Following a year of growth, we continued to see strong owner financing numbers in 2024 with an 8% increase in dollar volume of created notes compared to last year. Let's dive into the numbers and see what other trends we saw. Insights on Owner Financing Trends Even as overall real estate activity cooled, the consistent creation of private notes underscores … [Read more...] about Seller Financing Held Strong in 2024
State of the Note Industry
Inflation and Note Investing
There is a lot of talk lately about inflation. But what about inflation and note investing? It stands to reason inflation has people worried after we kicked off January and February 2022 with some unusually high numbers (7.5% and 7.9% respectively) — or so we thought. Then March and April were even higher at 8.5% and 8.3% respectively. NOTE: Keep in mind those are … [Read more...] about Inflation and Note Investing
Owner Financing Increases In 2021 – State of the Industry
The Seller Financing Stats are In for 2021 What Can We Learn from the Seller Financing Trends in 2021? Hear are some takeaways from Scott Arpan of Advanced Seller Data Services: "Seller-carry note creation jumped nearly 7% in 2021 over 2020. Over 84% of notes created in 2021 were made by one-off sellers, a 10% increase over 2020. Large residential loans … [Read more...] about Owner Financing Increases In 2021 – State of the Industry
2020 Seller Finance Stats – Coming Out of COVID
The number of notes created through owner financing in 2020 reached $23.57 Billion. 2020 Real Estate Note Industry by the Numbers The dollar volume of new seller financed notes was $23.57 Billion which was a small 1.78% decrease from the $23.9 Billion created in 2019.There were 84,007 seller financed 1st position notes in 2020 compared to 86,155 in 2019.The … [Read more...] about 2020 Seller Finance Stats – Coming Out of COVID
The State of The Real Estate Note Industry
We just returned from the NoteWorthy convention where everyone seemed to be talking about three things: 1. The increase of owner financed notes (up by over 15% in 2012); 2. The opportunities in non-performing notes; and 3. How to effectively market a note business online. It was great to … [Read more...] about The State of The Real Estate Note Industry