Jerry Coleman, co-founder of several Arizona real estate businesses, keynotes ASU event honoring him for Spirit of Enterprise Award.

Real estate projects that usually have trouble attracting the interest of banks are gaining momentum with alternative financing tools such as the EB-5 program, the JOBS Act and smaller, specialty lenders.

Real estate professor Andra Ghent’s study of historical mortgage laws and foreclosure statistics shows that state laws vary greatly and, when laws require lenders to work through the court system, foreclosure processes tend to drag on and on. Such delays can hobble housing-market recovery.

U.S. News & World Report Money published a story on January 30, 2015, about ways to get around a dismal credit rating if you want to buy a house.  Mike Orr, director of the Center for real Estate Theory and Practice, weighed in on seller financing.