Loan Programs and the Lending World With Cary Pearce #678

Bruce Norris and Aaron are joined this week by Cary Pearce. He is the branch manager and senior loan manager for Flagstar Bank. He has over 25 years in the lending business, and Bruce has known Cary for just about as long as he's been in the business. 

In this segment, Bruce, Aaron, and Cary will discuss how long he has been in the industry, the market during the downturn, what the credit expectation was during this time, what programs he could see re-implemented today that were aggressive then, changes to Fannie Mae that will be a game-changer next year, the ratio of refis to purchase loans, the lending business and whether it is more competitive now, and much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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Rich Ford of Roofstock Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #472

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Rich Ford. Rich is Chief Development Officer and co-founder of Roofstock, a semi-stealth new startup based in Oakland. His website bills the company as “rental home investing made stock market simple.” Invitees who are starting to buy and sell on the site have called it the e-trade of occupied rental home investing. Rich is far from a newcomer to the single-family rental market. Before Roofstock, Rich spent 20 years doing investment banking with a focus on capital-raising and strategic advisory within the real estate sector and emerging single-family rental industry. Firms included Jeffries, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Leihman Brothers, and Morgan Stanley. He hosted the first ever single-family rental conference back in May 2012.

He was also instrumental in the formation of Invitation Homes, the largest owner of single-family residences and rentals in the U.S. today. He has worked with all the largest participants in the SFR sector on capital raising and advisory work. This includes providing expertise on most of the IPOs. He was integral to the creation of a new class of preferred security for AMH that links home appreciation to returns. He also advised on the sale of over 6,000 single-family rental homes included many of the major transactions in the market. He is a frequent moderator and panelist at single-family rental conferences.

Bruce and Rich discuss different inventory, which are good cash-flowing assets, the percentage of properties that were bulk sales, the challenges rental companies are facing, public capital and blind pool, net asset value, the biggest areas of accumulation, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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David Goldberg of UBS Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #397

Bruce Norris is joined this week by David Goldberg. David is an executive director at UBS, covering the building and building product sector. Before assuming coverage, David was an associate analyst who focused on the home-building companies within the sector. Prior to this and before business school, he worked at the Convergent Wealth Advisors, a wealth management firm in Rockville, Maryland that focuses on providing independent financial advice to high net worth families. Bruce and David discuss businesses which are buying and renting distressed properties, their exit strategies and creating scattered REITs, the transition to the next stage in the housing recovery, construction in 2013 that drove demand above supply, margin liquidity and marginal easing, the source of capital, the process by which we funded loans back in 2004-2006, builder outlook, CD locations, the building industry overall, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.




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Sean O'Toole Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #391

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by Sean O’Toole.  Sean is the founder of PropertyRadar.com.  He began his very successful career as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley working with people and starting up companies.  He is a personal friend, and he and Bruce have gone on trips together down to Washington D.C. to do research.  PropertyRadar.com is a big advantage to any investor or realtor who has access to it since it helps them navigate the real estate market and find things easier than you would have any other way. Bruce and Sean discuss low sales this year, credit terms and how they are not showing signs of loosening, the new programs for lower FICO scores and stated income, the impact of foreign investors in California, hedge funds and REITs, the ramifications of being below trend, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.







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Rick Sharga, Vice President of Carrington Holding Company, LLC, Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #328

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Rick Sharga. Rick is an executive vice president at Carrington Mortgage Holdings, LLC. Rick is one of the most often quoted experts and has been on almost every television show about real estate records. He has been seen on NBC Nightly News, CNN, CBS, NBC. He is a trusted voice in what is going on in the real estate world. Bruce and Rick discuss the time he spoke in front of the Federal Reserve and Senate Banking Committee, vertical integration, Carrington Holding Company and their new programs and services, Carrington's business model in addition to other business models, rent values, long-term holds, and much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.

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Sean O'Toole Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #313

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by Sean O’Toole. Sean is the founder and president of ForeclosureRadar.com, one of the finest websites a real estate investor can get involved with on a regular basis.Sean has done an excellent job on the website and put his computer genius to work in the industry, saving a lot of people a lot of money. He has also created competition that did not exist prior to his website by making it easier for people to become very proficient. Bruce and Sean discuss his foreclosure website and how it has grown into a short sale referral network, California's budget problems and where we may actually see improvement, delayed household growth, hedge funds and their impact on rents, REITs, affordability being close to all-time highs, new policies in the future following price aggression, and more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast. 

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I Survived Real Estate 2012 Part 6 #306

On October 19, 2012, The Norris Group proudly presented I Survived Real Estate 2012.  An expert line-up of industry experts joined Bruce Norris to discuss perplexing industry trends, head-scratching legislation, and the outlook for real estate in the coming year.  Over $77,000 was raised to benefit Make a Wish and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Bruce Norris brought up the entire panel of experts to discuss industry trends and the coming legislation.  Bruce discussed with them the FICO requirement for the average Fannie Mae loan, REITs, the new California foreclosure law, the California Homeowner Bill of Rights, the fiscal cliff, the general agreement on what needs to be cut, interest rate deductions, mortgage deductions, and more.  To find out more, tune in next week for I Survived Real Estate 2012, part 6.

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I Survived Real Estate 2012 Part 5 #305

On October 19, 2012, The Norris Group proudly presented I Survived Real Estate 2012.  An expert line-up of industry experts joined Bruce Norris to discuss perplexing industry trends, head-scratching legislation, and the outlook for real estate in the coming year.  Over $77,000 was raised to benefit Make a Wish and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Bruce Norris welcomed Rick Sharga of Carrington Holdings Company and Sean O'Toole of ForeclosureRadar to the panel.  Bruce discusses with them the business model for Carrington Holdings Company, the REIT format, the creation of new security products, the different sources for properties that can be purchased, note sales, the future of shadow inventory, and more.  To find out more, tune in next week for I Survived Real Estate 2012, part 6.

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Sean O'Toole, President of ForeclosureRadar, Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #296

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Sean O'Toole. Sean is the founder and CEO of ForeclosureRadar.com, the only company that tracks every foreclosure in California with daily updates on all foreclosure auctions. Prior to ForeclosureRadar, Sean spent 15 years building and launching software companies before entering the foreclosure business in 2002. Here, he has successfully bought and sold more than 150 properties. Bruce and Sean discuss how Sean first became involved in the foreclosure business, the margin of spread in 2002 compared to today, the access to information compared to today, where the money in the marketplace is coming from, the status of yields in the market, REOs and shadow inventory, and much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.

In other news, the fifth annual I Survived Real Estate will be meeting on October 19 this year. The Norris Group would like to thank their gold and platinum sponsors for helping to make this event possible. Sean O'Toole will be joining the panel at I Survived Real Estate 2012.
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Ray McLaine Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #225

This week Bruce is joined once again by Ray McLaine. Ray is the founder and president of the Commercial REO Brokers Association. Ray began his career in commercial real estate 30 years ago. He has developed apartment complexes, condo projects and a mini warehouse.

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