by Glen | Apr 11, 2019 | Housing Price Trends / Information, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation
Credit scores have been skyrocketing recently. Is this a good thing? Have 15 million consumer’s credit habits changed drastically in the last 10 years? What are the risks from “grade inflation” of credit scores? Why are scores rising so rapidly? How does this...
by Glen | Apr 4, 2019 | credit scoring, General real estate financing information, Housing Price Trends / Information
Last week, I woke up, checked my phone only to see it blowing up with alerts. I was getting alerts about random charges that were not mine from my credit card. Not the best way to wake up, but not surprising since it has been about 6 months since the largest hack in...
by Glen | Mar 29, 2019 | Hard Money in the News, Housing Price Trends / Information, Property Valuation, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation, residential lending valuation
The Federal housing administration over the last several years has been quietly easing the lending standards to increase home ownership. Montgomery, the director of the FHA, did an abrupt change this month tightening standards “to maintain a better balance of...
by Glen | Mar 22, 2019 | Commercial Lending valuation, private lender, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation
The Yield curve inverted for the first time since 2007! What does this mean and why is this so important for real estate? Can the animals predict our next “storm”? Should we all be listening to our “primal” instincts a bit more? We probably should. I was doing a...
by Glen | Mar 13, 2019 | Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation
No, I’m not talking about democrats vs. republicans. I am talking about the actual color blue! Regardless of your political affiliations, I would recommend you only invest in areas on the map that are blue. The Brookings institute developed a map ranking the...
