by Glen | Jun 24, 2020 | interest rates, Private Lending, Real Estate economic trends, real estate investing, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation, Underwriting/Valuation
The stock market has been pricing in a fast and rapid V-shaped recovery, yet 106 million people and various businesses like United Airlines are painting a radically different picture. As Alan Greenspan, the former fed chief, famously said: markets can exhibit...
by Glen | Jun 16, 2020 | Colorado Hard Money, Real Estate economic trends, real estate investing, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation, Realtor, Residential hard money, residential lending valuation, Underwriting/Valuation
We are still funding in cash. Before the Pandemic, the United States economy was on track with the longest running bull market, record low inflation wages increasing, record low unemployment, and historically low mortgage rates. Even with all this good news, there...
by Glen | Jun 3, 2020 | Real Estate economic trends, real estate investing, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation, Realtor, Residential hard money
NY city is changing the real estate game implementing a ban on the NYC rental broker fee and making a host of other changes. At the same time New York leads all U.S. metro areas as the largest net loser with 277 people moving every day. What are the new laws? How...
by Glen | Apr 23, 2020 | commercial private lending, Coronavirus 2020 real estate impact, Hard Money Commercial Lending, Real Estate economic trends, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation
I always love spring in the Rocky Mountains, to see the pull of the seasons with snow and flowers starting to bloom. Eventually spring always wins 🙂 If you read the news, it sounds like the world is crumbling with 22 million jobs lost and a predicted 30% GDP...
by Glen | Mar 31, 2020 | Coronavirus 2020 real estate impact, General real estate financing information, hard money, Real Estate economic trends, real estate investing, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation, Uncategorized
Like many of you I had a “rocky” ride in the last real estate recession and successfully learned many “million-dollar” lessons that were very painful. One of the key takeaways from the last recession is that risks lurk in plain sight. Hindsight 20-20 it was...
by Glen | Mar 14, 2020 | commercial hard money, Commercial Lending in the news, Commercial Lending valuation, Coronavirus 2020 real estate impact, General real estate financing information, Housing Price Trends / Information, Real Estate economic trends, real estate investing, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation, residential lending valuation, Underwriting/Valuation
With the labor market looking up, we decided to “hire” a new employee, Luna. She will be working out of our Colorado office and focusing on property inspections (and anything that has to do with snow). Please welcome her to the team 🙂 The Labor...