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New York Community Bancorp Inc (NYCB -0.17%)
Q2Â 2020 Earnings Call
Jul 29, 2020, 8:30 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Salvatore DiMartino -- Director of Investor Relations
Good morning. This is Sal DiMartino, Director of Investor Relations. And thank you all for joining the management team of New York Community Bancorp for today's conference call. Today's discussion of the Company's second quarter 2020 performance will be led by President and Chief Executive Officer, Joseph Ficalora, and Chief
Financial Officer, Thomas Cangemi, together with Chief Operating Officer, Robert Wann, and Chief Accounting Officer, John Pinto.
Today's release includes a reconciliation of certain GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures that may be discussed during this conference call. These non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed in addition to and not as a
Substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP. Also, certain comments made on today's conference call will contain forward-looking statements that are intended to be covered by the safe harbor provisions of Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Such forward-looking statements are subjects to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause the actual results to differ materially from expectations. We undertake no obligation to and would not expect to update any such forward-looking statements after today's call. You will find more information about the risk factors that may impact the Company's forward-looking statements and financial performance in today's earnings release and in our SEC filings, including our 2019 annual report on Form 10-K and our first quarter 2020 quarterly report on Form 10-Q.
Now to start the discussion, I will now turn over the call to Mr. Ficalora who will provide an overview of the Company's second quarter performance before opening up the line for Q&A. Mr. Ficalora, please go ahead.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Sal. Good morning to everyone on the phone and on the webcast, and thank you for joining us today. I hope that everyone is doing well and hopefully some sense of normalcy is returning to your daily lives. Earlier this morning we reported diluted earnings per common share of $0.21, for the three months ended June 30, 2020, up 11% compared to the year-ago quarter and up 5% compared to the previous quarter.
Diluted earnings per share were $0.02 ahead of analyst consensus estimates. We are very pleased with our results this quarter, despite significant pandemic related challenges, economic uncertainty and social unrest during the quarter, the company performed well, as we continue to execute on our time tested strategy. Before I discuss our second quarter results in more detail, I would like to provide some color on our deferral program. After an expected initial surge in payment deferrals in April, the pace of new deferral request slowed dramatically during the second quarter.
Our deferral program is somewhat unique, in that, it is for an initial 6-month period, as opposed to a 3-month period. Therefore, any positive changes will not be evident until the fourth quarter of the year. As noted in today's presentation, at June 30th multi-family and CRE full payment deferrals totaled $5.9 billion or 15.5% of outstanding balances and weighted average LTV was 56%. Specifically, multi-family deferrals were $3.7 billion or 11.7% of the portfolio and had an LTV of 57%, while CRE deferrals were $2.2 billion or 32.5% of the portfolio and had an LTV of 52%.
The company has gone through many economic cycles and while this one is indeed different, our stringent underwriting guidelines and our longevity in the market, which have served us well during previous cycles are serving us well now. To date, the New York City real estate market, especially our non-luxury rent regulated multi-family niche has held up extremely well.
Rent collections continue to be above levels we experienced in the second quarter, in fact, we have seen month-over-month improvements throughout the second quarter and into the third quarter. Moreover, New York City has recently entered phase 4 of its reopening and many people are returning to work and many businesses are also starting to reopen. This along with state rent subsidies to landlords is having a positive impact on our borrowers cash flow.
We remain optimistic that as we get deeper into phase 4 and business and economic activity in our market begins to increase, the number of borrowers in deferral will decline dramatically. We look forward to sharing our results during our third quarter earnings call as approximately 96% of our borrowers on deferral programs come off their deferrals in October and November.
Moving now to our second quarter results. Our second quarter performance was very strong and reflects significant expansion in our net interest margin, solid top line revenue growth and lower operating expenses. This led to double-digit pre-provision net revenue growth, which is a good indicator of how well positioned we are in the current environment. And the same time, our provision for credit losses declined compared to the first quarter, while our asset quality metrics remained strong and multi-family loan growth continued.
We also announce that the Board of Directors declared a $0.17 cash dividend per common share, the dividend will be payable on August 18th to common shareholders of record as of August the 8th. Based on yesterday's closing price, this translates into an annualized dividend yield of 6.6%. The major highlights of our second quarter performance is the substantial double-digit improvement in our net interest margin. The net interest margin, excluding the impact from prepayment income was 2.09%, up 17 basis points sequentially and up 20 basis points on a year-over-year basis.
We were especially pleased with the progress made on our funding costs. Our cost of deposits declined to 1.46% during the second quarter, down 36 basis points on a linked quarter basis and down 60 basis points year-over-year. This was driven by a decline in our average cost of deposits, mostly due to the downward repricing of our CDs. Net interest income, also excluding the impact from prepayment income rose $21 million or 9% compared to the previous quarter and $29 million or 13% compared to the year ago quarter.
We continue to be well positioned for further improvements in both the margin and net interest income given the repricing opportunities embedded within our funding mix. On the expense front, our operating expenses continue to trend lower. Total non-interest expenses were $124 million, down 2% compared to the prior quarter and relative unchanged compared to a year ago quarter. The efficiency ratio was 44% and continues to reflect positive operating leverage.
I would like to point your attention to our pre-provision net revenue number where we showed strong double-digit improvements compared to the first quarter of this year and compared to the year ago second quarter. PPNR for the second quarter was $158 million, up 16% and 19% respectively. We view this number, as an important metric to focus on, as it shows the earnings power of the company and our ability to absorb credit costs, generate capital and supports our commitment to the dividend.
Moving on the balance sheet, total loans were $42.3 billion relatively unchanged compared to the previous quarter, as good growth in multi-family portfolio was offset by a decline in the CRE and specialty finance portfolios. On a year-to-date basis, total loans are up $412 million or 2% annualized. After seeing some modest growth in multi-family portfolio in the first quarter, total multi-family loan growth was stronger this quarter, increasing $325 million on a sequential basis to $31.6 billion, or up 4% annualized.
However, this was tempered by a $114 million sequential decline in the specialty finance portfolio and a $105 million decline in the CRE portfolio. The linked-quarter decrease in the specialty finance portfolio was primarily due to commercial borrowers reducing inventory and some larger borrowers accessing the public markets to raise capital and using the proceeds to pay down debt. Despite this, we see the specialty finance business reverting to form next quarter.
Origination activity continue to be very strong as total loan originations excluding PPP loans increased 21% on a linked-quarter basis to $3.3 billion, led by multi-family originations, which increased 70%, to $2.4 billion. Second quarter originations exceeded last quarter's pipeline by $1.2 billion or 60%. Speaking of the pipeline, we continue to see strong demand from our borrowers as our current pipeline is $2.2 billion, 5% greater than the first quarter pipeline. Importantly, included in the pipeline is approximately $1.3 billion or 60% of new money.
On the funding side, total deposits declined $243 million or 3% on an annualized basis compared to the prior quarter. Continuing the trend from the prior quarter, CDs declined $2.1 billion, primarily, due to the drop in market interest rates at the end of the first quarter and the company's strategy to significantly reduce the rates it offers on CDs. Most of this decline was offset by solid growth in other, lower cost deposit categories.
Our wholesale borrowings increased modestly compared to the previous quarter, as advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York increased $75 million. On the asset quality side, our overall asset quality metrics continue to be very strong, we reported a provision for credit losses under CECL of $18 million, down from the $21 million we reported in the first quarter of the year.
This exceeded net charge-offs by $14 million and led to an increase in the allowance for loan losses. We had no charge-offs in either quarter in our core portfolio, net charge-offs totaled $4 million was 0.01% of average loans, compared to $10 million was 0.02% of average loans in the prior quarter. Majority of the charge-offs in both periods were taxi medallion-related.
Non-performing assets were relatively stable, increasing $4 million or 7% compared to the first quarter level. This translates into 12 basis points of total assets compared to 11 basis points last quarter. Excluding non-performing taxi medallion-related assets NPAs would have been $30 million or 5 basis points of total assets compared to $28 million last quarter, also 5 basis points of total assets.
Lastly, I'd like to end my formal comments by once again thanking all those who continue to serve on the front lines of this crisis, the doctors, the nurses and all other first responders and to our employees, management and Board, here at New York Community who have shown extraordinary dedication during this most difficult time.
On that note, I would now ask the operator to open the line for your questions. We will do our best to get to all of your questions within the time remaining, but if we don't, please feel free to call us later in the week. Operator?
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question is from Ebrahim Poonawala with Bank of America. Please proceed.
Ebrahim Poonawala -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Good morning.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, Ebrahim.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Good morning, Ebrahim.
Ebrahim Poonawala -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
I guess, just first if you could just, give me -- the net interest margin, very strong this quarter, but CD cost still at 2% Tom, just talk to us in terms of, you previous guidance of double-digit margin expansion every quarter this year, do you still expect that? And what are we seeing on the multi-family loan yields and the CD costs as we look into the back half of the year?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yes, good morning, Ebrahim. So that's right, we had an improved margin in the Q2. Obviously, the margin was a beat, we expected the margin to be up 10 basis points, it was up 17. Going into Q3 and Q4, we still anticipate double-digit margin expansion for each quarter throughout the remainder of 2020. So we're very bullish about the margin improving further from here, given that we still have a substantial amount of CDs repricing as well as borrowings repricing and overall spreads in the multi-family side is still very strong.
If you think about in the next three months, we have about $5.4 billion of CDs repricing at 1.99% and going out for the next 12 months it's $12.7 billion, that's going to reprice at 1.69%. Our current offering rate right now in the market, our highest rate is 65 basis point, that's a seven month CD and many customers are just going into the short-term CD, which is three months at 50 basis points and in many circumstances, many customers are just ending up in post-maturity as given the pandemic, and that's a 2 basis points cost of funds and the type of post-maturity numbers.
So we've been clearly getting significant improvements there. As far as overall yields in the multi-family side, we were fortunate to have that very nice spread throughout the pandemic, so we're still around that 300 basis point spread, albeit, there has been some competition as of late from the agencies. So we're mindful of that, but the economic spread clearly is a much better spread than it was in the previous year.
Ebrahim Poonawala -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Got it. And I guess, just moving to the multi-family space talk to us in terms of what do you expect like if in -- activity you gave pipeline numbers, but just what's the health of the market as you think about coming out of this COVID, clearly, a lot of concerns around the New York City economy. And like do you really expect a lot of activity and biased coming in if there is enough price discovery happening? Give us some color around that and your expectations for growth...
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
So Ebrahim, I think what's -- yeah, i think what's encouraging is that we've improved our retention rate as expected this year, above the 50 percentile. So the goal here to get to our 5% net loan growth story for 2020 was to get our people focused on what's coming due. As you are aware of the significant amount of money coming due in the next few years, so we're targeting those types of customers and anticipating a very high retention rate, as compared to the previous year.
Although 50% -- I think the number was 52% for the quarter, we anticipate that to continue throughout the year that is key for our expectation to continue our net loan growth story for 2020. As far as purchase and sales transactions, as you can imagine during the COVID pandemic there wasn't any. We're hearing this from deals that are coming through in Q3 and Q4, and we'll be mindful of that. So we believe that the second half will be the opportunity to see some activity in the marketplace. But it's been pretty much at a zero level throughout the second quarter because of the COVID pandemic.
That being said, we have a very strong pipeline, the $2.2 billion, of which 60% of that is new money, and the yield is still very strong. I believe the overall pipeline yield coming out into the third quarter is about a 324 yields. So that's impressive yield, it is still hovering around that 300 basis point spread.
Ebrahim Poonawala -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Got it. Thanks for taking my questions.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Sure.
Operator
Our next question is from Mark Fitzgibbon with Piper Sandler. Please proceed.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, Mark.
Mark Fitzgibbon -- Piper Sandler Companies -- Analyst
I'm wondering if first you could give us a sense for what rent collections look like today on your rent regulated, non-rent regulated, multi-family buildings?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yes. So, Mark, I would tell you that... Go ahead, Joe.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
No, I was just going to say that our rent collections have been quite strong, despite the expectations or the headlines that are occurring with regard to other lenders, in our circumstance, we are in a very good place and is not a typical for us to have tenants that have every expectation and capacity to stay in their apartments. So we are getting a very good flow of payments from our tenants.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
So, Mark, I would say specifically when you look at quarter-over-quarter we are above at 85 percentile to 90 percentile on rent collected from the, obviously, the multi-family side. That is very strong, each month as we evaluate that it's becoming strong as we go through the summer months here. So as far as the third quarter is concerned, obviously -- it's beginning of -- end of July and we see some very strong numbers coming through as far as collections.
As far as the overall portfolio, when you think about the deferrals and you look -- think about what's going on with the multi-family side, I believe, approximately 42% of those loans that are in deferral have a 100% rent-regulated on the multi-family side. In the total multi-family side, I believe 62% had some form of rent regulation. So we're mindful of that given the magnitude of the rent stabilized portfolio and the level of the payments of -- that's coming in, we feel very confident that those customers will revert back to full payment status as we get back to the second half of the year, because our payment deferral problem starts to kick-in into October, November. So we're mindful of that.
Time frame change, however, the good news here is that the collection that we see, because we have the operating accounts, we're seeing the money coming in on a monthly basis. So we're very pleased with the overall cash flows.
Mark Fitzgibbon -- Piper Sandler Companies -- Analyst
Okay. And then, I know asset quality has really been amazing there over time. But does it make sense to continue to build reserves given the uncertainties today in the world?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Well, Mark, you know that the history -- the company's history has a pristine asset quality metrics. So if you think about we adopted CECL in Q1 in quantitative versus qualitative, I would allocate, two-thirds of our reserve is -- at this point in time qualitative and a third is quantitative, because we don't have a history of any significant losses.
So when you think about the magnitude of the rent stabilized portfolio, we this -- these numbers a high for us. So obviously, we were very public about our guidance that Q1, we felt that was going to be the largest reserve through adoption of CECL as we monitor the macroeconomic backdrop, that will change over time. But it appears that given where the current portfolio is leaning toward, we anticipate to have a very manageable transition as we go toward the end of the year. And hopefully, as the city comes back to full phase 4, we'll start to see better performance metrics. But it's a -- obviously, it's too soon to tell. But the overall macroeconomic backdrop when we run into our CECL calculations, it's mostly qualitative.
Mark Fitzgibbon -- Piper Sandler Companies -- Analyst
Okay. And then lastly, I think, you said in the release, you have a $103 million of PPP loans held for sale. What are the economics of holding those loans versus selling them today look like and is that the plan to sell those in 3Q?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yes, inmaterial. It's a $100 million on 1% type return that -- it's not going to be a -- immaterial number that plus the fees are insignificant for the company. We will -- I'll tell you, imagine, most of our customers were not eligible. Property owners given this structure were not eligible to tap the PPP funds. So we were there for our customers that had eligibility and also for customers that were not getting -- non-customers that were not getting access to PPP to the money center banks. So we stepped in locally as a community player. However, we did not do a whole lot of PPP. We had the program in place, but most of our customers were not eligible.
Mark Fitzgibbon -- Piper Sandler Companies -- Analyst
Thank you.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Sure.
Operator
Our next question is from Steve Moss with B. Riley FBR. Please proceed.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Hi, good morning. Steve
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Good morning, Steve.
Steve Moss -- B. Riley FBR, Inc. -- Analyst
I just want to start, Just on the loan growth front. You mentioned in terms of the quarter, you are expecting the -- are you at a point were expecting a rebound in the specialty claims portfolio, kind of wondering what drives comfort there? And then, just for the back half of year, pipeline looking pretty good. It's kind of like, do you still think close to mid-single-digits for 2020 is good or maybe just a little bit below?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. So Steve, I would say, we still feel very confident, the second half will be stronger than the first half. Obviously, we're coming out of the depths of the pandemic and with respect to specialty finance that's obvious, many companies were buckling down their cash position, they were hovering, managing inventory differently given the lack of economic activity that will pick-up. Capital markets were very strong for that business. So many of these A-rated companies had access to very attractive alternative financing to the capital markets and they paid in a -- they cumulative loss of cash and paid down some of the shorter-term liabilities.
We anticipate them to draw down some cash as they build up more inventory for anticipated better economic activity as the country comes out of the pandemic. So we believe that we should be on track. I mean the growth has been phenomenal in specialty finance over the years. I believe, we'll still be on track for that 25% to 20% type net growth on specialty finance.
I think if you look at where we are today, we are 23% annualized. So we should see some growth for specialty finance through the second half of the year. As far as multi, multi-family is driven predominantly right now from within our own portfolio as well as getting other transactions within the marketplace refinancing. It's not purchase and sales. We believe eventually there will be the opportunity where buyers and sellers come together and we will participate in the financing of that. So it's been very slow in Q2 as expected. We've been doing a bunch of non-deal roadshows, Joe and I, and we've been very public, that didn't expect to see a whole lot of growth. We are very pleased that we did have net multi-family growth through the quarter and we anticipate that to pick-up in second half.
So that means for us based on a retention of north of 50% of our own portfolio, we should be in line to get that low mid -- low color mid-single digit net loan growth.
Steve Moss -- B. Riley FBR, Inc. -- Analyst
Okay, that's helpful. And then just in terms of the provision this quarter, kind of curious as to what the economic assumptions and the drivers were there?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
I mean, pretty much, obviously, we're more inclined to deal with the issues from CoStar's economic forecast. We have the most recent CoStar's baseline forecast, that's that was released as of April 28th as of March 31st and we have the Moody's economic scenario, which is the baseline forecast released on June 9th as of May 31st. So those are the current forecast that we run with.
I'd say for us, it's more driven off a property price declines, since we are real estate based, we are not a C&I lender. So you think about unemployment and bankruptcies alike that really drive some of the C&I players. So when you look at the overall backdrop economic landscape that we're using, we still have a substantial amount of this CECL calculation, that's qualitative, just because of the history of the bank that has no losses as we look at the portfolio. But clearly, property price declines will then drive CECL more so than unemployment factor.
Steve Moss -- B. Riley FBR, Inc. -- Analyst
All right, thank you very much.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Sure.
Operator
Our next question is from Collyn Gilbert with KBW. Please proceed.
Collyn Gilbert -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. -- Analyst
Thanks, good morning gentlemen.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Good morning Collyn.
Collyn Gilbert -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. -- Analyst
Just on the deferrals, do you -- so providing the vacancy rates in the multi-family book was super helpful, thank you for that -- in the slide deck. But just curious how those vacancy rates might look on the deferred loans. Do you have that by any chance?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
So what -- again we're going to be one quarter behind everybody else, given the nature of our program, Collyn. So as Mr. Ficalora indicated in his prepared remarks, we give a 6-month program. I will tell you with certainty, where we stand today, the conversations we're having with our customers is getting out of the program, because they're ready to pay. So we haven't had any adverse discussion and people looking for expansion but it's too early to tell. But that being said, we did a relatively deep dive into the portfolio that we have. It's on deferral. We looked at our CRE book on retail, we looked at CRE book on office and what be determine when we pulled the files and we went back to the customers and tried to evaluate the cash flows, it appears that when we look at the retail portfolio we have -- we reviewed approximately 90% of our CRE retail deferrals and 74% of those loans reviewed have rents coming from the central businesses. 54% of those loans reviewed have 50% or more of the rents coming from essential businesses. So that gives us some encouragement that despite the pandemic, they were still collecting -- the booking sales. Well obviously they have the capacity to pay some form back to the bank as far as debt to service coverage. With respect to office, a little bit different, we reviewed a approximately -- still in the process, we've reviewed approximately 70% of the CRE office deferrals and note that 88% of those loans reviewed have rents coming from essential businesses, of which 31% of the loans reviewed have more than 50% coming from essential businesses. So they are still open. I mean, not everyone is open, but they were getting into phase 4 and we feel that, overall, we should have a good showing at the end of the year with a lot of these particular credits coming off deferral.
Just another note there, on the specialty finance side 100% of our specialty finance loans coming off deferral in July, made their payments, so we had approximately $200 million in total. I believe, $90 million as -- we have $90 million of that paid in July, we believe the rest will be procured in August. So we're very confident that it is very low loss -- no loss content in the specialty finance business.
Collyn Gilbert -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. -- Analyst
Okay, that's very helpful. And just kind of along those lines, right. If we play this out, everything that's happening, New York City and understanding, obviously things are starting to open up, but it's so, the city is just obviously so different than what it was before. If we play this through. I mean, where do you -- when you, some of your borrowers, where would vacancy rates need to go to really start to stress some of your borrowers?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Its interesting point. Obviously, our debt coverage ratios upon origination are very strong. Obviously, that's changed as there is no income coming in. So you think about the weighted average debt service coverage ratio with respect to our CRE portfolio, I believe, that number's at 170. So think about the coverage there. We typically underwrite at a more conservative level as Mr. Ficalora indicated, the average LTV is low 51.92%. I mean, look at the areas that we want to say may have more difficulty, let's say, for example, commercial mix used, what you have is more of a concentration of businesses struggling to reopen and you have less residential above that, that LTV is at 48%.
So you really have real deep equity embedded in these credits and a lot to walk away from. So no one's knocking on the door and saying here take my keys we are going to have a 48% LTV, so we're in a very good spot. We believe that it's going to take a little time for some of those other types of credits, however, when you look at the majority of the portfolio, which is multi-family rent collections are high. I mean, they're 90% high, which is pretty impressive.
And we bear in mind, we have lots of stimulus within the government intervention today and probably more to come, which will continue to help people pay their rents and then we have high unemployment pockets within this city, different aspects of the city, in particular the Bronx. And I would say on an LTV perspective, we were very cautious in Manhattan, so our overall LTVs in Manhattan are always lower. The numbers are just more attractive as far as how we lend in Manhattan than we do in the Bronx because of -- we're very cautious about cap rates and the value expansion over the past 20 years. So we think that we have a very low leveraged portfolio with -- that's backed by a substantial amount of wealthy property owners that have real long-term equity built into the game here.
Collyn Gilbert -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. -- Analyst
Okay.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
The rent rolls are very stable in our buildings because that people themselves, the tenants have rent control, rent stabilization, they can move to a new building and get that same benefit, so they want to maintain that apartment, they want to maintain rent control.
So we have a very high concentration of people, tenants that are inclined to stay in the buildings they're in, because they have huge economic advantage. That really plays extremely well, even in an environment such as this.
Collyn Gilbert -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. -- Analyst
Okay and then just one follow-up, just another kind of broad question, in terms of your pipeline, right, you said 60% is new money, what's kind of it -- what's the sort of the background or the dynamic of that -- of those borrowers coming in?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Just getting business from other banks, right. We're in this space, this is our core business model. Other banks that are going through their own issues and struggling we focus in this multi-family CRE niche in this particular marketplace. So clearly getting loans from other banks that are coming up for renewal you can imagine, how much is out that it has to be renewed. We have a substantial amount of our own that have to be renewed in the next year-and-a-half, so that's going to be the focus, until the property transaction start to occur. We believe, that will eventually pickup. And the good news there, you're starting from zero, so we're growing with no property transactions.
When the market does pickup we believe, we'll be a participant there and do solid credits.
Collyn Gilbert -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. -- Analyst
Okay. Okay, that's helpful. I'll leave it there. Thanks guys.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Sure.
Operator
Our next question is from Ken Zerbe with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Hey, Ken.
Ken A. Zerbe -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Hey, Tom. In terms of the -- your expectation for the low-to-mid single-digit loan growth this year, is that going to be driven by the rebound in specialty finance or more on the multi-family side?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
I'll say both. I mean obviously, we were slightly down in Q2 on specialty finance. We've been historically, growing it very nicely. We've turned on a lot of deals there is more pricing this quarter, but we had, as I indicated, significant access to the capital markets and given the pandemic many businesses were slow to react and they were harboring cash, as the economy opens up these businesses will draw down.
We have some other businesses that we're drawing down because they were very busy example and like for example Albertsons, for example, they're taking down financing because they have a tremendous amount of of selling of grocery, so there's is an example of one taking down credit where others are harboring credit.
We think we'll see some good momentum on the cause and inventory as there is a tremendous demand, there is just no inventory out there to sell cars, but I think for the most part, I think all of our core businesses in the specialty finances was thought at least, all these accessing credit on their line. We have a very significant line, if you look at the roll forward of our reserve, we had a large commitment contingency built on CECL, because of the substantial line, because we had so many pay-offs, but we think that will improve. And as far as multi-family, we think that we'll continue to grow throughout the year, hopefully, at a stronger pace in the second half. And CRE is on the table, CRE is one up here in the ebb and I don't envision a lot of CRE growth but pure CRE, but multi-family and specialty finance should be the contributing factors toward the plug for that potentially mid single-digit net loan growth that we plan to achieve for the end of the year.
Ken A. Zerbe -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Got it. Okay. And then it sounds like you're borrowers are in fairly good financial health, but just out of curiosity, if they did come to October or November, do you have the ability to put them on another six month's deferral or do they have to come off?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Sure. Sure. Look, it is a lot of flexibility right now, because we're still in a black swan event of pandemic that's being supported by the government, as well as the regulators. We believe there will be some further, i guess, guidance as we move along throughout the year. But we're just one quarter behind Ken. And that's, if someone put us in a competitive disadvantage when you talk about the book, because we -- I would love to give you more information about our customers are just in midway through their referral program. We believe that on the multi-family side given the magnitude of cash flows coming in that we see every day, because we have the bank accounts. We see the operating accounts and the cash flow coming in and we've talked to the largest customers the collections are high.
And as I indicate, there is a lot of government stimulus that's assisting that. As far as office and CRE and commercial mixed use that it's going to be a matter of the reopening phase and the strength of the borrowers. And given that we're very frugal on our lending and we are very focused as being conservative stringent underwriters, we have a lot of deep value of equity. So we believe that if they do need help, we can give them help, it's going to be a case-by-case basis.
I know a lot of our overall customers that are, let's say we'll call them the small mom and pop neighborhood type businesses will be supported by the tenants as they come back into the city. But the city is still going through this phase 4 reopening and it's going to take a little time, but we do have...
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
By the way, we also, yeah, just so I could add. We also have a higher rate of interest on every dollar we differ. So when you take massive amounts of money that are being deferred at rates that we could not get in the marketplace, it's very attractive to the bottom line.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. And Ken, do you time? I'm going to repeat it again, it's important that the conversations we're having right now is that they don't want to accrue any more interest, they want to pay their bills because they have the cash flow. So as you give them six months of balance sheet time to bring collections in and they have an abundance of cash, they're still accruing interest. So they want to stop the accrual of interest and pay and get back to normal payment status. Could they be collecting most of your rents every month, you have the capacity to pay. That's the conversations that are happening. So we're excited as we go into Q3, and in the beginning of Q4, we should be in a position to see a substantial rollback of these deferrals. And whatever has to be dealt what we'll deal with it as it comes along in particular under the CARES Act there is a lots of flexibility.
Ken A. Zerbe -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Got it, OK. And just really quick last question. In terms of the expense outlook obviously expenses came in lower than your guidance for this quarter. How are you thinking about it for the rest of the year?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
So it's interesting. We -- obviously, given the pandemic we're spending less money for the most part. But we are definitely focused on efficiency, good news is that we anticipate by the end of the year, we can hit that 42% efficiency ratio at the -- not on a full year average, but hopefully by the quarterly average, and that was the original plan.
So we probably beat our plan by $10 million to $15 million to recall back the last year's guidance we assumed in 2020 we'll be between $510 million and $520 million, we could probably have $500 million, so I'd say it's reasonable to bring that down for the year to $500 million, which will be flat year-over-year.
So we're very happy about where we are. For the quarter, Q3 will probably be around $125 million, we were $124 million last quarter, we should be around the same, so we're very pleased with the containment efforts that we're showing here as a business, but it's well contained and hopefully, as we have growth, we'll have operating leverage with significant margin expansion as we go into -- throughout 2020. Margins holding are very nicely and we still feel highly confident that we'll have that double-digit margin expansion every quarter this year. Now we've got a lot of margin in Q2, more than I expected, 70% better than guidance, but that has a lot to do with the dynamic of the marketplace and the accelerant, Fed adjustments that were taking place. And as we can all realize we are liability sensitive -- double-digit liability sensitive institution. So we should benefit from lower loan growth scenario by the Fed.
Ken A. Zerbe -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Alright, I appreciate it. Thanks.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Sure.
Operator
Our next question is from Steven Duong with RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed.
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Hi, good morning, guys.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Hi, Steve.
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Hi.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Good morning.
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Morning. On the risk weighting for your multi-family portfolio, can you remind us again, weight for loans that adjust the LTV threshold is 75% and is it correct that debt service coverage is 115%?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
No, I believe, it's 80%.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
That's rough number right. Fixed rate...
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, fixed rate's 80%
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
I think, that's right
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
120% is the coverage ratio.
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Okay. And that's for adjustable rate loans, is that right or fixed?
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Fixed.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Fixed rate.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
80% and 125% is fixed rate.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, 125%.
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
And then just like, how you guys...
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
So Steve, let me just explain upon that Steve, just to be clear. We are in under the CARES Act. We believe we have flexibility right now, because we have a building that has no cash flow, you're not going to be penalized from the previous year's financial statements. If no one's is paying -- if there is no -- if the business is closed. So we think there will be flexibility, we've actually had considerable dialog regarding that throughout the industry. When we reopened fully and we looked at the new cash flows, we believe that there is some good coverage. In the most part, our coverage is very high, I indicated that we're 170 on our CRE book. I believe our multi-family book that was in deferral's at 153. So there is a lot of room there as we get to that stage.
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Well that's good color. On new loans, how are you guys approaching the appraisals, given I guess, the lack of transactions and the shutdown like, I'm just trying to understand like how you guys are doing that?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Well, you can imagine, it's with abundance of caution, obviously, I would tell you that when customers are pulling down some money to cash out refi, we're very conservative, we're holding back multiple months of proceeds, were holding back escrow, we are holding back any items that we fill needs to be escrow as far as, as we get to the pandemic. We're also taking out a certain percentage of an adjustment, based on appraised value, just because there is an abundance of caution. And if you're not selling you're building and you want to -- you have to refi and you think you have real value, we are willing to do a cash out refi but at a much lesser amount. We may lose deals because of that and that's fine. So it will be more an abundance of caution type lender, that's the history of the company.
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Great, thanks. And then just moving on, your loan spreads are still pretty high, if rates are permanently at this level, would you expect the spreads to remain where they are?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Steve, we're going to be in the market. So obviously we had a good shot in Q2 as the agencies pullback. The agencies are back today. So there is no -- let's not fool ourselves that we do compete with the government. The government is probably the largest player in the marketplace and is tighten up their spreads, but they also are hovering on yield maintenance. If you're comfortable with yield maintenance, then you may go with the government. Some of the largest players will go with the government and put that loan on the shelf for an extended period of time. But for the most part as a portfolio lender, giving that we are -- flexibility as far as structure, personal guarantees, as well as dealing with the cross-collateralization, we have the ability to be competitive, and I'd say the biggest fear today is that you deal with the government and the government rates tend to be tightening when they have a large appetite. And their appetite is significant. But we'll compete and if we have to be a little bit less than 300 we will be within the market.
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Got it. And just one last one from me, Joe, you had mentioned that people are heading back to work with the reopening in New York market. Roughly in your opinion, where are we in terms of activity versus a year ago?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Well, as you know, it's very hard to say, because there is not consistency in how this evolves. But I would say to you that that the marketplace today and prospectively, represents, depending on the nature of the asset, the kind of asset, we're talking about. A period of uncertainty that has the potential for some of the revenue sources to dissipate.
Most important, however for us, is that we have the vast majority of our people, our tenants, that have extraordinarily attractive rents and they want to maintain those relationships. They are highly motivated to do that. So despite the fact that there could be a first floor tenant that is not driving revenue because there are not sufficient numbers of people in the marketplace, using their store. The vast majority of the rents we collect are not driven by that.
So I'd say that we're in a good place and we will continue over the course of this evolving cycle to be in a place where the vast majority of our revenue is in fact continuing. We don't have tenants that even for example, if a person is in a rent control department and they virtually have a loss of their job, they would borrow money to stay in that appointment, because that appointment is the most valuable asset they possess. The idea that we will have ongoing revenues from the properties that we lend on is extraordinarily high and different than the vast majority of lenders in the New York market. So that distinction needs to be fully grasped. It has occurred cycle after cycle, that's why our assets continue to perform even in difficult periods. So, when massive foreclosures are occurring, our assets are performing. Our owners are actually able to go out and buy the foreclosed properties.
So this is not atypical from the standpoint of the consistency of performance in the unique differences in our asset mix, but this is a period, which will continue to provide opportunity for the owners of our buildings to take advantage of those buildings that where way overpriced, that did not have a stable good tenancy, that did not have rent control or stabilization as a significant component of the revenue stream. That is for us, a distinguishing characteristic,
So anyway, I'm very pleased that our current situation is demonstrating the uniqueness of our business model and I think as we go quarter-by-quarter into the future, it will be more and more obvious in the differences between how we perform and how others perform.
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Great. Appreciate the color.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Sure.
Operator
Our next question is from Matthew Breese with Stephens. Please proceed.
Matthew Breese -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
Good morning.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, Matt.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Good morning, Matt.
Matthew Breese -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
Hey, just a follow-up on the appraisal process, what are you seeing for new rent-regulated New York City multi-family cap rates? How they have been adjusted. Or are the appraisers adjusting cap rates, not adjusting cap rates and adjusting rents or pro forma rents? Just curious, how on their side things have change and what the implied valuation changes of multi-family could be?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
So, Matt, I'd say the transactions that you reflect was back in the third and fourth quarter of last year, we had some notable large 100% rent-regulated buildings that traded and those cap rates around 5%. I believe that's still consistent. There hasn't been an adjustment, despite lower interest rates, despite the direction of interest rates, you think that -- that actually on a quarter-over-quarter basis from Q3 to Q4 last year there was a slight drop, but with an abundance of question, when you look at the appraisals, you tend to be reappraising internally and you tend to put your stop gaps on certain aspects of the rent roll in order to be more conservative. But I don't think, we saw any magnitude adjustment yet in the cap rates. However, it typically correlate to lower interest rates, so that has not changed much. So the fact that rates are lower, cap rates have held constant over the past six months.
Matthew Breese -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
Got it, OK. And then just looking at the geographic breakdown of your multi-family exposure, there are $6 billion outside of the State of New York, just curious, how this segment or the portfolio has held up? And if there is any major notable differences in rent collection?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yes. So we did a deep dive on the portfolio regarding the magnitude of the deferral. Let just talk about the deferrals, when you think about the breakdown, I'd say we have a $1 billion that's in the Bronx, a little less than a $1 billion in Manhattan, all locations, approximately $3.6 billion, most of the deferrals are coming from the five borrowers. As far as outside the city, it's insignificant, the deferrals that kind of gives you an indication that the city was probably hit the hardest, in respect to people that had looked for relief as an abundance of caution. I truly believe, that many customers that have multiple assets with the bank looked at the marketplace when COVID hit that, the relief was there, let's use the relief, see how we make out, and as the cash flow continues to come in every month and their balance sheet start to swell with excess cash they're accruing interest. So I feel highly confident on the multi-family side that you're going to see a substantial amount of the deferrals come off -- deferral come up one -- in November 1. That being said, you have a -- we don't have a whole lot of exposure outside of the five boroughs and the New York City marketplace, so we do have credits in New Jersey, we have some in Philly and in Baltimore area, Main Line Philly, but again, if you think about the magnitude of the portfolio, it is really New York City dependent.
Matthew Breese -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
Yeah. Got it, OK. You mentioned commercial mixed used as a category that's seeing some stress could you just talk about why that asset class in particular, might be or is more exposed in the current environment? Is it just simply the nature of that bottom floor commercial tenant? And then the amount disclosed which is super helpful is that solely CRE mixed use? And I'm just curious, if there is additional mixed used in the multi-family bucket?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
So we've identified and we'll just identify it again, it's in our public filing this morning that the commercial piece is approximately $334 million of the $706 million, so we have $706 million of commercial mixed use, which is where we believe may have some additional difficulties given the magnitude of the rent roll that's still in the process of reopening. I mean, you think about that as percentage of the portfolio that's 47% of that book is looking for some help because these businesses were completely shut down for the most part.
However, the LTV in that book is 48%, so it's a very low leverage portfolio with a very high debt service coverage ratio upon pre-COVID. And obviously, the 65% of the revenues coming from the ground floor and let's say for example, you have a five-story walk up they're going to need maybe, additional help down the road that there is no question, that's a possibility. We don't know, it's too soon, but it's just logical to assume that given that the highest percentage of deferral is where the area of focus is.
Matthew Breese -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
And is there additional mixed use in the multi-family portfolio?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yes. The way we categorize is multi-family versus commercial, it's all the same percentage it goes into commercial, so over 60% -- 50% goes into commercial less than that many buildings have some component of ground floor revenues that's coming from commercial.
Matthew Breese -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
Got it, OK. And then just lastly, could you just talk about M&A? In this environment you do have a currency advantage. Are there any discussions taking place? And if so, can you talk about that a little bit and then remind us of what you're looking for in terms of geography, size, balance sheet profile in a partner?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Joe you want to add?
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. I think there is no escaping the fact that we have a long history of being informed as to the kinds of opportunities that the marketplace presents. Our currency is very well suited in many cases, not all, but in many cases our currency is very well suited to create accretive transactions.
So there are partners who have sought dialog, so as to understand whether we do or do not and then under what circumstances we might be willing to do a transaction. It is part and parcel of how we look at the value creation that we've accomplished over our public life, and that we intend to accomplish into the future.
There are no banks that we've combined with, that didn't wind up having a substantially better performing currency their investment in their company paid them far more by investing with us. So as you very well may imagine there are many people that are very familiar with and then, I'm talking about not just CEOs but also bankers that are very familiar with our track record and our desire to do accretive deals.
So you could assume that we have opportunities that are being analyzed and that there is good reason to believe that the future period will present adequate opportunity for us to execute on an accretive deal. Importantly, we will do deals that are good for our shareholders. The only reason we ever do a deal is because we believe it creates greater value for shareholders. There are no deals that we've ever done that didn't create greater value for our shareholders.
So, yes, in this period and in the period, which may become more difficult into the future, there will be opportunities where the differential between our currency and our target's currency should be sufficient to be an obvious value creation for all of us. There is only one currency in a deal, that's the surviving currency and every deal we have ever done has created a greater value for those that took our currency.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
And Matt, I will just add to Joe's commentary that we're not going to do a transaction that's going to take down tangible book value, so that's one of our limiting factors. So as you can imagine, as the stock improves then we will be more desirable to do something here. But given where our currency is right now, as Joe indicated, certain transactions just can't happen because of the partners currency, it has to be tangible book value accretive, that's just something that we feel very strongly about.
Matthew Breese -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
Got it. I appreciate it. Thanks for taking my questions.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Sure.
Operator
Our next question is from Peter Winter with Wedbush Securities. Please proceed.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Morning, Peter.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Morning, Peter.
Peter J. Winter -- Wedbush Securities -- Analyst
Good morning. I was curious, how much exposure do you guys have to the 1031 exchange? And the reason I ask is if Joe Biden were to win, part of his tax plan is to eliminate the 1031 exchange tax incentive?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Got it. So, Pete, let me let me handle that. So obviously, we do not have a 1031 exchange business, but our customers do play in that space, so the value creation that's been created to the New York City, real estate market has been through the 1031 exchange. As you're fully aware the deferral of taxation through literally generational holdings is the impetus on many players being creating more value time-over-time all the generational holdings as they utilize the tax code. Under the Trump administration they locked in that 1031 exchange for real estate where other lines of businesses were excluded from that. So we do not have a business that is a 1031 exchange business, other banks do that business, we just participate in the purchase and sales, which facilitates the transaction. So I will tell you and with clarity if that does happen, it's not good for the real estate.
Peter J. Winter -- Wedbush Securities -- Analyst
Right.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Okay.
Peter J. Winter -- Wedbush Securities -- Analyst
Then that's my only question.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Great Pete. Thank. I hope you're wrong by the way.
Operator
Our next question is from Christopher Marinac with Janney Montgomery Scott. Please proceed.
Christopher Marinac -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Hey, thanks, good morning. I appreciate all the information this morning. I just wanted to ask about the CET1 ratio, under the scenario that Joe was just talking with the merger. Is there a lower band to where you may take that just temporarily on a closing, and then obviously, you would improve as you retain earnings?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
I would say, look as we talked about capital is king for us. We don't -- we have a very strong capital allocation process, because we have a low risk bank, but the last time we want to do is do a transaction and take our ratios down. So if we were to be successful on announcing a transaction you'd assume that ratio would improve right at announcement and at closing, that's clearly one of our deciding factors and when looking at combining two institutions together improving capital position.
Christopher Marinac -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Okay, great that's helpful and then just a quick one. I know you've talked a lot about asset yields, but is there any relation to the history back in 2009 and '10 when rates reset to how the asset yields held up then, it just seems that they're holding up better now and maybe that's an advantage for you well beyond that door?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
No. It's interesting you mentioned that. So obviously let me just go back to 2014, 2014 and the end of '13 is where we had the low for longer scenario with the Fed that had rates close to zero for extended period of time, which is kind of where we are today and our cost of deposits was 50 -- as low as 58 basis points. I think right now we're at a 116 basis points on cost of deposits.
So we have a lot of room there. On the asset side, we had a much stronger asset yield because those rates are coming down from a much higher plateau. The negative is that you have refi yields coming down to literally slightly less than where they were a year ago, so the 3.20% and 3.30%s are being refinanced at 3%, 3.10%, 3.15% so you're not getting the benefit, but the cost of funds drop is significant.
It's conceivable that we can go below the cost of deposits scenario where we were in '13 and '14 if the Fed continues to keep their rates close to zero and that's a very -- that's a reasonable scenario. So you'll make it up on the cost of fund side. We have -- and during that period our borrowing costs were dramatically higher. So, we have approximately $975 million remaining in 2020 at a 1.78% on the wholesale side and 2021 we have about $1.1 billion at 2.03% and if you think where the market is on, let's say two year bullets, three year bullets, it's 40-50 basis points. Okay, and potentially going lower. So I think there the positive here is that we're going to do as much as we can to get reasonable spreads, we can't control the market, but we will be lending. But the cost of liabilities for our model is coming down significantly in a zero for longer scenario great.
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Great, Tom. That's helpful. Thank you, again.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Sure.
Operator
Our next question is from Dave Rochester with Compass Point. Please proceed.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, Dave.
David Rochester -- Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC -- Analyst
Hey, good morning, guys.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Good morning, Dave.
David Rochester -- Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC -- Analyst
I appreciate all the guidance on the expense side. I was just wondering about the lower comp expense this quarter, if that were from a reduction in the workforce or lower bonus accruals or some combination of that? And then, if you think there is more capacity for more steps on that front in the back half of the year or even next year? And then maybe on the branch network, what do you guys can do there, if anything to capture some expenses there?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
So let me address the comp number, straight up, it was all driven off of the payroll taxes. Q1 is always for the high quarter for the year and you have to chew up sell security and payroll expenses. So that's the high point. Our payroll should be relatively consistent. So what you saw last quarter should be consistent in Q3 and probably Q4. As far as branch opportunities, we're always open to looking at leases that are coming due and coming available, we rather not take charge, we took one in the beginning of the year that we felt was appropriate. When we looked at some of these opportunities and as they come along closer to their renewal, we evaluate the profitability and we will consider that during the down the road. But clearly, we're not looking to take additional charges for that.
David Rochester -- Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC -- Analyst
Yeah, OK. And then, just one question on the end of the whole deferral process. If you guys have any multi-family or commercial real estate in deferral that come off at the end of that period and they aren't cash flowing and you have to call those TDRs and mark those. I know you guys are really well positioned from an LTV basis, but how do you mark those if there aren't any appropriate real transaction you can use in the market at that point or is there deals going on at much lower prices, because assets are coming out of structures and heading lower bids?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Just to say, we are not marking...
David Rochester -- Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC -- Analyst
It can lower the...
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Dave, we are not marking them down, we are just -- the TDR is a TDR, I mean, obviously, you're correct, there is no cash for the financial wherewithal from the borrower, can't support it, you're going to carry on at the face value.
David Rochester -- Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC -- Analyst
Right.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
And...
David Rochester -- Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC -- Analyst
So is there really no good transactions going on. And I mean, you're obviously using transactions to figure out where you value those assets, is where...
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yes, the appraise -- we'll get updated appraisals you go through that process. Again, I think, I would say, you're more inclined to deal with that on the office and retail side and maybe the mix use. But on the multi-family side, you still have a lot of customers here that are getting flush with cash. So you're correct, it's going -- no one's coming out of this on the scale, it's going to be loans that have to be dealt with after the process goes to the multiple opportunities of giving them some relief. But we don't really know exactly when that will call for us. We feel very strongly that we're going to have very strong statistics to discuss at the end of the year. Bear in mind we're one quarter behind the entire banking space as we felt it prudent to give them six months relief in the epicenter of the pandemic. We were proven right. I can tell you with certainty as we've got into phase 4, businesses are opening right now. And the conversations like I've discussed, we're having is, I don't want to pay, I don't want to accrue this interest, i want to pay you so I don't have an interest accrual. And that's the ongoing conversation. There will be some that who have a difficult time and given the low leverage we deal with, we'll work it out and hopefully, it won't be a material number.
David Rochester -- Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC -- Analyst
Have you guys set up any kind of a reserves for Interest income for some of those loans that are undeferral, where you think they might not be able to come off successfully?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Nothing material.
David Rochester -- Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC -- Analyst
Okay. And then, I guess, just lastly, what are the prospects of actually are being able to extend deferrals again come October for some of those loans that are having trouble still, we've heard from some banks that accounts may not allow that, they might force the TDR classification. But just curious what you guys are doing?
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. Dave, I'd say that there is flexibility. And I'm hoping, we don't have to go there. But if we do have to go there, there is a lots of flexibility or any black swan pandemic events that has to be dealt with, what has significant government support here. So in the event a business is forced the shutdown for extended period of time. I'm assuming there is some flexibility into the CARES Act as they can't reopen, because the government says you can open or they did like not to open. There's is going to be some flexibility. and we do have a lot of large borrowers, have a lot of large buildings that are rent-regulated. We also have large credits and those large credits are somewhat uniquely positioned. But some of the smaller players may have the issue of reopening in the capacity and we may have to deal with that and as that comes to a point where we have to sit down and discuss the next round of the deferral, we'll deal with that. But there is no question that there is flexibility and it's important to note that what we're hearing from the industry that there'll be more flexibility coming. I will tell you that all our people are sitting on a number of panels of potential priority on how to deal with this after six months. I believe by the time six months comes around, you'll probably have more clarity from the industry.
David Rochester -- Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC -- Analyst
Okay. Sounds good. Thanks, guys. I appreciate it.
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
You're welcome.
Operator
We have reached the end of our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn it back over to management for closing remarks.
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Thank you. I want to thank you all for joining us today and hopefully, we provided some insight into what keeps us unique. However, we will be available for those that have additional questions over the course of the day and the period ahead. Thank you all.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 65 minutes
Call participants:
Salvatore DiMartino -- Director of Investor Relations
Joseph R. Ficalora -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Thomas R. Cangemi -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Ebrahim Poonawala -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Mark Fitzgibbon -- Piper Sandler Companies -- Analyst
Steve Moss -- B. Riley FBR, Inc. -- Analyst
Collyn Gilbert -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. -- Analyst
Ken A. Zerbe -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Steven Duong -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Matthew Breese -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
Peter J. Winter -- Wedbush Securities -- Analyst
Christopher Marinac -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
David Rochester -- Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC -- Analyst
