Real Estate

July 22, 2023 @ 3:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, the technology-enabled real estate marketplace that helps people buy and co-own a luxury second home, released its 2023 Second Home Attitude Report, in order “to better understand what’s motivating second home buyers.” Applied Research West (ARW), a “trusted” research firm, “conducted a quantitative survey… Read More

July 19, 2023 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Christian Faes, co-founder and former CEO of publicly traded Fintech LendInvest, has launched a new venture. Faes has announced F2 Finance, a Fintech entering the “Fix and Flip” marketplace in the US. The company is sizing up a market at $68 billion, starting with several… Read More

July 19, 2023 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest plc (AIM: LINV); which claims to be the UK’s leading platform for mortgages, is pleased to announce its audited results “for the year ended 31 March 2023.” Rod Lockhart, Chief Executive of LendInvest, commented: “I am pleased with the progress we have made over… Read More

July 17, 2023 @ 12:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK remains in a higher interest rate environment, with inflation remaining stubborn, the team at CrowdProperty noted. Recent headlines were centered around businesses (including some of the country’s biggest banks) being “challenged on profiteering in this market by dragging their feet on updating their… Read More

July 17, 2023 @ 10:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EstateGuru has partnered with Lemonway in order to bring the Pay by Bank online payment solution to the platform, allowing users to add funds to their accounts directly from their bank accounts. EstateGuru has shared instructions as to how it works. The firm reminds clients… Read More

July 15, 2023 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest (AIM: LINV), which claims to be the UK’s leading platform for mortgages, has today launched a new, “market-leading” Buy-to-Let range as it looks to back landlords in this challenging market. LendInvest is supporting landlords “to get back into the market with rates starting from… Read More

July 8, 2023 @ 3:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CrowdProperty revealed recently that it has now “funded more than £700m of property projects and the development of over 3,000 homes.” Having agreed £24m in June alone, the business has now “closed in excess of £400m of facilities to support the construction of residential and… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 11:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Demand for rental properties continues to rise across the UK, with more than four-million people renting privately. As landlords look to identify new opportunities in the rental market and provide high-quality homes, the team at Molo are pleased “to announce an expansion to their existing… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital is pleased to announce a development exit deal in partnership with Healdan, a property development and construction business based in Bedfordshire. The deal involves the financing of a barn conversion project, “consisting of six homes, in the idyllic location of Millbrook, Bedfordshire.” Under… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 5:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Palisades Group, an alternative asset manager in the global residential credit and real estate markets, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Julia Coronado as Senior Advisor. Dr. Coronado will join the company’s advisory board, “bringing her wealth of expertise and insights into the… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 5:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

In late June, PeerStreet filed for bankruptcy protection in federal courts. While not a complete surprise, the firm’s failure rattled industry insiders as PeerStreet has long been viewed as a respected player in the real estate crowdfunding sector. Launched in 2013 and serving accredited investors,… Read More

July 3, 2023 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest plc (AIM: LINV), which claims to be the UK’s leading platform for mortgages, has announced a £500 million investment “to fund part of its future mortgage originations for its Buy-to-Let and Residential Mortgage products from Chetwood Financial Limited.” This new funding will “further the… Read More

July 3, 2023 @ 5:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Shawbrook has announced the appointment of Sarah Woolf as the new Senior Regional Development Manager in its Real Estate team. Sarah originally joined Shawbrook in 2012 “as a Business Development Manager, and in 2016 took on the role of Head of Sales.” Sarah left Shawbrook… Read More

June 28, 2023 @ 6:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Once one of the most respected real estate investment platforms in the US, PeerStreet has now filed for bankruptcy. According to a corporate statement, PeerStreet aims to sell substantially all of its assets, including its mortgage loan assets, and tech platform. The company seeks to… Read More

June 21, 2023 @ 8:28 am By JD Alois  |  

The former National Relationship Director at Assetz Capital, Mark Davidson, has joined CrowdProperty as Head of Loan Management. CrowdProperty is a real estate crowdfunding platform that provides debt capital for property developments. Assetz Capital is a similar platform that provides property-secured finance for UK SMEs,… Read More

June 19, 2023 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the world of blockchain continues to evolve, innovative applications and new kinds of collaboration are “emerging to tackle various challenges.” Frac, a platform in the high-value fractional asset trading market, has adopted vechain’s propriety technologies “to increase security and add immutable authentication to their… Read More

June 19, 2023 @ 6:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SimpleNexus, an nCino (NASDAQ: NCNO) company and developer of the U.S. homeownership platform for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents and settlement agents, announced a new integration with Empower, Black Knight’s loan origination system (LOS). The bidirectional integration, “available to financial institutions including independent mortgage… Read More

June 16, 2023 @ 7:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

The commercial real estate (CRE) market is struggling a bit as the work-from-home (WFH) movement, combined with the flight of businesses away from certain markets that were once hot, has caused some observers to predict calamity at some point in the not-so-distant future. We have… Read More

June 15, 2023 @ 12:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Brian Dally, co-founder and CEO of Groundfloor, operates a unique online investment platform for real estate investors. By using the Reg A+ exemption, Groundfloor enables smaller investors to gain access to residential properties – a sector of the market that continues to experience robust… Read More

June 12, 2023 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To make efficient and accurate risk assessments, commercial property underwriters “need the right information, at the right time, available at their fingertips.” CAPE’s mission has been “to provide underwriters with that information via unique, AI-powered insights, accessible in ways that both support automation as well… Read More