The private lending industry of today can trace its near-exponential growth over the past decade back to government regulation. Regulation of parallel industries, that is. Strictures that have reined in traditional institutional lending practices have largely benefited private lenders, spurring borrowers to come knocking at the door. Private lenders have, for the most part, operated [...]
How easily can you reposition your business model to weather the bad times? Unprecedented. Pivot. Peloton. Puppies. Quarantine. Zoom. These are just some of the words that have come to embody our current environment. How did we get here? In January 2020, the private lending space and the economy were humming along. At my company, [...]
Today, as Wall Street is looking for measured risk and maximum yield, private money for business-purpose residential loans is reemerging as an ideal market for their investments. COVID delivered a major blow to the private lending space for a brief period. However, it is unlikely to have any significant, permanent impact on the market. In [...]
Is it an art form or a science? The definition of appraisal—"an opinion of value”—appears straightforward and simple. In fact, the appraisal is likely the most misunderstood aspect of a typical real estate transaction. When it goes well, the appraisal is an afterthought. When it does not go well, it has the potential to delay [...]
Renovate-and-resell profits have soared during the pandemic, but does that make it a good time to flip? When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March, Chicago-based investor Michael Hallman scrambled to mitigate any home flipping losses that might result from the shock to the economy and housing market. “I’ve got about 10 properties right now [...]
It’s 9 p.m.—do you know where your capital is? The novel coronavirus has had some very bad effects on the non-bank lending business. Never before has the lender food chain become so apparent. It’s become obvious who has their own capital and who’s scrambling to find it as the coronavirus economic crisis has continued to [...]
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 [...]
Be aware of the modifications and their implications. The federal coronavirus stimulus bill—the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—provided two rounds of funds totaling $660 billion for small businesses. The relief was designed to support job retention and other specified expenses. The PPP program was an addition to existing federal loan programs, including SBA’s traditional 7(a) loan [...]
What did we learn about working and managing remotely during COVID-19? There’s always been something of a butts-in-seats workplace mentality in the private lending industry. And it makes sense. When you are dealing with sensitive client information, it can be hard to ensure security and know where everything stands operationally if your employees aren’t physically [...]
As many brands have learned recently, marketing and crisis communications are not the same. Do you know the difference? If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else about marketing, it is that planning campaigns and budgeting media for an entire year is old-school strategy that should find its final resting place between printed phone books and [...]
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