Popular (BPOP) Announces Sale of Manufactured Housing Loan Portfolio to 21st Mortgage Corp.

September 18, 2008 6:01 PM EDT

Popular, Inc. (Nasdaq: BPOP) announced the sale of manufactured housing loan assets of its U.S. mortgage subsidiary Popular Financial Holdings, or PFH, to 21st Mortgage Corp. and Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. This transaction will provide approximately $194 million in cash and further reduce its assets at its PFH subsidiary, in conjunction with previously announced asset sales. Popular expects to report a pre-tax loss of approximately $70 million in connection with the sale announced today.

Popular, Inc. is a full service financial services provider based in Puerto Rico with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America.
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