Real Estate

January 24, 2022 @ 10:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Leading property finance platform LendInvest (LSE: LINV) has acheived £2 billion in assets under management (AUM). LendInvest noted that had reached £1 billion of AUM in 2019 – ten years from its launch. This newest mileston is indicative of platform growth. LendInvest said that strong… Read More

January 24, 2022 @ 4:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

  As CI has recently covered, Jacksonville, Florida is an emerging Fintech hub in the US. While Florida has boomed in the past couple of years due to its good governance and business/startup-friendly policies, Jacksonville has managed to attract a good number of financial services… Read More

January 24, 2022 @ 11:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Jacksonville, Florida is one of the hottest Fintech markets in the US. A combination of low taxes, great weather, and a business-friendly government has helped Jacksonville to generate over 62,000 in Fintech jobs. In recognition of this ongoing phenomenon, Groundfloor, a real estate crowdfunding platform,… Read More

January 23, 2022 @ 6:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Mark Fiebig, Founder at The Closing Docs, a firm offering automated income verification for property managers and lenders. As explained by the company’s management, The Closing Docs provides an automated income verification tool that positions property managers and lenders to “make… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 9:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A European logistics real estate fund managed by the Singapore-regulated Elite Partners Capital has completed a €520-million sale of its entire portfolio to a fund managed by the US private equity firm Blackstone Group. Launched in early 2020, Elite Logistics Fund I is a two-year,… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 11:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fintech firm Milo this week announced its new crypto mortgage, a move it believes will make it easier for cryptocurrency investors to deploy their digital assets in the purchase of US real estate. They expect it to become available in the coming weeks. Milo clients will… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 11:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest, a leading digital financing platform for the UK market, has commented on the importance of their plans to adopt better lending technology in 2022. The team has looked ahead to their business plans this year with their VP of Technology, Peter Wallis. Peter Wallis… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 4:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coldwell Banker, a global real estate firm, has partnered with Coinweb to tokenize real estate, first in Thailand. Coldwell Banker represents a network of property firms across 3,000 offices in 49 countries and territories. The collaboration is said to expect Coinweb to develop and support… Read More

January 14, 2022 @ 1:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK’s Blend Network, a specialist development finance lender, notes that they’ve recently been quite vocal about why development finance lenders “need to show more commitment towards Net Zero and sustainable house building.” Blend Network has explained why and how specialist lenders like… Read More

January 13, 2022 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fiduciam, the institutionally-funded short-term lender to housebuilders and entrepreneurs, is planning an expansion of its operations in Scotland for 2022. A new Scottish team has been formed with a nationwide lending appetite and a target to achieve £55 million of lending this year. Fiduciam is… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

nHouse, a young “disruptive” housing firm providing various designs, has secured 121% (£121,870) of its £100,000 target from 245 investors (at the time of writing) through a crowdfunding campaign carried out via Seedrs with 29 days left in the sale. nHouse explains that it makes… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 2:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest, a leading digital financing platform for the UK market, has commented on updates related to delivering complex bridging and development deals in 2022 (and the landscape in general). Tom Madden, Director of LendInvest‘s Structured Property Finance team, has taken a look back on 2021… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 2:00 am By JD Alois  |  

BrikkApp, a European online real estate investment platform, is aggregating over 200 real estate investment crowdfunding platforms, according to a statement from the company. The new marketplace aims to simplify the process of matching money with investment opportunities around the world. BrikkApp notes that it… Read More

January 9, 2022 @ 3:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Security Token Market (STM) has published their Real Estate Report for December 2021. STM writes in a blog post that December’s edition of the real estate report has an updated structure and they’ve also shared their analysis. Previously, this report primarily focused… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 6:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Railsbank APAC Marketing Manager Darren Thang has taken a look at how property buyers are about to get an enhanced experience. Thang writes in a blog post that increasingly, nonbank firms are “warming to the idea of embedded finance experiences, offering banking-like services that provide… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK’s Blend Network, a specialist development finance lender, notes that as 2022 gets underway, they’ve reflected on the “strength” and “resilience” of the UK property market. With property prices and rents surging to double digit growth in some areas of the UK,… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 12:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Landbay, the buy-to-let mortgage market that leverages the latest Fintech and claims to be one of the fastest-growing tech firm in Europe, notes that 2021 started in the middle of a lockdown and at that time, no one would have “wanted to bet on prospects… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Findingaplace, which claims that it’s “revolutionizing” the rental search experience, removing the need to “even search at all,” has secured 88% (£221,870) of its £250,001 target from 225 investors (at the time of writing) via Seedrs with 5 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign. Here… Read More

December 31, 2021 @ 3:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Housing markets in Australia began to cool off towards the end of 2021. Updated regulations for banking institutions in the country should “increase the cost of, and reduce the access to financing,” according to an update from Judo Bank. This should see house prices in… Read More

December 31, 2021 @ 9:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Many more homeowners are now looking for all-digital solutions that are affordable and a lot more accessible. Digitalization and the platform concept are now finding their way into the real estate sector, which is not only an innovative breakthrough but has also become essential. That’s… Read More