A modest sentiment lift among distressed buyers at year-end suggests movement in the housing market in early 2026. Thee sentiment and bidding behavior of local community developers buying distressed properties at auction increased slightly in late 2025 as available inventory picked up and pricing drifted lower, indicating a possible rebound in the retail housing market [...]
Authors Michael Fogliano and Sean Morgan Unrecorded loans, rapid flips, and inflated appraisals left clues to one of the largest incidents to hit our industry to date. In July 2025, Fannie Mae issued an alert about a growing pattern of fraudulent activity involving two-to four-unit investment properties concentrated in New Jersey and surrounding mid-Atlantic and [...]
Lightning Docs is a fully automated, cloud-based loan document solution developed by Fortra Law. In addition to providing automated loan documents for private lenders, Lightning Docs serves as a source of aggregated data to add clarity to the private lending industry. So far this year, more than 34,000 loans have run through the platform, including [...]
Irvine, Calif. — Jan. 29, 2026 — Auction.com, the nation’s leading distressed real estate marketplace, today released its Q4 2025 Auction Market Dispatch, which shows that foreclosure auction volume in the fourth quarter of 2025 increased 48 percent from a year ago to the highest level since Q2 2020 — although still 39 percent below [...]
Inventory, pending ratios, and price cuts reveal a market recalibrating fast—and creating new investor openings. The housing market downshifted decisively in 2025 as stubbornly high mortgage rates, tariff uncertainty, and a more laissez faire housing policy from Washington became part of the market milieu. This downshift manifested in more inventory for sale and slowing demand, [...]
Origination numbers are up even as loan amounts level off. Following a rate cut in December 2024, the Federal Reserve has maintained the same federal funds target rate for the first four consecutive FOMC meetings in 2025. They remained cautious due to inflation concerns and economic uncertainties. Volume and Growth Changes First-quarter 2025 saw a [...]
Underwriting corrections and stronger sponsor quality have fueled a sharp rebound in multifamily residential transition loans while other segments remain volatile. By Sam Kaddah, Liquid Logics, and Aleksandra Simanovsky, Adige Advisory In the historically opaque and fragmented world of residential transition loans (RTLs), standardized performance data has been difficult to come by. But thanks to [...]
Scrutinize the market’s big themes and dependencies to develop your game plan for the second half of 2025. So much can be said about the investment world and capital market volatility during the last 24 months. As we move further into 2025, some harsh realities about the investment world and capital market volatility are becoming [...]
Rising delinquencies, stricter lending conditions, and declining property valuations are reshaping the commercial real estate landscape. The commercial real estate (CRE) lending market, including both traditional and private lending sectors, is facing significant challenges in 2025. Delinquency rates have surged, rising from 0.77% to 1.18% year over year, marking a 53% increase. This translates into an [...]
The nation’s top ten private lenders originated nearly a quarter of all residential volume, even as the number of lenders grew 15 percent. Michael Fogliano and Sean Morgan, Forecasa Several key trends shaped the 2024 private lending market. Among these were shifts in origination volume, loan sizes, geographic distribution, lender competition, and product mix. This [...]
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