About The Norris Group
The Norris Group actively invests in California real estate, funds millions in hard money loans for investor every month, and produces award-winning education and resources to help real estate professionals succeed in an ever-changing real estate market.
The Norris Group is dedicated to providing the highest level of service in every facet of real estate investing, trust deed investments, and investor education. We are driven by service, not sales, and are committed to providing real estate professionals with the tools needed to succeed.
The Norris Group Vision
The Norris Group strongly believes in the tremendous value professional real estate investors bring to the marketplace. As residential redevelopment specialists, real estate investors create jobs, beautify neighborhoods, increase tax revenue, and turn neglected, vacant blight into livable homes. For this, investors deserve a reasonable profit and should be seen as an important partner and solution in the current real estate downturn.
Bruce Norris
Bruce Norris is an active investor, hard money lender, and real estate educator with over 30 years experience. Bruce has been involved in over 2,000 real estate transactions as a buyer, seller, builder, and money partner.
Renowned for his ability to forecast long-term real estate market trends and timing, the release of The California Comeback report in 1997 gained him much notoriety and its accuracy of the extensive report led many California investors to financial freedom. His January 2006 release, The California Crash, was an in-depth look into the California market correction and the statistics behind Bruce’s predictions. Bruce has released subsequent follow up research including Category 5 and All In or Fold.
Bruce speaks and debates nationally and has been a guest speaker at the REOMAC, Inman, HouwingWire, California Association of Realtors, California Builders Industry Association, California Mortgage Association, the Real Estate Research Council, and several local and national investment clubs, associations, and service clubs.
Bruce is also host of the award-winning series, I Survived Real Estate. The events brings together leaders from numerous real estate sectors to discuss legislation, regulation, stimulus-related issues, and solutions to the current downturn. The events have helped raise nearly $350,000 for cancer research.
Bruce hosts the award-winning Norris Group Real Estate Radio Show and Podcast on KTIE 590am he interviews real estate industry leaders, authors, government officials, and economists. Guests have included the FBI, the MBA, Freddie Mac, Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital, John Mauldin, C.A.R., the Appraisal Institute, HUD, Foreclosure Radar, RealtyTrac, PIMCO, PMI Group, REDC, the National Auctioneers Association, and the Center for Responsible Lending to name a few. There are over 250 shows and 100 hours of free education in our real estate radio archives.
Bruce has contributed articles to many real estate magazines and newsletters including The Business Press, Scottsman Guide, Creative Real Estate Magazine, The Orange County Register, RealtyTrac’s Foreclosure Newsletter, AOA Magazine, and the Daily Commerce. He has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fox Business News, Nightline ABC, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Good Morning America, the Los Angeles Times, Fortune, Mortgage Banker Magazine, Money Magazine, Reuters, Associated Press, The Orange County Register, The Tribune, and numerous others.
Bruce currently serves on the Executive Board for the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California.