Compete To Be Your Best

A simple strategy of daily self-improvement can help mortgage professionals find success
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A Promising View

Ongoing challenges aren’t deterring fix-and-flip investor activities
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Lessons Must Be Learned

After the recent bank failures, mortgage lenders should seek new risk management strategies
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Commercial Spotlight: Mountain Region

Strong economic growth has returned to these four states.
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Unleashing Opportunities

Recent changes to the CDC/504 loan program empower mortgage brokers and clients
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Make Hard Money Work for You

This private lending subset can help clients, but care should be taken
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The industrial-sector forecast calls for stabilized growth
The moderating “slowcession” economy has recently helped to cool performance within the once red-hot industrial real estate sector. Rent growth, while still a bit above the long-term quarterly average, is now well below its pandemic-era peaks across warehouses and distribution facilities as well as flex spaces for research and development (R&D). Furthermore, net absorption for […]
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International Investments: Singapore

With about 6 million citizens, the east Asian city-state of Singapore doesn’t even crack the top 50 among the world’s largest cities. But it happens to be the third most-densely populated nation in the world at 47,000 people per square mile. And even though Singapore has been an independent country for less than 60 years, […]
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High interest rates impact industrial sales volume during first half of year

Property prices hold steady; outlook remains positive
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Data center demand stays hot, widening supply-demand imbalance

Developing technologies like artificial intelligence continue to boost subsector
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Residential investors stay involved as second-quarter market share essentially unchanged

‘No sign that the share will fall back to its pre-pandemic level,’ according to CoreLogic
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Author Showcase: Rob Finlay, Thirty Capital

In Episode 010 of the Scotsman Guide Author Showcase, Carl White interviews Rob Finlay about his article, “Sharpening the Technology Edge,” in the August 2023 issue of Scotsman Guide Commercial Edition. Rob Finlay is founder and CEO of investment firm Thirty Capital, which helps operators and investors in the commercial real estate industry generate market-beating […]
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Commercial and multifamily originations down 53% year over year in second quarter

Growing cost of capital fuels plunge from strong Q2 in 2022
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RentCafe: Converted apartments set for ‘impressive growth’

122,000 units currently undergoing conversion process into residential spaces
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JLL: Industrial real estate fundamentals beginning to cool

Absorption set for big drop after deliveries of pre-leased assets
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