Experience Matters
Working with a private lender who speaks the language of real estate can have a big impact on your project and your business. If you are looking for financing for your latest real estate investment [...]
Where There’s Smoke…
Do your employees deserve extra vacation time for giving up cigarettes? In a lot of ways, quitting smoking is its own reward. But one company has found a surprising new way to incentivize employees to [...]
Marketing to Multiple Generations
Reach various generations—especially millennials—with your message. Mortgage professionals are typically savvy marketing people. They have to be. However, today there is somewhat of a disconnect in the way mortgage services are marketed across multiple generations. [...]
How do Capital Gains Taxes Work for Investment Properties?
When a person buys an investment property, they do that with the goal of making money. But they don't always end up making the money they expected, and part of the reason for that is [...]
Working Together to Shape Leaders
The challenges of defining today’s leaders are influenced by factors well beyond executives' offices filled with an abundance of leather bound books and rich mahogany. In the current trend of agility and collaboration, the next [...]
Civic Financial Services Closes $190M Securitization
Historic bond offering, believed to be the largest in history for private residential lending, provokes shift via transparency into loan performance. Civic Financial Services, LLC (“CIVIC”) announced that it has completed CIVIC 2018-1, a $190 [...]
Nia Patel On HousingWire’s 2018 Rising Stars
PeerStreet, a marketplace for investing in real estate backed loans, is honored to announce that Nia Patel has been named to HousingWire’s 2018 Rising Stars list of young leaders to watch in the housing industry. [...]
Sharestates Surpasses $1B in Loan Originations; Celebrates With $100,000 Giveaway
Sharestates continues their ongoing momentum and disruption in the real estate investment space, offering $100,000 to investors to celebrate their $1 billion milestone Online real estate investment platform, Sharestates, announced they have surpassed $1 Billion [...]
AAPL Member Spotlight | Anthony Geraci, Esq.
From time to time we like to highlight our members and help introduce them to the rest of our member network and followers. This month, we have a member spotlight… with a twist! Anthony Geraci [...]
The 2018 Omnibus Bill
What $1.3 trillion of federal spending can mean for you While the president's budget blueprint from last year proposed dramatic cuts in discretionary spending, the March 2018 omnibus budget signed into law was remarkable both [...]
How Legislation Can Move Fintech Into the Digital Economy
Congress has opportunities to address some of the challenges financial technology firms face in the lending sector. The pace of financial technology innovation in the alternative lending space is nothing short of phenomenal, but it [...]
ATTOM Data Solutions Launches New Online Marketing List Creation Platform
New ‘ATTOM List’ Platform Features Expanded Data Footprint with Data for 155 Million Properties, Industry-Standard Interface; Search Filters Include Property & Owner Location, Occupancy, Equity, Foreclosure Status ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier [...]
PeerStreet Funds $1 Billion in Loans
PeerStreet continues to build momentum seeking disruption of the mortgage industry PeerStreet, an award-winning platform for investing in real estate backed loans announced $1 billion in loans have been funded through its marketplace since launch. [...]
Ignite Funding Surpassed $500M in Trust Deed Investments
Ignite Funding Proves Trust Deed Investments Build Communities and Wealth for Investors with Half a Billion Funded Ignite Funding announced they surpassed half a billion dollars May 18, 2018, in Trust Deed investments on behalf [...]
SGF Contracting Services Inc. Announces New Name
SGF Contracting Services Inc. is now Radius Renovation Group, a name signifying its commitment to providing full circle renovation services to real estate investors SGF Contracting Services Inc., a national provider of rehab and renovation [...]
Toorak Capital Partners Reaches $1 Billion Milestone
Toorak Capital Partners Closes Increased KKR Investment as Company Reaches $1 Billion Milestone Toorak Capital Partners (“Toorak”) announced that KKR has increased its investment in the company to $250 million, after initially committing $75 million [...]
Affinity Worldwide makes equity investment in OwnAmerica
Purchase better connects real estate investors to education, property acquisition services and insurance products Affinity Worldwide has made an equity investment in OwnAmerica. The purchase deepens the partnership between OwnAmerica and two of Affinity Worldwide’s [...]
Bringing Mezzanine Capital to the Fix & Flip Market
Mezzanine capital can help private money lenders win new business. Mezzanine capital, aka “Mezz,” is essentially preferred equity or second mortgage debt that is needed to bridge the gap in the capital stack between first [...]
Alternatives Within the Alternatives
Don’t overlook pursuing lucrative segments with your tax-advantaged retirement dollars. When individual retirement account (IRA) providers talk about how your self-directed IRA can invest in almost any alternative asset, we really mean it. Common strategies [...]
6 Ways to Improve Your Fund
Adopting these approaches will help reduce your liabilities and foster success. Managing a private lending fund is not easy. You need the help of accountants, compliance experts and, of course, reliable salespeople to ensure that [...]
