Real Estate

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

July 30, 2020 @ 9:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

RealPage, Inc. (NASDAQ: RP), a global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, announced on Thursday it has launched online vendor payments, which are automating the entire vendor payment process from procurement to purchase order, invoice processing, and payment. According to… Read More

July 28, 2020 @ 8:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over a year after raising £2,395,250 through its first Seedrs campaign, property crowdfunding platform CapitalRise has returned to the equity crowdfunding platform and has successfully raised nearly £1.7 million from more than 300 Seedrs investors so far. The funding round’s co-investor is the… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 9:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

ReitBZ, a leveraged security token backed by real estate issued by BTG Pactual, has announced the distribution of its first dividend. According to ReitBZ, the digital asset will be the first of its kind to distribute profits to investors. Everything will be handled via blockchain-based… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 3:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Flat.mx, a Mexico-based prop tech startup, has reportedly secured $25 million in debt financing from Arc Labs. Founded in 2019, Flat.mx claims it is flipping the way homes are sold in Mexico. “With a deep layer of technology and data, Flat simplifies the painful process… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Landbay. a digital buy-to-let finance platform, has announced a partnership with an unnamed UK bank. According to a note from Landbay, the deposit-taking bank will fund mortgages originated by Landbay and then hold them on their balance sheet. Landbay states that this arrangement complements its… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 8:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokeny Solutions, a digital asset platform facilitating primary issuance and management of security tokens, has partnered with Invenium Capital Partners to provide private security data. Invenium is described as a “Fintech SaaS” company with offices in New York City and Northville, Michigan. Founded in 2017,… Read More

July 24, 2020 @ 6:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Selina Finance, an online lender that provides secured home equity loans at competitive rates, has secured £42 million in capital through a Series A funding round. The funding reportedly includes £12 million in equity from Picus Capital and Global Founders Capital and £30 million… Read More

July 23, 2020 @ 10:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Australian Digital bank 86 400 has signed a strategic partnership with Australian Finance Group Ltd  (AFG), to expand its home loan broker distribution network, according to a company release. 86 400 states that with AFG on board, one in three mortgage brokers in Australia now… Read More

July 23, 2020 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate investment marketplace zinsbaustein.de has listed the largest ever project on the platform. The offering is for the Cube River 342 in Düsseldorf, Germany that is seeking €4.3 million. This is the fourth offering from the developer Cube Real Estate GmbH. Investors may invest… Read More

July 22, 2020 @ 10:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Property finance marketplace LendInvest has launched a new Structured Property Finance team to better serve borrowers and brokers in managing complex property finance deals. According to a note from LendInvest, the new team will be headed up by Tom Madden, Sales Director who will work… Read More