Real Estate

October 3, 2021 @ 9:27 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A £1.7m development loan to New Generation Developments is the latest move by Assetz Capital. The specialty lender has facilitated nearly £1.5bn of retail and institutional funds to UK businesses to date. New Generation Developments Ltd, a Cardiff-based construction company, secured the loan to build… Read More

October 2, 2021 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vtivek Ravi, Product Manager in the Risk and Compliance Department at EstateGuru, a property-backed loan marketplace catering to retail investors, joined the company at their Tallinn office around seven months ago. Vivek notes that his goal is to learn more about the overall risk and… Read More

October 2, 2021 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK-based Blend Network, a peer-to-peer lending platform, notes that the prospects of the United Kingdom’s macroeconomic environment are “becoming gradually more positive.” Blend Network writes in a blog post that the improvement is “reflected, among other factors, in job openings at a… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru, a property-backed loan marketplace catering to retail investors, has distributed an update on progress in Finland. In 2020, Estate Guru, which is based in Tallinn, entered Finland as a market expansion. At that time, EstateGuru said it had been actively talking to Finnish entrepreneurs since… Read More

September 25, 2021 @ 10:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based P2P lending platform Blend Network reports that annual house price growth in the country surged to 11.0% in July 2021 from around 10.5% in June 2021. This, according to the updated figures from the Nationwide House Price Index. In MoM terms, house prices increased… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 10:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Property investment platform Awning has exited stealth mode with the announcement of $9.3 million in seed funding. The investment was led by Global Founders Capital. Additional investors include: MassMutual Ventures and several angel investors including Side co-founders Guy Gal and Ed Wu, SafeGraph founder Auren… Read More

September 22, 2021 @ 2:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

GROUNDFLOOR, a real estate investment platform, has announced The Stairs app that is described as combining the traditional savings and investing, dubbed “savesting.” The app is currently available on the Apple App Store as well as Google Play. GROUNDFLOOR states that by using the app… Read More

September 22, 2021 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest plc (LSE: LINV), a top UK-based property finance platform, has sold a £100 million buy to let portfolio to JP Morgan. In January 2021 LendInvest completed the creation of a Separate Account Mandate with JP Morgan with a total capacity of £625 million. This… Read More

September 20, 2021 @ 9:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Security Token Market (STM), which serves as an information resource for blockchain-enabled security tokens, recently published their August 2021 edition of the Security Token Market Real Estate report. The report, which now has an updated structure for their monthly real estate analysis,… Read More

September 19, 2021 @ 10:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dedicated prime property lender CapitalRise has reportedly provided a mezzanine facility for a £4 million luxury penthouse located in Hyde Park. The facility — “agreed at 73% LTV on a 12-month term” — has been paired up with a development exit loan offered by a… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 11:29 am By JD Alois  |  

In the final days of its security offering on Seedrs, GuestReady has cruised past €2.3 million in funding on a target of €1 million. Investors are receiving a convertible security that holds a 10% discount on a future round. To date, 873 investors have backed… Read More

September 14, 2021 @ 11:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Property investment platform CrowdProperty has announced the launch of its Planning Gain Finance product, a service line that affirms the business’s commitment to partnering with SME developers. According to CrowdProperty, Planning Gain Finance will assist developers in securing developments that have not yet received the… Read More

September 10, 2021 @ 9:35 am By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru has raised €5.8 million in a Series A round of venture capital funding following a successful equity crowdfunding round on Seedrs this past spring. The funding round was led by TMT Investments Plc and an unnamed public company that was said to be an… Read More

September 8, 2021 @ 11:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Homeppl, a UK-based Proptech, has raised $1.4 million in funding round at a post-money valuation $13.5 million. This most recent funding brings total seed capital to over $5 million. Homeppl combines anti-fraud technology with Open Banking data to protect landlords from tenant fraud, and ensure… Read More

September 7, 2021 @ 11:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Oxane Partners, a tech-driven services provider to private markets, reveals that it has signed up two more clients, AllianceBernstein and Edmond de Rothschild REIM, for its Loan Servicing 2.0 offering. As mentioned in the announcement, lenders across the United Kingdom and Europe have signed up… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CalTier Realty, LLC (CalTier), the Fintech platform helping the average investor diversify their portfolio into cash-flowing commercial real estate, has formed a new partnership with Alto Solutions, Inc. (Alto) in order to enable investments from a self-directed IRA account into commercial real estate. As mentioned… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendingHome, one of the country’s largest lenders to real estate investors, reveals that it will change its name in “coming months” and rebrand as Kiavi. According to a release shared with CI, the new name, which comes from the phonetic representation of the Italian word… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 10:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Assurely and Otso have joined to offer commercial lease insurance. Assurely is an Insurtech that provides coverage to innovative new businesses like online marketplaces. This is Assurely’s first foray into the commercial real estate industry. Otso is a Fintech that offers an alternative to traditional… Read More

August 26, 2021 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO, a key player in blockchain innovation and liquidity for digital assets, reveals that its wholly owned, FINRA member broker-dealer subsidiary, tZERO ATS, has teamed up with MarketSpace Capital, a real estate private equity company. Through the partnership, the firms will support the trading of… Read More

August 24, 2021 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

In the past, investing in real estate has been relegated to the very wealthy or very determined. Sure, there have been REITs for ages, but these securities lean towards the opaque. Innovation in financial services has democratized access to a host of non-traditional asset classes… Read More