Due Diligence Best Practices for Your Real Estate Investments
When you’re considering any act with respect to your real estate investments, it’s important to carefully evaluate every aspect of the decision or transaction. Due diligence is a common term borrowed from the legal profession. It describes the process involved in fully researching any issue or decision.
Sharestates Real Estate Lending Programs Explained
At Sharestates, we have committed a focus to our “bread and butter” hard money fix and flip loans along the East Coast. As the company and client base has grown, we have expanded that focus to meet the unique needs that come across our desks daily.
Working Capital Access for Your Lending Brokerage & Clients
There are times when getting your client’s project funded turns into a challenging task. Maybe the money market is tight, private investors are conservative, or the project doesn’t fit conventional lending criteria. When this scenario arises, it’s valuable to have additional sources of working capital available to meet the needs of your brokerage clients.
Finding Commercial Real Estate Loans to Create Value for Your Clients
The real estate business is tough. You know what I mean: generating leads, closing transactions, and getting paid is a constant struggle. For brokers, agents, loan officers, title reps, escrow officers, appraisers, attorneys, and anyone involved in real estate, it’s critical to offer maximum value.
What is Crowdfunding? Straightforward Answers to Common Questions.
After twenty years since its debut, there is still a lot of mystery around the subject of crowdfunding. We’ve put together answers to 7 of your top questions to help you understand what crowdfunding represents. Peer-to-peer lending can be of tremendous value to your investment efforts as a real estate developer and accredited investor.
Commercial Appraisals. Property Valuation Questions Answered.
Properly valuing your current property, or those that you are considering for acquisition, will provide essential market data to help you make the most profitable decisions for your portfolio. The valuation process can create anxiety for all parties involved in the investment business.
Getting to The Closing Table Faster
There are a lot of reasons to close a real estate purchase as quickly as possible. When investors can get to the closing table quickly, they can appease a seller who wants to get a property off their hands as quickly as possible. At the same time, there’s fewer chances of something “going wrong” in the seller’s’ life that may lead to a problem in the sale.
Cap Rate & IRR. Definitions for Accredited Investors.
If you’re an active or accredited investor, you may already be very familiar with the concept of cap rate and internal rate of return (IRR), but it’s always good to review the concept no matter what stage of your investment career you’re in. These financial metrics are some of the most commonly used in the commercial real estate investment business.
Online Real Estate Investment Tools to Manage Your Portfolio
It can take tremendous effort to balance your investment activities with your career, business, and personal life. Fortunately, the modern online real estate investment field offers many tools to help you coordinate your tasks. As an accredited investor, it’s vital to track projects, monitor performance, and manage employees and stakeholders.
2018: The Year of Online Real Estate Financing?
When it comes to investing in real estate, most would-be buyers have a significant decision to make about how they’re going to source the right finance. In recent years, the real estate finance industry has seen increased pressure on risk retention rules and reserve requirements.
