Financial Services	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
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 $230.7 million and $164.3 million at March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively, and carried a weighted average interest rate of approximately 4.4% and 3.3%, respectively. As of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, Inspire had mortgage loans held for sale with an aggregate fair value of $199.0 million and $353.1 million, respectively, and an aggregate outstanding principal balance of $197.6 million and $342.0 million, respectively. Our net gains on the sale of mortgage loans were $0.7 million and $18.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, 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 interest rate hedging program. Mortgage loans held for sale, including the rights to service the mortgage loans, mortgage loans in process for which interest rates were committed to the borrowers (referred to as “interest rate lock commitments”), as well as the derivative instruments used to economically hedge our interest rate risk, which are typically forward commitments on mortgage-backed securities and interest rate lock commitments, are carried at fair value. Management believes carrying loans held for sale at fair value improves financial reporting by mitigating volatility in reported earnings caused by measuring the fair value of the loans and the derivative instruments used to economically hedge them. Gains and losses from the changes in fair value are reflected in financial services revenue on the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Losses from the change in fair value for mortgage loans held for sale were $9.7 million and $4.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Refer to Note 11 – Fair Value Disclosures for further information regarding our derivative instruments.

Financial Services

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

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 $230.7 million and $164.3 million at March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively, and carried a weighted average interest rate of approximately 4.4% and 3.3%, respectively. As of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, Inspire had mortgage loans held for sale with an aggregate fair value of $199.0 million and $353.1 million, respectively, and an aggregate outstanding principal balance of $197.6 million and $342.0 million, respectively. Our net gains on the sale of mortgage loans were $0.7 million and $18.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, 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 interest rate hedging program.

Mortgage loans held for sale, including the rights to service the mortgage loans, mortgage loans in process for which interest rates were committed to the borrowers (referred to as “interest rate lock commitments”), as well as the derivative instruments used to economically hedge our interest rate risk, which are typically forward commitments on mortgage-backed securities and interest rate lock commitments, are carried at fair value. Management believes carrying loans held for sale at fair value improves financial reporting by mitigating volatility in reported earnings caused by measuring the fair value of the loans and the derivative instruments used to economically hedge them. Gains and losses from the changes in fair value are reflected in financial services revenue on the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Losses from the change in fair value for mortgage loans held for sale were $9.7 million and $4.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Refer to Note 11 – Fair Value Disclosures for further information regarding our derivative instruments.