By William Kugel
While the real estate and finance markets continue to stagnate, the niche of construction lending has been especially hard hit. Financing new construction these days is worlds apart from what people remember prior to the “mortgage meltdown”. In this article I will not only outline the difficulties in the marketplace for construction loans, but also suggest some “work-around” solutions.
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