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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Percentage of adjustment to the observed price for a similar asset or liability when an identical transaction does not exist, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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Fair value portion of loans held-for-sale including, but not limited to, mortgage loans and finance receivables.

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Fair value portion of loan receivable, including, but not limited to, mortgage loans held for investment, finance receivables held for investment, policy loans on insurance contracts.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Glossary Loan
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6517073

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Fair Value Measurement - Schedule of Single Family Loans Held for Sale Measure Using Level 3 Unobservable Inputs (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2016
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Loans held for investment carried at fair value	$ 5,546		$ 5,546		$ 17,988
Loans held for sale, fair value	$ 730,042		$ 730,042		656,334
Market price movement from comparable bond (as a percent)	7.10%	0.00%	100.00%	0.00%
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Loans held for investment carried at fair value	$ 5,546		$ 5,546		17,988
Loans held for sale, fair value	730,042		730,042		656,334
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member] \| Level 3 [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Loans held for investment carried at fair value	5,546		5,546		17,988
Loans held for sale, fair value	$ 91		$ 91		$ 41,810
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member] \| Level 3 [Member] \| Loans Held for Investment [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Implied spread to benchmark interest rate curve (as a percent)			3.73%		3.62%
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member] \| Level 3 [Member] \| Loans Held for Investment [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Implied spread to benchmark interest rate curve (as a percent)			4.84%		4.97%
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member] \| Level 3 [Member] \| Loans Held for Investment [Member] \| Weighted Average [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Implied spread to benchmark interest rate curve (as a percent)			4.13%		4.49%
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member] \| Level 3 [Member] \| Loans Held for Sale [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Implied spread to benchmark interest rate curve (as a percent)			4.36%		3.46%
Market price movement from comparable bond (as a percent)			(0.58%)		(0.49%)
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member] \| Level 3 [Member] \| Loans Held for Sale [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Implied spread to benchmark interest rate curve (as a percent)			4.36%		6.14%
Market price movement from comparable bond (as a percent)			(0.14%)		(0.11%)
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member] \| Level 3 [Member] \| Loans Held for Sale [Member] \| Weighted Average [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Implied spread to benchmark interest rate curve (as a percent)			4.36%		4.23%
Market price movement from comparable bond (as a percent)			(0.36%)		(0.27%)