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Pretium Perspectives: Karen Kulvin on Opportunities in Multifamily Debt

Pretium Perspectives is a regular Q&A series where senior leaders from across the Firm share their insights into trends and themes shaping markets and our business. In this edition, Karen Kulvin, Managing Director in Pretium’s Real Estate Debt business, discusses opportunities emerging from construction lending and a growing refinancing gap, the evolving multifamily market, and […]

Pretium Perspectives: Mark Hudspeth on Capital Markets at Scale

Pretium Perspectives is a regular Q&A series where senior leaders from across the Firm share their insights into trends and themes shaping markets and our business. In this edition, Mark Hudspeth, Head of Capital Markets, discusses Pretium’s 50th SFR securitization, market evolution, and how our integrated platform and data-driven approach help scale innovation in housing […]

Pretium Perspectives: Sarah Kong on Finding Opportunity in the $13trn Mortgage Market

Pretium Perspectives is a regular Q&A series where senior leaders from across the Firm share their insights into trends and themes shaping markets and our business. In this edition, Sarah Kong, Managing Director in Residential Credit, explores the strength of the U.S. homeowner and the implications for investment opportunities across the $13 trillion U.S. mortgage market. Read the full […]

Thought Leadership

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Private Capital is Part of the Solution to the Housing Crisis

We believe private capital is part of the solution to America’s housing affordability crisis. Private capital is helping to expand the availability of quality, affordable rental housing for working families, while providing a critical source of funding for homebuilders and developers who are increasing the nation’s housing supply. See this fact sheet, which outlines key […]

Pretium Co-President Stephen Scherr on the Walker Webcast

In an episode of the Walker Webcast, Pretium’s Co-President Stephen Scherr and Willy Walker, Chairman and CEO of Walker & Dunlop, discuss the shifting dynamics of the U.S. housing market, the impact of interest rates and regulation on new housing construction, and how affordability challenges and demographic trends are shaping housing demand. Listen to the […]

Professor Raj Chetty at the 2025 Pretium Investor Symposium—Investing in Economic Opportunity

At the 2025 Pretium Investor Symposium, we welcomed Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Director of Opportunity Insights, whose research shows that children with exposure to “higher-opportunity” communities—with lower poverty rates, stronger family stability, higher-quality schools, and greater social capital— have higher earning potential than peers in lower-opportunity areas. Pretium applies Professor […]

Two Charts

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Two Charts: The Annual $400B Homebuilder Finance Gap

Two Charts is a research series from Pretium that provides focused, data-driven analysis of the trends reshaping real estate and the broader economy. Each edition conveys a key market insight through two concise, high-impact charts. In this edition, we examine the financing needs of U.S. homebuilders as traditional bank lending to the sector contracts – […]

Two Charts: Housing Affordability

Two Charts is a new research series from Pretium that provides focused, data-driven analysis of the trends reshaping real estate and the broader economy. Each edition conveys a key market insight through two concise, high-impact charts. Our inaugural edition evaluates the mortgage-rate threshold needed to meaningfully narrow today’s cost divide between owning and renting—and assesses […]

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