by Glen | Jul 30, 2019 | General real estate financing information, hard money, Hard Money Commercial Lending
Fitch Ratings, one of the big three rating services (the other two are Moody’s and Standard and Poors) announced big changes to their pricing models that rates mortgage securities. What is changing? Why is this change so impactful? Why will commercial and...
by Glen | Jul 24, 2019 | Hard Money Lending, Private Lending, Real Estate Trends, Realtor
It was only a matter of time before the largest seller of almost anything entered the real estate market. Amazon announced it’s new program, Turnkey. This program partners with Realogy (owner of Sothebys, Coldwell Banker, etc..) to funnel potential buyers to...
by Glen | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
I wanted to wish each of you a Happy 4th of July. I know the picture above is not what you would expect from a 4th of July e-mail. It is a picture of my windshield after a chance encounter. I’ve known many of you as a friend, client, or peer for the past 20 years. ...
by Glen | May 8, 2019 | Housing Price Trends / Information, Uncategorized
The National Association of Realtors came out with their 2019 forecast saying: “the economy is “good.” And noted that we have low unemployment, record high job openings, historically low jobless claims, job additions for eight straight years and wages...
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...
