by Glen | May 31, 2019 | General real estate financing information, Housing Price Trends / Information, News, Private Lending, Property Valuation, Real Estate economic trends, Real Estate Trends, Real estate Valuation, Residential hard money
Federal Reserve Chairman Powell recently announced that inflation is transitory. Sound familiar? Janet Yellen, the prior fed chair, used this same term 2017 and 2018. Seems like we are in an extended “transit”. Why? Are we headed for the next...
by Glen | May 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Recently the news has been overwhelming. Originally there was a deal with China then there wasn’t; now China is referring to the trade differences as a trade war. The US markets sold off and then they recovered then sold off again. What is going on? Why are we...
by Glen | May 15, 2019 | Housing Price Trends / Information
Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Cool with the smallest gain since 2012. At the same time mortgage rates have dropped off their highs by 20% to around 4% for a 30-year mortgage. Why are lower mortgage rates not spurring more demand and helping home prices? Why is...
by Glen | May 9, 2019 | Colorado Hard Money, Denver Hard Money, Denver private Lending, Hard Money in the News, Hard Money Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information, In the Press, Underwriting/Valuation
I’ve mentioned many times that house flipping is getting a little “long in the tooth”. This week I was featured in BusinessWeek/Bloomberg on this topic ( great article here is the link in case you missed it). Nationwide flipping has grown exponentially....
by Glen | May 8, 2019 | Housing Price Trends / Information, Uncategorized
The National Association of Realtors came out with their 2019 forecast saying: “the economy is “good.” And noted that we have low unemployment, record high job openings, historically low jobless claims, job additions for eight straight years and wages...