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Spotlight On Residential Real Estate Investment Loans

by Eric Atlas Residential Investment Loans (“RILs”) are business purpose loans secured by “fix and flip” or rental properties owned by professional investors and secured by 1st lien mortgages. Bridge loans are short-term loans (usually 6 to 24-months in duration, with an average life of less than a year) to property investors who buy, renovate, and sell homes for profit (the aforementioned fix and flip investments) or lease, refinance and

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How COVID Has Changed CRE Lending

Debt Markets Are Improving by the Day by Cynthia A. Hammond Capital allocated to lending on commercial and multifamily real estate is plentiful today, especially for individual investments of over $30 million. The COVID shutdown caused lenders and investors to pull back from originating loans in the 2nd & 3rd quarters of 2020. As recovery from the COVID induced recession commenced, investors were awash with capital to be placed in

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What Lenders Should Look for in a Capital Provider

Choose Your Partners Carefully to Avoid Risk by Eli Novey A Demand for Housing Means a Demand for Capital The need for capital in the residential real estate market has never been more acute. The lack of available housing inventory, already an issue before the pandemic, has only become more complex and widespread in the past 18 months. For more than a decade, the United States has massively underinvested in

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Valuation Options for Lending

As an alternative to traditional appraisals, faster and cheaper valuation options are available to keep your pipeline flowing and your confidence high. In this day in age, where time is of the essence and deals can be completed in a matter of days rather than weeks, there is still one part of the process that can hit a snag rather frequently: Full appraisals can take time and are expensive. However,

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Real Estate Investing Outlook

What’s the industry look like for the fourth quarter of 2020 and beyond? Heading into the fourth quarter of 2020 is the perfect time to evaluate what impact, if any, the pandemic has had on the real estate industry as well as predict what investors should be prepared for as this tumultuous year comes to a close. Is the Housing Market Recovering? Let’s get right to the question that so

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Understanding Hard Money Loans Versus Fix-and-Flip Loans

Why you may be confusing the two and missing out on your best options Fix-and-flip and hard money loans are among the most popular financing programs for investors in single and multifamily homes. Although they are two different products, many people both inside and outside the mortgage and real estate industries believe they are the same. This the furthest thing from the truth. Mortgage originators who work with these types

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