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Texas Data Center Boom 2026: Financing the Housing Build-Out Around Megaprojects

Quick answer: Texas’s AI data-center and chip-plant boom — 248+ projects statewide, roughly 6.5 GW under construction, and JLL projecting Texas becomes the world’s largest data-center hub by 2030 — is creating an acute housing shortage in boomtowns like Abilene, Taylor, Sherman and Bastrop. For real estate investors, that translates into demand for new rental […]

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Non-Warrantable Condo & Condotel Loans: Financing Condos Banks Reject

Non-warrantable condo loans finance condominium units that conventional lenders won’t touch — condotels, high investor-concentration buildings, projects in litigation, or developments with heavy short-term rental. Because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac decline these projects, financing comes from private, portfolio, and non-QM lenders that underwrite the unit and the borrower rather than the agency project checklist. […]

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Foreign National & ITIN Mortgage Loans: How Non-US Investors Finance Property

Foreign national mortgage loans let investors without a U.S. Social Security number finance income property in the United States. These are business-purpose, asset-based loans — underwritten on the property and a down payment rather than a U.S. credit score or tax return — which is why private and non-QM lenders, not banks, dominate this niche. […]