30 Days of TRET content continues with our first ever standalone market report. TRET Market Report 12/19/24

Normally we at TRET are content to remain in our corner of the real estate blogosphere, offering insightful content on all things real estat...

Mortgage rates have been news for some time now. Coverage about mortgages has recently turned toward news of a potential rate decrease. This...

Wintertime is usually a slow time for the residential real estate market. Cold temperatures and budgets that are recuperating from the holid...

Yet another year has come and gone for TRET and it’s time for our annual wrap up. Let’s start with this blog. This year started for us with ...

By Sharon Wagner Embarking on the path of higher education as an adult can be a financially daunting endeavor. In the quest to secure fundin...

Recently coming off the effects of nearly two years of rising interest rates by the Federal Reserve, the real estate market has been in a st...

Stephon Martin It is an interesting time in real estate—we stand on the precipice of the ending of a national foreclosure moratorium, intere...

Hello TRET Readers/Followers: Please check out the Tembo article below regarding  mortgage acronyms in the UK: 12 Baffling Mortgage Acronyms...

Stephon Martin The Biden administration has extended the COVID-19 moratorium on foreclosures to July 31, 2021. Totally avoiding the policy a...

Stephon Martin Adjustable-Rate Mortgages (ARMs) are a viable financing option for both single, multifamily and owner-occupied commercial pro...

The fight against property blight is a battle that has been waged for many decades. Some areas of the nation, have struggled with abandone...

Today's banks are unabashedly international businesses which thrive on providing services and taking advantage of opportunities through...

In his book Mortgage Wars , former CFO of Fannie Mae, Timothy Howard explains how Fannie's realization that mortgages behave like bonds...

In light of my previous post on timing the market, I thought that I would follow up with a post on one type of investment strategy that tak...

I recently read William Seidman's book Full Faith and Credit , which contains a detailed explanation of the S&L crash of the early ...

At long last, the end of the series! Personal bankruptcy is usually filed by an individual for very different reasons than corporate ...

Let us continue the bankruptcy theme begun in my last post and discuss the effects of Special Purpose Entity (SPE) bankruptcies and thei...

Mortgage-backed securitization is an essential part of the mortgage secondary market, as it provides both liquidity and expanded sources of...

Early in my whole loan trading career, an investor once offered to fund a partnership that would purchase second position liens, also known...