Housing Bill Targets Corporate Home Buying
Th U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved S.2651, the 21st Century Road to Housing Act on March 12, closely mirroring a version the House previously passed. Although reconciliation is still required, the legislation has broad bipartisan support. [...]
Tightening Yields Demand a New Callsheet
ATTOM’s latest annual “Single-Family Rental Market” report, released in March 2026, confirmed what many private lenders and investors have been seeing for several quarters: Rental yields are tightening across much of the country, even as [...]
Your Association at Work
AAPL has never been busier, and neither have the people helping move it forward. What a lean internal team of three once handled has expanded into a seven-person operation fully embedded across programming, partnerships, member [...]
Member Spotlight | RAM Financial Group
Our September Member Spotlight shines on RAM Financial Group! What should we know about RAM Financial Group? RAM Financial Group is a well-established property tax lender in the state of Texas. After a couple decades [...]
Project as Company Surpasses $1 Billion in Loans Under Management
Jersey City, N.J. – August 25th, 2026 – Asset Based Lending (ABL), a national private lender and a driving force behind the next generation of real estate investment, today announced it has funded its 10,000th [...]
Velocity to Acquire Toorak’s Operating Platform, Manage $3 Billion Portfolio
Westlake Village, CA – August 27, 2026 – Velocity Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VEL) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the operating platform of longtime AAPL member Toorak Capital LLC, a business-purpose lending and asset [...]
Raising Capital the Right Way Starts With the Right Structure
Raising capital is one of the most difficult aspects of building a successful private lending business. The capital-raising framework you choose early on will shape nearly every strategic decision that follows. Key considerations include fund [...]
Growing Fraud Problem Demands Industry Leadership
Fraud is not new to private lending, but the speed and sophistication we are seeing today represent a concerning shift. What once appeared as isolated attempts to exploit documentation gaps has evolved into coordinated, technology- [...]
Join Us as a Sponsor for A Night of Impact
Success creates opportunities. Significance creates impact. On September 17, 2026, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM, Impact Others will bring together an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs, business owners, investors, executives, and community leaders at The [...]
Private Lender Exchange: Institutional RE Purchases
Jesse Goldberg, Parkplace Finance, and John V. Santilli, Unitas Funding What are the effects on homeowners and smaller investors? Few topics in residential real estate generate as much emotional and financial disagreement as the role [...]
Are Short-Term Rentals Scalable?
Discover where short-term rental valuations go off track and how to keep appraisals aligned with underwriting reality. Short-term rentals (STRs) are a small slice of the U.S. housing market, but they have been growing steadily [...]
Lend Where Value Wins
In a high-rate, high-payment environment, the projects and lenders who succeed are precisely aligned with local buyer demand. The housing market during the past two years has been reshaped less by dramatic price swings than [...]
Member Spotlight | Zack Farris
Our August Member Spotlight shines on Zack Farris, Founder & CEO at LendlyX! How long have you and/or your company been an AAPL member? I just joined What benefit are you most looking forward to [...]
Right Turn Funds a Compounding Deal
A spontaneous meeting turned a warm introduction into a funded construction loan and a new stream of referrals. A year ago, you’d have found me in Los Angeles doing the work that never shows up [...]
Shield Your Portfolio Against Bad Valuations
In a fast-moving lending environment, rigorous appraisal vetting is one of the strongest protections against fraud and loss. Valuations are all about managing risk and protecting portfolio integrity. In other words, every loan decision depends [...]
Network … in Your Sweatpants
The lender who shows up consistently online is the one brokers and borrowers call first, especially in those late-night decision moments. It’s 11:47 p.m. on a Tuesday. Your kid’s asleep. You’re doom-scrolling LinkedIn. And a [...]
Operational Maturity Is the Engine of Stock Value
Businesses create real enterprise value when they replace heroics with systems. Stock value—value that attracts capital and commands a premium—increases as you progress along an operational maturity spectrum. The concept of operational maturity is not [...]
From Loan Tracking Spreadsheets to Infrastructure Strategy
A data warehouse doesn’t create more reports; it gives private lenders the foundation to scale, measure performance, and spot risk early. You already have the data. The information for every loan you’ve originated, every draw [...]
When Seeing Is No Longer Believing
As AI-driven image manipulation accelerates, private lenders must rethink how they authenticate visual proof of progress. The private lending industry has a long history of balancing opportunity with operational risk. During the past decade, underwriting [...]
Demolished, Delayed, and Defaulted
A routine rehab project involving two properties turned into a prolonged legal and operational battle that tested every layer of lender oversight. As if private lending didn’t already come with enough challenges—defaults, unresponsive borrowers, and [...]
