets as REO, and we expect to take back more over the next few quarters as Ivan mentioned.