by Glen | Jan 19, 2021 | Commercial Lending valuation, commercial property trends, Denver Hard Money, General real estate financing information, hard money, Housing Price Trends / Information, interest rates
Denmark, the country with the longest history of negative central bank rates is offering homeowners 20-year loans at a fixed interest rate of zero. This is very similar to the zero percent financing on cars in the US except you are buying a house. What does this...
by Glen | Jan 6, 2021 | Atlanta Hard Money, Atlanta Private Lending, Atlanta real estate trends, Georgia hard money, interest rates, Property Valuation, Real Estate economic trends, real estate investing, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation
Happy new year to everyone. It is crazy that we are still talking about the election … it seems like it is never ending. Fortunately the Georgia senate runoffs were the last of this cycle. As Georgia flipped Democratic, treasury rates jumped to their highest since...
by Glen | Dec 22, 2020 | interest rates, Property Valuation, Real Estate economic trends, real estate investing, Real Estate Trends, Residential hard money
What a year 2020 has been! The pandemic struck, unemployment has hit records, there was a nice rebound in the summer, and recently a downward trend due to the spike in Coronavirus cases. What does 2021 hold for the economy, interest rates, and residential and...
by Glen | Dec 11, 2020 | interest rates, real estate investing, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation
Mortgage rates just blew through another record with the 30-year fixed rate dropping to 2.75%. If you have been watching the mortgage market, your head is likely spinning. How can mortgage rates go this low? Where do we go from here? How will the next president...
by Glen | Dec 2, 2020 | Colorado Hard Money, commercial property trends, Housing Price Trends / Information, interest rates, Property Valuation
President-elect Joe Biden nominated former Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, the prior head of the Federal Reserve, to become the next Treasury secretary. The “market” loved the pick, should you? What does a Yellen pick for treasury mean for interest rates? ...
by Glen | Nov 9, 2020 | Housing Price Trends / Information, interest rates, Real Estate economic trends, real estate investing, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation
Pfizer announced that their Covid vaccine in trials was 90% effective at preventing infection. The stock market took off and traders began reshuffling their pandemic bets with Zoom down 20% and Disney, hotels, and cruise operators up substantially. Will there be a...