Bloomberg Markets: Cheap Private Loans Backfire on Rookie Home Flippers

Bloomberg Markets featured Forecasa data in their February/March 2026 cover story examining how private credit funds helped fuel a boom in risky real estate deals and the fallout as markets turned.

Forecasa's role in the story

Reporters Prashant Gopal and Patrick Clark used Forecasa analytics to quantify the scale of private lending activity and identify emerging stress signals in specific markets. The data helped illustrate how quickly conditions can shift in markets where private credit concentration is high.

Key themes

• Market stress signals in areas like Cape Coral, Florida, where foreclosure activity on privately financed properties has spiked
• The role of private credit in financing deals that conventional lenders wouldn't touch, and the risks that come with rapid growth
• Data as early warning and how platforms like Forecasa are giving the industry visibility into concentration risk before it becomes systemic

Why it matters

This kind of coverage highlights exactly why market intelligence matters in private lending. The lenders and investors who had visibility into concentration patterns and borrower behavior in these markets were better positioned to manage their exposure. Those who didn't were left reacting after the fact.