by Glen | Feb 6, 2017 | Commercial Lending valuation, Denver Hard Money, Housing Price Trends / Information
Last week I wrote about the large increase in flips in Atlanta. I was surprised that Atlanta was above its pre-recession peak. This got me thinking about Denver. In the Denver news today, it was reported that foreclosures recently increased for the first...
by Glen | Jan 26, 2017 | Atlanta Hard Money, Denver Hard Money, Housing Price Trends / Information, Uncategorized
There was an article in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution this morning highlighting Atlanta as the number 8 metro market for flipping. Why should you care? Do you remember 2008 and how badly it ended for markets like Atlanta. I did an analysis of the raw...
by Glen | Jan 16, 2017 | Commercial Lending valuation, Hard Money Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information
A recent Trulia analysis of U.S. listings shows that 3.9 percent of homes that moved from for-sale to pending moved back to for-sale again, nearly double the rate in 2015. What is the number one reason sales typically fall out? Financing is the number one...
by Glen | Jan 3, 2017 | Commercial Lending valuation, Hard Money Commercial Lending, Hard Money Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information
2017 promises to be an interesting year for real estate investors. Will the bulls continue to run rampant driving up prices or are the bears going to finally come out to play? Although real estate is market specific (for example Detroit vs. Denver) there are...
by Glen | Dec 14, 2016 | Hard Money Commercial Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information, Real Estate Trends
The fed raised rates today? Is this the real news? As many have noticed, rates have taken off over the last 30 days driving up mortgage rates substantially. What is really driving the rapid movement and what will happen in 2017. There is one wild card that could...
by Glen | Nov 18, 2016 | Commercial Lending in the news, Commercial Lending valuation, Hard Money Commercial Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information, Uncategorized
What does great clips have to do with real estate? I went to get a haircut at great clips at 8 am on a Tuesday morning and the place was packed and yet a month earlier on the same date and time there wasn’t a single patron. Why? How can this pattern or lack thereof...
