The Construction Lending Podcast
We examine the challenging and complex topics lenders face with construction and renovation loan products. The Construction Lending Podcast will share strategies, insights, information, trends, and best practices around all things related to construction finance.
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Manufactured Scarcity: How America got great at blocking construction (opens the original)
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America has more land than almost any country on earth and a long history of building fast and cheap, so why can't we produce enough housing? This week, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City and Survival of the City , joins us to argue that the affordability crisis is fundamentally a construction problem, and one we've inflicted on ourselves. We trace how decades of hyperlocal land-use regulation quietly turned America from a country built for outsiders into one that pr
The Rules Starving Housing Supply (opens the original)
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Home prices used to run 3 to 4 times household income. Much of the country is now at 5 times or higher, with California in the 10-to-12 range — and Dr. Jenny Schuetz argues the market isn't what failed. The Arnold Ventures Vice President of Infrastructure, Housing and author of Fixer Upper explains how zoning locks neighborhoods into the form they took decades ago, and why the approval process is the part construction lenders should watch: timelines stretching to 10 or 12 years pile up carrying
The Lender’s AIA Guide (opens the original)
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G702s, Modifications, and the Loan Gap The construction agreement between your borrower and their general contractor was negotiated and signed before your institution ever saw it — and the documents driving your draw process, like the G702 and G703 payment applications, trace back to a standardization effort that began in the late 1800s.
The Remodeling Boom: NAHB's Mid-Year Housing Market Outlook (opens the original)
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Remodeling is about to become more than half of all residential construction in America — and NAHB Chief Economist Dr. Robert Dietz has the data behind it. In this mid-year housing market outlook, Dr. Dietz breaks down the forces powering renovation's rise from a third of construction activity in 2007 to 45% today: more than $35 trillion in homeowner equity, a housing stock averaging over 40 years old, and a mortgage rate lock-in effect keeping homeowners in place and reinvesting in the homes th
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