Real Estate

December 7, 2019 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Property investment platform CrowdProperty has topped £20,000,000 in capital returned during 5 years of lending, according to an email from the company. CrowdProperty states that since platform launch, approximately £55 million has been lent which has helped to finance over £130 million of property and… Read More

December 6, 2019 @ 11:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday in a blog post, Landbay founder and CEO John Goodall announced that his property crowdfunding platform will no longer serve as a peer to peer lender as institutional money has taken over. Landbay said that a UK bank will now handle the current retail… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A real estate business that received the backing of Property Innovation (Pi) Labs, a leading Proptech VC, is raising equity capital through crowdfunding. Track, which serves as a property and fund manager for homeowners, is raising £250,000 (appr. $328,000) on Seedrs for 11% of company… Read More

December 4, 2019 @ 12:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Fronted, a new company that plans to make renting easier for people, is preparing to launch in 2020 with a Fintech product that has been designed to help renters finance their deposits. The company, called Fronted, has been established by Jamie Campbell, former commercial… Read More

December 3, 2019 @ 2:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

PeerStreet, a leading platform for investing in real estate backed loans, announced last week that more than $3 billion in loans have been transacted through its marketplace portal since its launch. The latest milestone comes just one month after PeerStreet secured $60 million through its… Read More

December 3, 2019 @ 11:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Property investment for the average person usually involves making investments in projects that have already been completed. However, there’s now an opportunity to invest in property projects before they’re actually completed. This has been made possible by leveraging blockchain technology. It can take several years… Read More

November 29, 2019 @ 12:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

France-based Virgil, a Fintech firm that supports millennial home-ownership, recently raised €2.1 million ($2.3 million) from Alven Capital, Kima Ventures, LocalGlobe, and several angel investors. The capital raised will help Virgil achieve its short-term goals, which include finalizing at least 100 transactions each month by… Read More

November 28, 2019 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, the Fintech marketplace for property finance, has promoted Andy Virgo from Business Development Manager to Head of Key Accounts for LendInvest. In this new role, he will be championing the day to day relationship management of LendInvest’s distribution network, including Mortgage Clubs and Networks. … Read More

November 26, 2019 @ 8:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Entera, a Proptech that allows investors to purchase residential properties, has raised $7.5 million in funding. Entera’s investment round was led by Bullpen Capital and Craft Ventures. ValueStream Ventures and Chris Heller, former CEO at Keller Williams and current Chief Real Estate Officer at OJO… Read More

November 21, 2019 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Groundbreaker, previously an investment crowdfunding platform and now a software solution for real estate investment firms, has raised $2 million in growth capital. The funding was led by Andrew Bluhm, of the family behind Rivers Casino, Walton Street Capital, and marquee Chicago properties. Groundbreaker, a… Read More

November 20, 2019 @ 7:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform EstateGuru and OberHaus, real estate agency operating across the Baltic region, have joined together to produce shared real estate market research and analysis with a specialized focus on the needs of the crowdfunding platform. A general and combined analysis of the… Read More

November 16, 2019 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

British Pearl, a property investment platform that promises to provide “hassle-free property investment” is seeking £800,000 on Seedrs. The offering is for a 3.38% equity stake at a pre-money valuation of £22.8 million.  As it stands today, 141 investors have committed £641,503 to the crowdfunded… Read More

November 13, 2019 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Online property finance platform LendInvest has announced the expansion of its services into Scotland. LendInvest will offer Buy-to-Let property financing as the “Scottish property market booms.” LendInvest states that recent research shows that property prices in Scotland have soared to an 11 year high, with… Read More

November 12, 2019 @ 3:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fundrise, a digital marketplace for real estate investments, is distributing an email touting platform returns. Fundrise started as a single property investment crowdfunding platform that has since migrated over to an unlisted REIT platform offering a diverse group of “eREITs” or funds targeting different sectors… Read More

November 11, 2019 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

CapitalRise has received the backing of Revolt Ventures, the VC portion of the multi-billion dollar real estate investment company Meyer Bergman. According to a note from CapitalRise, Revolut Ventures has provided £1 million in equity funding for the early stage Fintech. The investment from Revolut Ventures… Read More

November 10, 2019 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IMMO Investment Technologies recently announced that it had completed a €72 million (appr. $79.3 million) funding round, with €11.5 million (appr. $12.6 million) in equity from Talis Capital, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Tom Stafford & Rahul Mehta of DST Global, and Mato Peric. IMMO Investment is… Read More

November 6, 2019 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdStreet, a real estate crowdfunding platform, has raised $12 million in a Series C funding round from its “community of individual  investors and commercial real estate sponsors.” CrowdStreet leveraged its own platform to raise the growth capital. CrowdStreet also reported that it is on track… Read More

November 4, 2019 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Fundament Securities, the issuer of the first regulated Real Estate Security Token offer in Germany, will provide institutional-grade custody solution for its digital assets in a new partnership with DACS “Digital Asset Custody Solution” a digital asset lifecycle management business. Fundament Group is a Berlin-based end-to-end… Read More

November 1, 2019 @ 12:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fast-growing Fintech Landbay says October was a great month for the real estate peer to peer lending platform. Without providing any details, Landbay tweeted out the news. Earlier this year, Landbay reported that a “leading financial institution” had committed to funding £1 billion in buy… Read More

November 1, 2019 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Ethis has received regulatory approval to operate in Indonesia marking the third market this year where the platform may now provide online capital formation. Ethis received approval to provide peer to peer crowdfunding as authorized by the Financial Services Authority of Indonesia. Prior to this… Read More