by Glen | May 31, 2019 | General real estate financing information, Housing Price Trends / Information, News, Private Lending, Property Valuation, Real Estate economic trends, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation, Residential hard money
Federal Reserve Chairman Powell recently announced that inflation is transitory. Sound familiar? Janet Yellen, the prior fed chair, used this same term 2017 and 2018. Seems like we are in an extended “transit”. Why? Are we headed for the next...
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 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 | 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...
