The best hard money lenders in 2025 + hard money loans explained

Choosing the right hard money lender for your investment project can be challenging. With nearly three decades of experience in real estate and investing, I’ve worked with hard money lenders to secure financing for everything from simple fix-and-flip projects to multi-million-dollar apartment buildi

Redfin: Homebuyers’ average down payment rises to 16% of purchase price

The typical U.S. homebuyer put down 16.3% of the purchase price in December, up from 15% a year earlier, as rising home prices pushed down payments higher, according to a new report from Redfin.In dollar terms, the average down payment in December was $63,188, an increase of 7.5% from the previous y

What Home Depot’s Q4 earnings say about the 2025 housing market

Home Depot expects same-store sales in 2025 to be just 1.0% better than this past year, an indication that the housing market will remain slow.That 1% growth projection is below the 1.65% rate expected by Wall Street analysts, and comes on the back of a fairly disappointing 2024, in which elevated m