Despite the pandemic, the U.S. housing market continues to outpace last year’s performances in new home sales, existing home sales, and housing starts. Resilient. It’s the word that keeps coming up in industry conversations with contractors, lenders, and even portfolio managers at Wall Street titans. In the face of an economy-crushing pandemic, the U.S. housing [...]
Many investors are approaching acquisition opportunities with caution, even as they prepare for future buying opportunities that haven’t materialized. Real estate investors took a licking in late March following the coronavirus pandemic and national emergency declarations. “It’s going to be tough the next few months. Investors are scared,” said Chicago-area investor Michael Hallman in a [...]
The industry is focused on strengthening itself rather than rebuilding. On March 19, 2020, California announced the nation’s first statewide shelter-in-place order. Within weeks, 44 more states followed suit. The national economy was effectively shut down. In the private lending industry, where we think of ourselves as insulated from Wall Street’s whims, we were quickly [...]
The U.S. federal $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill included a $349 billion relief for small businesses called the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to support job retention and other specified expenses. The PPP loan is an addition to the existing federal loan programs, including SBA’s traditional 7(a) loan and the Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) [...]
by Ray Sturm and Ryan Craft Uncertainty during personal and economic danger is hard to endure. However, in the weeks and months ahead lenders and investors alike will be forced to make decisions with incomplete information. In times like these, with the ongoing spread of COVID-19 and the incredible speed at which things [...]
How the coronavirus is affecting the private lending sector With the world reacting to the effects of the fast-spreading coronavirus, health officials and economists alike are looking to history to help predict both its advance and its lasting impacts. Nothing recent—like H1N1, SARS, Ebola or the seasonal flu—have proven accurate or particularly helpful models. Instead, scientists and the media are increasingly making comparisons [...]
The housing market holds its own amid economic and political challenges. Trade tensions, lackluster business investment, a volatile equities market and political uncertainty could create economic challenges in the new year; however, the real estate industry—and the lending market that supports it—remain on relatively firm footing. That’s not to say there won’t be challenges in [...]
Legislation aimed at deterring “property speculation and flipping in vulnerable neighborhoods” in New York City begs the question: Just how prevalent and harmful is home flipping in the five boroughs that would be impacted by the policy change? An Auction.com analysis of public record data from ATTOM Data Solutions shows home flipping in the five [...]
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 [...]
Kansas City, Missouri - January 16, 2020 – The American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL) and Wall Street housing research firm, Zelman & Associates, are partnering to launch the private lending industry’s first and only benchmark data survey. The quarterly survey – which opens for responses in April – will gather key data on [...]
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