Long term interest rates have remained at historically low levels throughout the majority of the year. At the beginning of the year, most prognosticators anticipated interest rates to move up in lock step with Fed interest rate hikes. Most long-term…
Barry Slatt Mortgage Company CEO, Dan Friedeberg, recently sat down and interviewed Senior Vice President, Richard Davidson about the current state of the market for construction loans. The following are excerpts from the 7/31/2017 interview: Friedeberg: “What is causing the…
Heading into August of 2017, it is important to keep updated on what is happening in the ever-changing CREF (Commercial Real Estate Finance) market. The following is an update summarizing the four major lending categories: Life Companies Life insurance companies…
Barry Slatt Mortgage would like to profile a correspondent lender program. The following outlines one of our most competitive Life Insurance Company correspondent lenders in the market: Loan amounts range from $5-50 million Lends Nationally in major markets Typical loan…
As we all know, a down payment is required in order to get a commercial loan. In today’s compressed cap-rate environment, we very often hear something along the lines of “why do I have to put so much down?” I…
Throughout the first half of this year, there has been a consistent flattening of the US Treasury yield curve. In other words, long-term yields have come down while short-term yields have come up. The Fed has continued to push short-term…
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