Lender emerges with break-even scenario at best. The information contained in this case study analyzes several aspects of a residential foreclosure. All confidential borrower information has been redacted from the case study to protect the borrower’s privacy. The borrower purchased the subject property from a private seller for $260,000. The borrower planned to spend $40,000 [...]
How easily can you reposition your business model to weather the bad times? Unprecedented. Pivot. Peloton. Puppies. Quarantine. Zoom. These are just some of the words that have come to embody our current environment. How did we get here? In January 2020, the private lending space and the economy were humming along. At my company, [...]
Sure, interest rates are low, but there are still troubling economic indicators you should be paying attention to. We all saw the housing market pick up strength this year, thanks to lower interest rates. Most prognosticators believe housing will maintain its strength through the winter and well into 2020. Mortgage rates are lower than last [...]
The GND can create opportunities for private lenders to make money while playing a role in rebuilding and renewing the country’s vital infrastructure. Suspend disbelief for a moment and imagine the Green New Deal (GND) somehow has passed into law, despite the fractured government in Washington. What would it mean for private lenders? It all [...]
Working with community banks may help you grow deal flow and returns. Since the banking crisis of 2007, the landscape for traditional lenders has changed dramatically. The most obvious, and ironic, change is that big banks have become much bigger. For example, JPMorgan Chase, with $2.7 trillion assets under management, is so huge that if [...]
How the postwar generation will shake up the housing market. Due to their sheer numbers, the baby boomer generation has had an outsized impact on society. They have been driving cultural change and economic expansion since the 1970s. Lately, they’ve been influencing society in a new way—by holding on to their homes longer than expected. [...]
Will America’s real estate market be affected? Over the past several years, Chinese investors were quite active in the U.S. real estate market. Both the commercial and the residential sectors benefited from the healthy appetite of Chinese institutional and individual investors. Early last year, however, the bloom began to come off that rose. Much of [...]
4 ways to counter hard money’s sometimes disreputable image. “Hard money” lending got its name back during the Great Depression after a large swath of the banking industry failed across the country. When property owners became desperate for cash, private individuals started lending money against real estate for interest rates that were higher than what [...]
Do these four things each month to track and reduce risk For many non-bank lenders, risk management is an activity they do before they get to the closing table. Lenders regularly evaluate the loan to value (LTV) ratio of the project when determining the creditworthiness of the buyer. The expectation is that if the borrower [...]
What does that mean for lenders? As this long summer stretch ends, you can bet investors will be pouring over their portfolios. Just a year ago many bearish prognosticators thought the Dow certainly could not sustain its momentum through the first half of 2018, only to be proven wrong. As of this writing, the Dow [...]
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