Wall Street Is Getting In On the House Flipping Game
Updated: Mar 16, 2022
May 13, 2018 12:00 pm ET
KKR & Co. is raising its bet on high-interest, short-term home loans, the latest sign that Wall Street firms are aiming to cash in on the risky but lucrative house-flipping market.
Borrowers of residential transitional loans—or flip loans, as they are better known—use the money to buy a property, renovate it and then try to quickly resell at a profit. They have become a lucrative and growing niche of finance in recent years. Nomura Holdings Inc. estimates that flippers will borrow some $15 billion this year, nearly 25%...
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/wall-street-is-getting-in-on-the-house-flipping-game-1526227200