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Financial Services
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2021
Financial Services [Abstract]  
Financial Services 4. Financial Services

Our Financial Services are principally comprised of our mortgage lending operations, Inspire Home Loans Inc. (which we refer to as “Inspire”). Inspire is a full-service mortgage lender and primarily originates mortgage loans for our homebuyers. Inspire sells

substantially all of the loans it originates either as loans with servicing rights released, or with servicing rights retained, in the secondary mortgage market within a short period of time after origination, generally within 30 days. Inspire primarily finances these loans using its mortgage repurchase facilities. Mortgage loans in process for which interest rates were locked by borrowers, or interest rate lock commitments, totaled approximately $148.7 million and $172.3 million at June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively, and carried a weighted average interest rate of approximately 3.2% and 2.8%, respectively.  As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, Inspire had mortgage loans held for sale with an aggregate fair value of $235.7 million and $282.6 million, respectively, and an aggregate outstanding principal balance of $226.9 million and $269.6 million, respectively. Our net gains on the sale of mortgage loans were $23.9 million and $16.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and were $46.8 million and $27.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and are included in the financial services revenue on the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Interest rate risks related to these obligations are typically mitigated by the preselling of loans to investors or through our program to economically hedge interest rates.

Mortgage loans in process for which interest rates were committed to borrowers, mortgage loans held-for-sale, including the rights to service the mortgage loans, as well as the derivative instrument used to economically hedge our interest rate risk, which are typically forward commitments on mortgage backed securities, are carried at fair value and changes in fair value are reflected in financial services revenue on the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Management believes carrying loans held-for-sale and the derivative instruments used to economically hedge them at fair value improves financial reporting by more accurately reflecting the underlying transaction. Refer to Note 11 – Fair Value Disclosures for further information regarding our derivative instruments.