Jeff Levin

Pivoting in the Private Lending Space During a Global Pandemic

By |2021-03-01T22:50:48-06:00March 1st, 2021|Featured, Strategy|0 Comments

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, [...]

By |2021-03-01T22:50:48-06:00March 1st, 2021|Featured, Strategy|0 Comments

4 Ways a Green New Deal Could Present Opportunity for Private Lenders

By |2019-10-24T15:28:55-05:00October 24th, 2019|Advocacy|0 Comments

The GND can create opportunities for private lenders to make money while playing a role in rebuilding  and renewing the country’s vital infrastructure. Suspend disbelief for a moment and imagine the Green New Deal (GND) somehow has passed into law, despite the fractured government in Washington. What would it mean for private lenders? It all [...]

By |2019-10-24T15:28:55-05:00October 24th, 2019|Advocacy|0 Comments

4 Good Reasons to Get to Know Community Banks

By |2019-07-31T17:38:47-05:00July 31st, 2019|Strategy|0 Comments

Working with community banks may help you grow deal flow and returns. Since the banking crisis of 2007, the landscape for traditional lenders has changed dramatically. The most obvious, and ironic, change is that big banks have become much bigger. For example, JPMorgan Chase, with $2.7 trillion assets under management, is so huge that if [...]

By |2019-07-31T17:38:47-05:00July 31st, 2019|Strategy|0 Comments

China’s Investment Slowdown

By |2019-04-15T17:33:05-05:00April 15th, 2019|Strategy|0 Comments

Will America’s real estate market be affected? Over the past several years, Chinese investors were quite active in the U.S. real estate market. Both the commercial and the residential sectors benefited from the healthy appetite of Chinese institutional and individual investors. Early last year, however, the bloom began to come off that rose. Much of [...]

By |2019-04-15T17:33:05-05:00April 15th, 2019|Strategy|0 Comments

Your Monthly Checklist for Reducing Credit Risk

By |2018-12-12T17:22:54-06:00December 12th, 2018|Strategy|0 Comments

Do these four things each month to track and reduce risk For many non-bank lenders, risk management is an activity they do before they get to the closing table. Lenders regularly evaluate the loan to value (LTV) ratio of the project when determining the creditworthiness of the buyer. The expectation is that if the borrower [...]

By |2018-12-12T17:22:54-06:00December 12th, 2018|Strategy|0 Comments

AAPL Member Spotlight | Jeff Levin

By |2018-10-05T22:01:06-05:00October 5th, 2018|Member Spotlight|0 Comments

Jeff Levin, founder and president of Specialty Lending Group, has been an AAPL member for nine years. He’s not only an active member who lives each day to its fullest; he is a recognized authority, lecturer and panelist. He is a member of AAPL’s Education Advisory Committee, regular contributor to Private Lender magazine and has [...]

By |2018-10-05T22:01:06-05:00October 5th, 2018|Member Spotlight|0 Comments

5 Indicators the Bull Market May End This Year

By |2018-09-26T02:19:46-05:00September 26th, 2018|Market Trends|0 Comments

What does that mean for lenders? As this long summer stretch ends, you can bet investors will be pouring over their portfolios. Just a year ago many bearish prognosticators thought the Dow certainly could not sustain its momentum through the first half of 2018, only to be proven wrong. As of this writing, the Dow [...]

By |2018-09-26T02:19:46-05:00September 26th, 2018|Market Trends|0 Comments

Accepting Paypal, Venmo or Zelle

By |2018-08-07T02:37:26-05:00July 26th, 2018|Servicing|0 Comments

Opportunity or Minefield for Lenders? Borrowers, especially millennials, love peer-to-peer payment apps. Apps such as PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, amongst others, eliminate the hassle of writing checks. With the proliferation of their use, private and institutional lenders are wondering if they should indulge their borrowers and start accepting payments from these apps? The short answer is [...]

By |2018-08-07T02:37:26-05:00July 26th, 2018|Servicing|0 Comments

Fair Housing and Fair Lending Protections in 2018

By |2021-08-20T19:27:28-05:00April 11th, 2018|Advocacy, Discrimination, Ethics, Legal|0 Comments

The Quiet Battle over Obama-Era Regulations If you think you missed some knock down, drag out battle over the nation’s Fair Housing and Fair Lending protections over the last year, you would be wrong. There certainly has been some knocking down of regulations since last summer, but, in contrast to the splashy headlines around the [...]

By |2021-08-20T19:27:28-05:00April 11th, 2018|Advocacy, Discrimination, Ethics, Legal|0 Comments

Understanding the New Tax Laws

By |2018-08-07T02:38:14-05:00January 31st, 2018|Advocacy|0 Comments

How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act impact private lending and construction. President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) on Dec. 22, 2017, ushering in major changes to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, effective Jan. 1, 2018.These changes should have a significant positive impact on the private lending and [...]

By |2018-08-07T02:38:14-05:00January 31st, 2018|Advocacy|0 Comments

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