The private money lenders at We Lend are motivated by helping their clients achieve wealth. Summer 1996. Ruben Izgelov has just spent several hours hawking flyers to pedestrians hustling along busy Queens Boulevard in New York, hoping to persuade them to patronize area pizzerias and sushi restaurants. It was the young immigrant from Turkmenistan’s first [...]
Ensures continued client service of an ever-expanding practice. Pleasant Hill, California, January 4, 2023— Spiegel Accountancy Corp. announced today that the firm promoted Audit Director, Kadidia Traore, to Principal effective January 1, 2023. Traore joined Spiegel’s audit management team in 2016, and specializes in working with mortgage bankers, private equity lenders, and employee benefit plans. [...]
Our January Member Spotlight shines on Eli Novey, Chief Financial Officer at Toorak Capital Partners. With over 20 years of experience, he is the go-to guy for anything finance, treasury and accounting related for Toorak Capital Partners. Even though he is a successful buttoned up businessman, he is also "Dad" to his three young children [...]
Our December Member Spotlight shines on Bryan Joyce, Vice President of Commercial Lending with EMCAP Lending. When Bryan isn't running the day-to-day operations at EMCAP Lending or overseeing a private real estate loan portfolio, you'll find him with his 16-year old twins. Whenever he has free time, he's watching his children play high school and [...]
Gender identity discrimination, fee transparency, and prompt communications were topics for recent discussion and change. Private lenders’ unique position within the larger finance industry has allowed for greater nimbleness, flexibility, and a crucial level of self-agency in operations and strategy. To maintain that advantageous—but not assured—differentiation among borrowers, investors, and industry partners, private lenders must [...]
Our November Member Spotlight shines on Ketan Parekh, managing director with Toorak Capital Partners. With over 25 years in the business, Parekh is not just a successful businessman, he is a family guy. In his free time, he enjoys spending as much time with his family as possible as well as catching the latest movie. [...]
Easy Street Capital, a hard money lender based out of Austin, TX, has surpassed $1 billion in 2022 year-to-date bridge loan originations. Despite recent market changes, Easy Street has consistently grown at a rapid pace boosted by innovative product offerings and an unmatched commitment to meeting the needs of real estate investors. EasyFix, Easy Street’s fix-and-flip bridge [...]
Borrower rehabs a single-family home in Miami, Florida, in a neighborhood dedicated to maintaining affordable housing. As climate change and rising ocean levels affect the more flood-prone areas of Miami, higher-elevation neighborhoods like Liberty City have become more attractive to investors. In response, the Liberty City Trust was established to maintain affordable housing in the [...]
South Windsor, CT, August 16, 2022 – RCN Capital, the leading nationwide private lender for real estate investors, has been named on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America, ranking No. 2083. RCN Capital also ranked No. 119 on the Inc. 5000 Regionals Northeast list earlier [...]
LONG BEACH, Calif., August 2, 2022 - Applied Business Software Inc., (“ABS”), the leader in loan servicing and origination software in private lending, announced today closing of Q2 with a threefold sales growth in their Adjustable-Rate Mortgages (“ARM”) software. Despite fears of an economic slowdown and a high CPI inflation, Applied Business Software Inc., reported a [...]
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