Qualitative criteria can provide borrower insights that quantitative data often don’t capture. Small private lenders tend to have a different business model and deal flow than their larger counterparts. For example, smaller lenders tend to focus on a few geographical areas and know their markets well. Smaller lenders also develop deeper connections in the markets [...]
Today’s private lender sales teams lack experience in true credit risk analysis, making pre-qualifying harder in a market that is producing tougher deals with less experienced sponsors. Here’s how to fix it. It’s 2023. You may be sitting at your desk wondering, “How has everything changed so much?” Where are the days of our originator’s [...]
Environmental contaminants can significantly decrease a property’s value and open both borrowers and lenders to liability. Here’s how to screen, evaluate, and mitigate impacts. Environmental due diligence is the process of evaluating and identifying environmental risk associated with real estate collateral. Lenders require it to be performed for a variety of reasons, including the impact [...]
Co-lenders can avoid wasting time and money by discussing these six areas with their co-lenders and their counsel. When a loan will be made by more than one lender, an additional level of analysis is necessary. Multi-lender deals have more than just financial considerations. You must consider allocation of amounts to fund, securities compliance, and [...]
The bottom line is all lenders—conventional and private—must decide the boundaries they are willing to work within. Everyone has heard stories about a loan that went bad at the final hour. A familiar one centers on the buyer getting excited about a new home and going out and financing expensive new furniture, killing their debt-to-income [...]
A gap in the market gives online lenders an opportunity if they define their position in the larger market. It is becoming increasingly apparent that there is a sizable shift occurring within the online real estate lending world. Original models are not working, and the lines differentiating online and non-online lenders are further blurring. Recent [...]
As someone whose roots are firmly planted in the world of private lending, you may be ready to tackle the real estate market, even if you may not know it! The principles of asset management (and the income potential) can be very similar when comparing private lending and real estate. For example, both investment strategies [...]
When a borrower’s renovation project and loan payments stall, the knee-jerk reaction of many private lenders is to initiate foreclosure. That’s a lengthy and expensive process in most jurisdictions that ends when the lender takes back the property. Active Forbearance offers an alternative route that can get a borrower’s renovation project back on track, get [...]
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