-September 2, 2026
If you're in note investing, the ground under your deals is shifting, and not where the headlines are pointing.
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-August 26, 2026
Private credit has looked untouchable for years. Easy money, rising values, and defaults that stayed conveniently out of view.
-August 5, 2026
Nobody wants to talk about climate change and real estate in the same breath, so let me be the...
-July 29, 2026
Spend a week reading the housing market headlines and you'll come away sure the floor is about to give...
-July 23, 2026
While national debt and rates are rising, over decades of resolving distressed real estate, I'm seeing a whole set...
-July 22, 2026
I've spent decades buying paper on distressed real estate, and the most dangerous file is the one that looks...
-July 15, 2026
From the outside the housing market reads calm. Sit with the underlying data long enough, though, and a foreclosure...
Welcome
Bill Bymel
Real estate investor, advisor and CEO of First Lien Capital, a privately owned investment platform he founded in 2021, specializing in distressed debt and mortgage workout strategies on residential and commercial real estate. Through First Lien Resolutions, he provides Special Assets expertise to banks and funds on portfolio risk, recovery strategies, and profitable arbitrage.
Speaker, host of Debt Doctor and Real Estate Lowdown podcasts, and author of The Storm: Markets Meet Mother Nature (2026) revealing how converging forces are reshaping markets and offering the framework for investors and institutions to navigate what comes next. And Win-Win Revolution: An Insider’s Guide to Investing in the Secondary Mortgage Market (2017), pioneering collaborative approaches to loss mitigation that have helped institutions and investors navigate billions in troubled assets.
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