The Construction Lending Podcast

We examine the challenging and complex topics lenders face with construction and renovation loan products. The Construction Lending Podcast will share strategies, insights, information, trends, and best practices around all things related to construction finance.

The Construction Lending Podcast is a news podcast hosted by Land Gorilla, with 54 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Land Gorilla hosts The Construction Lending Podcast, a news show with 54 episodes published.

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  Keeping the Payment Chain Moving

  Oct 1, 202642 min

  Every construction loan depends on the people doing the work getting paid. Attorney Armando Montesino helps specialty trades in Florida understand and use their lien rights, and his plain-spoken videos have made lien law approachable for thousands of contractors. In this episode, he explains why a notice to owner is a transparency tool rather than a warning sign, how cost pressure can work its way down the payment chain, and the deadlines and paperwork details that determine whether a lien holds up. It's a clear look at how the trades think about getting paid, and the practices that help keep projects on track for everyone involved.

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  Manufactured Scarcity: How America got great at blocking construction

  Sep 15, 202640 min

  America has more land than almost any country on earth and a long history of building fast and cheap, so why can't we produce enough housing? This week, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City and Survival of the City , joins us to argue that the affordability crisis is fundamentally a construction problem, and one we've inflicted on ourselves. We trace how decades of hyperlocal land-use regulation quietly turned America from a country built for outsiders into one that protects insiders, why an industry that once mass-produced entire neighborhoods now builds one unit at a time, and what the crisis is really costing us in productivity, in upward mobility, and in a generation locked out of homeownership. Glaeser also lays out where he sees room for hope, from accessory dwelling units and prefab housing to smarter ways of tying federal dollars to construction. It's a wide-ranging, clear-eyed conversation about how we manufactured our own scarcity and what it would take to build our way out.

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  The Rules Starving Housing Supply

  Aug 21, 202649 min

  Home prices used to run 3 to 4 times household income. Much of the country is now at 5 times or higher, with California in the 10-to-12 range — and Dr. Jenny Schuetz argues the market isn't what failed. The Arnold Ventures Vice President of Infrastructure, Housing and author of Fixer Upper explains how zoning locks neighborhoods into the form they took decades ago, and why the approval process is the part construction lenders should watch: timelines stretching to 10 or 12 years pile up carrying costs, and the length, complexity, and uncertainty of the process is what kills an awful lot of deals. The reforms she maps (by-right approval, front-loaded community engagement, and legalizing townhouses and missing-middle housing) are already moving through statehouses red and blue, with Florida's Live Local Act alone showing more than 70,000 units in the pipeline.

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  The Lender’s AIA Guide

  Aug 5, 202642 min

  G702s, Modifications, and the Loan Gap The construction agreement between your borrower and their general contractor was negotiated and signed before your institution ever saw it — and the documents driving your draw process, like the G702 and G703 payment applications, trace back to a standardization effort that began in the late 1800s.

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  The Remodeling Boom: NAHB's Mid-Year Housing Market Outlook

  Jul 14, 202639 min

  Remodeling is about to become more than half of all residential construction in America — and NAHB Chief Economist Dr. Robert Dietz has the data behind it. In this mid-year housing market outlook, Dr. Dietz breaks down the forces powering renovation's rise from a third of construction activity in 2007 to 45% today: more than $35 trillion in homeowner equity, a housing stock averaging over 40 years old, and a mortgage rate lock-in effect keeping homeowners in place and reinvesting in the homes they have. Construction lenders will find a practical map of where renovation lending demand is growing — including the fastest-growing remodeling markets in the Northeast and Midwest — plus the rise of teardown construction, the outlook for HELOC and renovation loan demand as rates fall, the risks that could slow the boom, and a first look at NAHB's new quarterly state-level remodeling estimates.

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