Don Newman's (donewman) Blog

I’ve had the pleasure to work for a very large mortgage origination company and that enabled me to watch other loan originators talk with their clients and prospects. It helped me to see what worked for them and what didn’t work for them. One of the things that I was always amazed by was the meet...

For many years, I’ve informally theorized that much in the value of real estate (what the public will pay) was directly related to financing. An obvious example of this theory is the “Kiddie Condo”. You know those converted apartments that parents buy for their kids to go to school. When their ch...

Hardly a day goes by that some “mortgage meltdown” or “real estate bubble” article doesn’t land in my inbox. Let’s face facts, for the first time in my 20 plus year experience in mortgage and real estate finance business practice – we’re seeing very little to make us feel much optimism about how ...

Changes to the mortgage and home loan business have been swift and the implications to the changes have been sudden. Many unsuspecting homeowners and prospective homebuyers have been caught from the blind side. Assumptions that were valid and supported by years of practical experience are now ina...