Real Estate Loans Cause 70% Drop in Riverview Bank Earnings
From the Columbian:
Vancouver-based Riverview Bancorp Inc. on Tuesday reported a 72 percent drop in its first-quarter net income because of expected losses from unpaid loans.In the three months ending June 30, the share of non-performing assets, or unpaid loans, on Riverview’s books grew more than tenfold from a year earlier, to $23.6 million, or 2.67 percent of the bank’s total assets, the company reported.Executives set aside $2.75 million to cover loans they don’t expect will be repaid. The move reduced net income for the quarter to $793,000. In the same three months in 2007, the bank reported net income of $2.8 million, and set aside $50,000 for loan losses.Recent loan losses can be traced to 20 loans to 16 borrowers, the bank said. Those loans were for land acquisition and development, construction, commercial projects and real estate, with 15 loans funding projects in Oregon and Washington and one fora project […]
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