I recently attended an investors conference with 900 of my closest
friends/investors they had some interesting thoughts we can apply to Hawaii
investment properties.
Subordinated notes are seeing good activity. The new owners of these
subordinate pieces will be tougher and fight harder to stay in the game as
the net income of the properties begins to rise.2) We may be seeing the
beginning of “workout fatigue” which translates into some of the loan
servicers tiring of re-working or extending loans a 3rd and 4th time. They
will begin foreclosing on more loans at this point in the cycle. 3) Some
servicers are allowing short sales of mortgages, renegotiating terms and
adding a “hope note” for some future sale or refinancing which could make
the lender whole on their original loan. 4) Another activity that is gaining
momentum is purchase of notes that are performing but have a maturity
default. Servicers are turning to this so that they can recover a majority
of the principal of their loans and allow their people to focus on more
troubled loans that need a lot of attention.