Real Estate

August 23, 2020 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CapitalRise, an online platform for prime property lending and investing, recently appointed five new staff members – which notably includes an associate director and finance director to manage the company’s lending business. Stuart Peel will be serving as CapitalRise’s finance director. He previously worked, for… Read More

August 22, 2020 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stuart Law, CEO at Assetz Capital, a peer to peer lender providing secured loans to businesses, argues that residential property in the UK will be the primary beneficiary from COVID-19’s negative impact on the nation’s retail industry. As reported by Peer2Peer Finance, there’s an improvement… Read More

August 21, 2020 @ 9:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  AlphaFlow, an online investment platform for real estate assets, is now seeking funds through its Regulation CF (RegCF) campaign on crowdfunding platform Republic. Founded in 2015, AlphaFlow described itself as a tech-driven investment manager that provides professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to… Read More

August 20, 2020 @ 9:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Offr, a UK-based prop-tech platform digitizing the buying, selling and leasing process for real estate agents and buyers, today announced it has raised £2.7 million through its latest seed funding round, which was led by Barclays with participation from Delta Partners on behalf of Bank… Read More

August 19, 2020 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

PeerStreet, a debt-based real estate investing platform, has announced the launch of a new fund that seeks to expand the ways investors can access real estate investments via its platform, according to a note from the company. The Peer Street Credit Opportunity, LP is said… Read More

August 19, 2020 @ 8:42 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based property finance platform LendInvest has introduced “Appetite Statements” for landlords seeking a pre-agreed financing offer for future projects. LendInvest explains that an Appetite Statement is a pre-agreed limit of what LendInvest would be willing to lend to the borrower based on defined parameters,… Read More

August 19, 2020 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tallinn-based EvoEstate has reportedly secured €140,000 in additional capital through a pre-seed extension. The Fintech firm has now closed its €320,000 pre-seed investment round. EvoEstate aims to offer an innovative investment platform that’s supported by Lithuanian startup Wise Guys, which is a Hong Kong-based stealth… Read More

August 18, 2020 @ 12:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

NextSeed, an online investment platform, has announced a partnership with Civitas Capital Group regarding real estate investment offerings. NextSeed started life as a funding portal offering small business debt securities under Reg CF open to all investors. Not too long ago, NextSeed became a FINRA… Read More

August 18, 2020 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hammock, a neobank that has been introduced specifically for landlords, has acquired £1 million through a seed funding round from Ascension Ventures and Fuel Ventures. The capital raised by Hammock should help the bank with its upcoming launch of its current accounts – which should… Read More

August 14, 2020 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kyle Sonlin, the founding partner at the Security Token Group and the CEO at Security Token Market (STM), notes that every month, the STM research group compiles the security token trading and data analysis report. Sonlin writes: “The headline this month in the security token… Read More

August 13, 2020 @ 9:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Habito, an online mortgage firm, has secured £35 million in capital through a Series C investment round. Habito provides several services that are focused on taking the pain out of buying a new home or property. The company’s services include its own mortgage products,… Read More

August 13, 2020 @ 8:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

ABN AMRO announced on Wednesday plans to discontinue Moneyou activities in the Netherlands and Germany, with the exception of the Moneyou mortgage activities. According to ABN AMRO, Moneyou started in 2001 as an online mortgage label, followed by online savings accounts in 2008. At the… Read More

August 12, 2020 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Dan Miller, alongside his brother Ben Miller, founded one of the first real estate crowdfunding platforms in the US. Fundrise was the very first online investment platform to leverage Regulation A (now referred to as Reg A+), to offer securities to investors based on property… Read More

August 11, 2020 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

UK-based property finance platform LendInvest has updated its Buy-to-Let product. The Fintech has boosted its maximum loan size for MUFB properties up to £1 million for 70% LTV, £1.5 million up to 65% LTV and will now accept up to £3 million up to 60% LTV,… Read More

August 10, 2020 @ 2:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Howsy, a UK-based rental marketplace platform, is set to close its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs with more than £2.3 million raised from nearly 600 Seedrs investors. The funding round was launched last originally seeking £250,000. Howsy also applied for the Future Fund. Founded… Read More

August 9, 2020 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ubitquity, the developer of a blockchain-enabled platform for real estate and title recordkeeping, has teamed up with Washington-based Rainier Title, which aims to offer the “highest levels” of real property title and escrow services. As mentioned on its official website, Ubitquity offers a simple user… Read More

August 7, 2020 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a digital property finance platform, has received the highest possible rating from a European ratings agency for the sixth year in a row, according to a note from the company. ARC Ratings is a regulated European credit rating agency registered with the European Securities… Read More

August 5, 2020 @ 3:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Roostify, a U.S.-based digital lending platform, announced on Wednesday the enhancement of its Credit Services product. Roostify reported that through this new integrated service, the platform’s customers can select tri-merge, single bureau, soft and hard credit pulls directly from the Roostify’s site. “Integrated credit is… Read More

August 5, 2020 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a mortgage finance Fintech, has funded a £10 million bridge loan on an LTC of 90% for a South London development. The property is in Abbey Wood, within the London borough of Greenwich – 11 minutes away from Canary Wharf. The company says it… Read More

August 4, 2020 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Max Crowdfund, a blockchain-powered real estate crowdfunding platform, has reported secured approval from the Financial Market Authority (FMA) in the Netherlands. Under development since 2017, Max Crowdfund explained that it allows registered investors to access high-quality real estate investment opportunities in a matter of minutes,… Read More