Pre-tax income was $18.3 million and adjustedpre-tax income was $20.5 million. Provision for income tax was $3.9 million, for an effective tax rate of 21.1%, compared to a provision of $7.8 million, or 22.2%, in the prior year.
Net income attributable tonon-controlling interest was $4.0 million during the second quarter, as compared to $4.8 million in the prior year.
Financial Services
The Company announced the formation of ClosingMark Financial Group, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary under which the Company intends to operate a full suite of financial services offerings, including title agency, settlement and mortgage services, for the Company’s homebuyers and other retail customers. ClosingMark has recently commenced its title agency services in the Central Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada markets, and expects to expand its title and settlement services operations into virtually all of the Company’s homebuilding markets over the course of the next two quarters.
In April 2019, we closed on the acquisition of a mortgage platform, South Pacific Financial Corporation (“SPFC”), which has been rebranded as ClosingMark Home Loans. We anticipate integrating our existing mortgage joint venture operations and loan pipeline into this platform under the ClosingMark brand during the third quarter.
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, the Company is reporting a separate financial services segment, to report the operations, assets, and liabilities of the services mentioned above on wholly-owned mortgage operations of ClosingMark Home Loans, our title agency business, as well as our unconsolidated mortgage joint ventures.
During the quarter, our unconsolidated mortgage joint ventures recorded income of $1.4 million, our wholly-owned financial services recorded a loss of $1.2 million, and we incurred transaction expenses related to the acquisition of SPFC of approximately $990,000.