by Glen | May 9, 2019 | Colorado Hard Money, Denver Hard Money, Denver private Lending, Hard Money in the News, Hard Money Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information, In the Press, Underwriting/Valuation
I’ve mentioned many times that house flipping is getting a little “long in the tooth”. This week I was featured in BusinessWeek/Bloomberg on this topic ( great article here is the link in case you missed it). Nationwide flipping has grown exponentially....
by Glen | May 8, 2019 | Housing Price Trends / Information, Uncategorized
The National Association of Realtors came out with their 2019 forecast saying: “the economy is “good.” And noted that we have low unemployment, record high job openings, historically low jobless claims, job additions for eight straight years and wages...
by Glen | May 2, 2019 | General real estate financing information, Hard Money Commercial Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation
GDP numbers came in great far exceeding expectations at 3.2%. President Trump tweets “we knocked it out of the park”. At the same time inflation remains low/nonexistent which has enabled mortgage rates to fall over 1%. Even with all this good news, home sales...
by Glen | Apr 25, 2019 | commercial hard money, Commercial Lending valuation, hard money, Hard Money Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information, Real Estate economic trends
We are well into 2019 and recession risks seems to have faded into the rear view mirror. Is this a facade? Are we out of the woods yet? What changed? The biggest wildcard going into 2019 was the pace and number of increases from the federal reserve. What has...
by Glen | Apr 18, 2019 | General real estate financing information, Hard Money Commercial Lending, Hard Money Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information
Recently zestimates have been on an upward trajectory, far outpacing typical gains in the market (the graph above shows a 50% increase in two years). Why is the zestimate suddenly increasing? Why is it increasing so rapidly? Is the zestimate really the market value? ...
