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TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES
TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES
Through January 16, 2015, William C. Erbey served as our Chairman as well as the Executive Chairman of Ocwen and Chairman of each of Home Loan Servicing Solutions, Ltd. (“HLSS”), Residential and AAMC. Effective January 16, 2015, Mr. Erbey stepped down as the Executive Chairman of Ocwen and Chairman of each of Altisource, HLSS, Residential and AAMC and is no longer a member of the Board of Directors of any of these companies. Consequently, as of January 16, 2015, these companies are no longer related parties of Altisource, as defined by FASB ASC Topic 850, Related Party Disclosures. The disclosures in this note are limited to the periods that each of Ocwen, HLSS, Residential and AAMC were related parties of Altisource and are not reflective of current activities with these former related parties.
Ocwen
Revenue
For the year ended December 31, 2014, we generated revenue from Ocwen of $650.7 million. For the period from January 1, 2015 through January 16, 2015, we estimated that we generated revenue from Ocwen of $22.9 million. Services provided to Ocwen during such periods included real estate asset management and sales, residential property valuation, trustee management services, property inspection and preservation services, insurance services, mortgage charge-off collections, IT infrastructure management and software applications.
We record revenue we earn from Ocwen under the Ocwen Service Agreements at rates we believe to be comparable market rates as we believe they are consistent with the fees we charge to other customers and/or fees charged by our competitors for comparable services.
Cost of Revenue and Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
At times, we have used Ocwen’s contractors and/or employees to support Altisource related services. Ocwen generally billed us for these contractors and/or employees based on their fully-allocated cost. Additionally, through March 31, 2015, we purchased certain data relating to Ocwen’s servicing portfolio in connection with a Data Access and Services Agreement. Based upon our previously provided notice, the Data Access and Services Agreement was terminated effective March 31, 2015. For the year ended December 31, 2014, Ocwen billed us $38.6 million for these items. For the period from January 1, 2015 through January 16, 2015, we estimated that we incurred $1.9 million of expenses related to these items. These amounts are reflected as a component of cost of revenue in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income.
We provided certain other services to Ocwen and Ocwen provided certain other services to us in connection with Support Services Agreements. These services primarily included such areas as vendor management, corporate services and facilities related services. Billings for these services were generally based on the fully-allocated cost of providing the service based on an estimate of the time and expense of providing the service or estimates thereof. For the year ended December 31, 2014, we billed Ocwen $4.5 million for these items. For the year ended December 31, 2014, Ocwen billed us $6.1 million for these items. Of the January 2015 billings to Ocwen, we estimated that $0.1 million related to the period from January 1, 2015 through January 16, 2015. Of the January 2015 billings from Ocwen, we estimated that $0.3 million related to the period from January 1, 2015 through January 16, 2015. These amounts are reflected as a component of selling, general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income.
HLSS
Prior to April 2015, HLSS was a publicly traded company whose primary objective was the acquisition of mortgage servicing rights and related servicing advances, loans held for investment and other residential mortgage related assets. We provided HLSS certain finance, human resources, tax and facilities services and sold information technology services to HLSS under a support services agreement. For the year ended December 31, 2014, we billed HLSS $0.9 million for these items. For the period from January 1, 2015 through January 16, 2015, our billings to HLSS were immaterial.
Residential and AAMC
Residential is focused on acquiring, owning and managing single-family-rental properties throughout the United States. AAMC is an asset management company that provides portfolio management and corporate governance services to investment vehicles that own real estate related assets. Its initial client is Residential.
We have agreements and amendments thereto, which extend through 2027, to provide Residential with renovation management, lease management, property management, real estate owned asset management, title insurance, settlement and valuation services. In addition, we have agreements with Residential and AAMC pursuant to which we may provide services such as finance, human resources, facilities, technology and insurance risk management. Further, we have separate agreements for certain services related to income tax matters, trademark licenses and technology products and services.
For the year ended December 31, 2014, we generated revenue from Residential of $16.0 million under these services agreements. For the period from January 1, 2015 through January 16, 2015, we estimated that we generated revenue from Residential of $1.0 million. These amounts are reflected in revenue in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income. This excludes revenue from services we provided to Residential’s loans serviced by Ocwen or other loan servicers where we were retained by Ocwen or Residential’s other loan servicers. The revenue associated with Residential’s loans serviced by Ocwen is included in Ocwen related party revenue for the year ended December 31, 2014.
For the year ended December 31, 2014, we billed AAMC $1.0 million under these services agreements, $0.1 million of which is reflected in revenue and $0.9 million of which is reflected as a component of selling, general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income. For the period from January 1, 2015 through January 16, 2015, our billings to AAMC were immaterial.