Secured Investment Lending News & Events

Put your fears about bad credit aside. Just because you have bad credit, filed bankruptcy or gone through a foreclosure does NOT mean you cannot buy a home. You most certainly can buy a home with bad credit. But you're going to pay more than a borrower who has sparkling credit.

Conventional wisdom seems to suggest that recent housing data points to reasons for analysts to worry about the direction of the economy. A new report makes the case that the picture is much brighter then their consensus would lead one to think. "It's scary to be a contrarian, particularly if you're contrarian and bullish.

Tri-county area had 1.6 percent month-to-month increase, according to Case-Shiller South Florida home prices climbed 16.2 percent from March 2013 to March 2014, according to the latest report from Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller.

Palm Beach, Broward counties post 54 and 43 percent declines in new cases Foreclosures continue to decline throughout the tri-county area of South Florida. Palm Beach County had a 54 percent drop in new foreclosure filings during the first four months of 2014, according to the latest report from Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac.

If you want to take the temperature of the housing industry, the best place to go could be a car dealership. Yes, you read that right. There is a strong correlation between the real estate market and auto sales - particularly when it comes to the most iconic American vehicle of all, the pickup truck.

The purchase of pickup trucks has a deep correlation to planned increases in new home construction. Construction workers have a special reliance on certain makes and models to transport construction supplies and tools of industry, and often purchase additional (or up-to-date) vehicles in the case new building projects are on the horizon.

Bolstered by the housing recovery, a growing number of homeowners are going it alone when selling their homes hoping to save thousands of dollars in commissions. The hot housing market in Cambridge, Mass., gave Jon LaRosa the confidence to sell his condo on his own.

For the first time in almost a decade, Orlando has gotten an official tally for the number of Brazilians visiting Central Florida - and the figure is much larger than expected. About 639,000 Brazilians traveled to Orlando in 2012, according to international-visitor statistics recently released by the U.S.

Thanks to a sharp increase in home prices last quarter, 2.5 million more mortgage borrowers no longer owe more on their homes than they are worth, according to CoreLogic. By the end of June, 7.1 million, or 14.5%, of mortgage borrowers remained underwater on their loans compared with 9.6 million, or 19.7%, at the end ...

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