Banks Delay in Funding on Commercial Loans in Q1 2015
Tuesday, February 24
The first quarter of 2015 has been a busy one for banks, so busy in fact, that many of the first quarter loans will be pushed into Q2 for funding. Bridge lenders saw a spike in loan requests in February 2015 as a result of these bank delays, particularly on large balance commercial loans. Mary Co...
Pay Attention to 'How' You're Submitting Hard Money Bridge Loans
Tuesday, February 17
From a January article I wrote for the commercial edition of the Scotsman Guide, there are so many common mistakes made by brokers when submitting hard money loans to lenders. But why and how can these common mistakes be avoided? Read more about the pain that some brokers go through, by checking ...
Commercial Investors to See Competition for Commercial Loans in 2015
Thursday, October 30
If you are looking for commercial financing as we head into 2015, you may want to pay attention and get a head start. With billions in commercial mortgage backed securities loans coming due in 2015, competition for commercial loans will be fierce. Increased competition among the borrowers of comm...
Is Banking Too Regulated to Be Disrupted by FinTech Startups?
Friday, October 03
Will banks suffer the same fate as bookstores suffered to Amazon? With financial tech startups like PayPal and other non-bank providers of financial services threatening to encroach on traditional banking territory, will banks continue to be relevant to the younger generations to come?According t...
Crowd Funding in Real Estate Finance a Growing Trend
Monday, September 22
Crowdfunding of real estate is an area of microlending that is growing quickly. According to Christian Faes, founder of LendInvest, everyone is jumping on the crowdfunding “bandwagon” these days. There are two predominant microlending models for financing real estate: Peer to Peer lending and Cro...
Is China's Economy Sagging: China Central Bank to Insert $80bn
Wednesday, September 17
China’s sagging economy has heard rumors of a stimulus plan by the Chinese Central Bank to inject approximately $80bn into its banking system. In response to massive economic decline in recent months largely from speculative over development that began in 2009, the central bank of China is making...