March 18, 2019 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer-to-peer property lender CrowdProperty has launched an equity crowdfunding offer on Seedrs. The campaign has quickly topped the minimum target of £600,000 for a 3.68% equity stake in the platform. CrowdProperty has a pre-money valuation of £15.7 million. In 2017, CrowdProperty listed a pre-Series A… Read More

March 12, 2019 @ 5:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Highly rated real estate investment platform PeerStreet has hired two new executives with extensive experience in the financial services and real estate sectors. PeerStreet reports that Ellen Coleman has joined the platform as Executive Vice President of Finance.  Additionally, Bob Brown has been hired as… Read More

March 11, 2019 @ 2:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform Groundfloor announced last week it has formed a new partnership with Dwolla, Inc. to make payments more efficient for borrowers and investors. According to Groundfloor, Dwolla’s white label platform will now help the funding platform’s users initiate the transfer of money to their… Read More

March 11, 2019 @ 8:14 am By JD Alois  |  

CapitalRise, a property crowdfunding platform, is raising growth capital on Seedrs. The just recently launched campaign has quickly topped its initial goal of raise £1.5 million for 8.57% equity in the company. Today, 307 individual investors have participated in the offer that has a pre-money… Read More

March 7, 2019 @ 1:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Commercial real estate crowdfunding platform ArborCrowd announced on Thursday the launch of its new offering that allows investors to acquire equity interests in the Sioux Falls Multifamily Portfolio, a collection of class-B apartment communities located in Sioux Falls, S.D. According to ArborCrowd, the properties exhibit… Read More

March 6, 2019 @ 8:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Alto, a technology platform for investors to add alternative assets to IRAs,  announced on Wednesday it secured $2.8 million through its seed round in order to expand its offering and integrate additional investment platform partners. The new funding brings Alto’s total funding raised to $3.8… Read More

March 5, 2019 @ 4:37 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Lyttelton, New Zealand based company, Collett’s Corner, has secured its NZ$300,000 minimum goal during its PledgeMe equity crowdfunding campaign.  At this writing, over NZ$355,700 has been raised by more than 190 investors for the community-minded property development. The campaign aims to raise NZ$2 million for 80%… Read More

March 4, 2019 @ 12:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Peer to peer property lender CrowdProperty announced on Monday the launch of its new autoinvest product, which is supposed to help investors diversify quickly and easily without a platform or financial advisor fees. According to CrowdProperty: “CrowdProperty AutoInvest is a stress-free way to invest money across… Read More

March 4, 2019 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding is going through a bit of a transition right now. Some platforms that garnered early traction have dimmed or disappeared while others have emerged to lead the charge as they execute on their chosen business model. ArborCrowd is a platform that has… Read More

March 2, 2019 @ 2:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer property lender EstateGuru says it has recently made two “significant’ hires for their executive team. EstateGuru says they have appointed the former head of retail credit risk at Coop, Andres Luts, to fill the position of Baltic Risk Manager. Additionally, Mihkel Roosme,… Read More

March 1, 2019 @ 7:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Securrency and Vertalo have signed an agreement to tokenize $260 million in fixed income-generating real estate assets. The new agreement was shared in a blog post yesterday but Securrency and Vertalo announced their partnership in 2018. Vertalo is a digital asset management platform that provides… Read More

February 28, 2019 @ 8:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Online property lender LendInvest has formed a new partnership with buy-to-let mortgage distributor TBMC to offer its loans through the specialist packager’s broker panel.a According to the TBMC website, the company has operated in the buy-to-let and commercial mortgage markets since 1989. They are specialists… Read More

February 27, 2019 @ 10:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

CrowdStreet, an online marketplace for direct equity investment in commercial real estate (CRE), announced on Wednesday the launch of its investor-friendly approach to investing qualified retirement account funds into commercial real estate offerings. According to CrowdStreet, the new option makes it easier than ever for… Read More

February 26, 2019 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdProperty, a UK based peer to peer lender, is reporting a couple of milestones. Following the funding of the 70th project, CrowdProperty says it has now funded 500 UK homes worth more than £80 million. The P2P lender says over £30 million has been lent… Read More

February 25, 2019 @ 3:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Banco BTG Pactual, an investment bank based in Sao Paolo, Brazil, is going crypto. More specifically, the bank is issuing a security token based on real estate assets. BTG Pactual is no small operation. In fact, total assets are pegged at over R$270 billion (USD $70+… Read More

February 25, 2019 @ 2:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform RealtyMogul announced on Monday it has sold a machine learning and artificial intelligence loan underwriting tool to Hunt Real Estate Capital. According to RealtyMogul, Hunt Real Estate Capital plans to deploy the tool across its commercial real estate lending business. While sharing details… Read More

February 25, 2019 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

PeerStreet has been recognized as one of the 2019 Best Places to Work in Financial Technology (Fintech). The awards program is a project of SourceMedia and Best Companies Group. The relatively young survey seeks to identify and highlight the best employers in Fintech. Previously, PeerStreet received… Read More

February 21, 2019 @ 10:21 am By Therese Torris  |  

Launched last quarter, Anaxago Capital, the asset management sister of French equity crowdfunding platform Anaxago, announces its first investment fund. FCPR ANAXAGO SOCIETY ONE is a real estate development fund dedicate to funding construction and renovation projects. Anaxago Capital aims to raise €30 million to… Read More

February 18, 2019 @ 8:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Today the direct real estate investment platform Groundfloor launched an online public offering enabling any Groundfloor account holder to purchase stock directly from the company. The platform indicated that the online public offering aims to “level the cap table” so members of the public can own… Read More

February 18, 2019 @ 9:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Groundfloor, a direct real estate investment platform, has launched an online public offering enabling any Groundfloor account holder to purchase stock directly from the company. The platform indicated that the online public offering aims to “level the cap table” so members of the public can… Read More