by Glen | Jul 5, 2019 | General real estate financing information, Hard Money Commercial Lending
If you have closed any real estate loan since 2003, you have over a 25% chance you were impacted. First American, the second largest title insurance company in the United States handling over 26% of all closings, announced a data breach that exceeds anything we have...
by Glen | Jun 4, 2019 | Atlanta Hard Money, Atlanta Private Lending, Colorado Hard Money, Commercial Lending valuation, Denver Hard Money, Denver private Lending, General real estate financing information, Hard Money Commercial Lending, Hard Money Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information
We keep hearing that the spring real estate season is just around the corner, yet the April housing numbers came out showing a 4.4% decline from 2018 and continuing a downward trend of declining sales for the 14th straight month. What is driving this trend? What are...
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 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? ...
by Glen | Jan 20, 2019 | Commercial Lending in the news, Hard Money Commercial Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information, News, private lender, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation, Residential hard money, residential lending valuation, Small Balance Commercial Lending, Underwriting/Valuation
Although it is impossible to predict the future unless you were a star in the movie back to the future , history does provide a good indicator of what might happen. With all the recession talk recently it is important to relate the current economic environment back...
by Glen | Jan 11, 2019 | Colorado Hard Money, hard money, Hard Money Commercial Lending, Hard Money Lending, Private Lending, Small Balance Commercial Lending
Banks told the Fed that they would tighten lending standards if short-term rates rise above their long-term counterparts, the central bank said in results of an October survey of senior loan officers. Asked how an inversion of the yield curve would impact lending...
