Real Estate

September 25, 2017 @ 7:59 am By JD Alois  |  

  UOWN is a new online property crowdfunding platform that is offering potential annual returns starting from 6%. The company promotes “an innovative business model” which provides access to previously off-market “proven performer” rental properties. UOWN, based in Leeds, is the creation of brothers Shaan,… Read More

September 20, 2017 @ 4:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Impact Housing REIT, LLC (ImpactHousing.com), an apartment real estate investment trust has announced its Reg A+ offering to raise up to $35 million has been qualified by the SEC. Backed by crowdfunding platform CrowdStreet‘s technology, the offer is now open to investors – both accredited… Read More

September 20, 2017 @ 10:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform PeerStreet announced on Tuesday it was named one of the Top Ten Startups to Work For in Los Angeles. The list was created by Zippia, an online startup career platform. The funding portal revealed in a blog post: “We were proud to be… Read More

September 20, 2017 @ 8:22 am By JD Alois  |  

The House Crowd, a UK property crowdfunding platform, is reporting “record levels of investor confidence”. According to the platform, the House Crowd is experiencing high demand for its property-backed peer-to-peer lending products, with over 1,270 people having invested in one. The House Crowd states that… Read More

September 20, 2017 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

AlphaFlow, an alternative investment platform for real estate, has closed on a $4.1 million seed round funding, led by Resolute Ventures and Point72 Ventures, the venture capital arm of Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management. Additional investors in the round included Upside Partnership, Social Capital, Y… Read More

September 19, 2017 @ 12:24 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Propy, the global property store and decentralized title registry, has raised $15 million from 6,597 participants in its PRO token sale to put the international real estate market on the blockchain. Prior to the start of the public sale, Propy and CEO Natalia Karayaneva secured $2 million in… Read More

September 18, 2017 @ 8:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Property Moose, a property focused crowdfunding platform, has secured £850,000 of equity funding from RCP Holdings, a Guernsey-based Asset Management firm. DFI Financial Services Limited, DBA as Property Moose, has now raised more than £2 million since its inception in 2013. Several years ago, Property… Read More

September 16, 2017 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

DiversyFund, a real estate crowdfunding marketplace, is selling pre-IPO shares in a Series A crowdfunding round through a Reg D 506(c) offering. DiversyFund stated; “We are excited to become a customer-owned company, and our goal is to pursue an IPO in the next 2-4 years…. Read More

September 15, 2017 @ 12:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

RealtyShares announced on Thursday it raised $28 million during its Series C funding round, which included participation from Cross Creek Advisors, Danhua Capital, Barry Sternlicht (Founder of Starwood Capital and Starwood Resorts) and Bow Capital, along with prior investors Union Square Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, and… Read More

September 15, 2017 @ 11:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Sharestates, an online real estate crowdfunding marketplace, has announced that Nicole Joseph has joined the executive team as the new Chief Operating Officer. Joseph will partner with the company’s CEO, Allen Shayanfekr, to run operations and compliance while broadening infrastructure to support the firm’s continuous… Read More

September 15, 2017 @ 2:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Following the peer to peer lenders most successful month in August, the EstateGuru’s loan volume has now exceeded €30 million. EstateGuru is an Estonia-based online marketplace for secured property loans. According to information provided by EstateGuru, in August the platform’s originations was nearly €4 million…. Read More

September 14, 2017 @ 12:24 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

stREITwise has launched a Regulation A+ IPO for its online commission-free real estate investment with direct investment on its own website. The company’s first Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) – 1st stREIT Office – seeks to provide a diversified portfolio of institutional-quality office buildings with… Read More

September 12, 2017 @ 8:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate lending marketplace Groundfloor announced on Tuesday it has entered into a whole loan purchase relationship with Direct Access Capital (DAC), a specialty finance company focused on providing liquidity to non-bank lenders of short term residential backed business loans. According to the online lender, this… Read More

September 11, 2017 @ 1:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, real estate crowdfunding platform Small Change announced the Pittsburgh Technology Council has named it a Tech 50 Awards Finalist in the “Start-Up of the Year” Category. Small Change revealed that the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s annual Tech 50 Awards recognize southwestern Pennsylvania’s most successful, innovative, and… Read More

September 9, 2017 @ 1:16 pm By Xu Gao  |  

Online Marketplace Lenders Banned from Lending to College Students in China On September 6th, Zhao Jianjun, deputy director of the Department of Finance at Ministry of Education, announced at a press conference that online marketplace lenders are banned from lending to college students in China…. Read More

September 7, 2017 @ 11:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Homegrown, launched its residential property investment platform focusing solely on the construction of new homes. The FCA-authorized platform will now provide retail investors with access quality residential development projects alongside institutional investors and is targeting average net returns of 15% per annum. The minimum… Read More

September 1, 2017 @ 3:46 pm By AdaPia d'Errico  |  

Modern Portfolio Theory is based on the idea that certain types of investment risk can be mitigated through a strategic pattern of diversification and asset allocation. Diversification is important because it spreads risk across multiple types of investments within a single portfolio. By diversifying into… Read More

September 1, 2017 @ 10:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, online real estate transaction marketplace Ten-X Commercial announced it has formed a partnership with real estate crowdfunding platform Money360. The company revealed this new partnership will expand the investor pool for commercial properties listed on its platform by giving prospective buyers assurance they will… Read More

August 31, 2017 @ 3:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform CrowdStreet has announced its first offer that is available to both accredited and non-accredited investors. CrowdStreet enables commercial real estate firms to efficiently and cost-effectively attract and manage investors using their online channel. The offering on CrowdStreet is being made available through… Read More

August 30, 2017 @ 11:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Fundrise, the very first real estate crowdfunding platform in the US, has re-opened its Income eREIT to investors. The Income eREIT was one of the first two eREITs Fundrise ever issued. Fundrise pretty much launched the real estate crowdfunding sector when it utilized old Regulation… Read More