Real Estate

November 30, 2016 @ 3:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform RealtyShares announced on Wednesday it has appointed Bill Lanting as Vice President of Commercial Debt Originations. Lanting reportedly brings real estate financing experience to RealtyShares and was previously an executive with Radisson and Wyndham Hotels. Nav Athwal, RealtyShares Founder and CEO,… Read More

November 29, 2016 @ 1:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fundrise has announced that is Income eREIT is “almost sold out” with less than 10% of the $50 million cap available for investors.  The debt based real estate crowdfunding vehicle has recently declared a dividend of 11.25% through December 2016. Fundrise’s eREIT approach has replaced… Read More

November 29, 2016 @ 9:05 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Money360, a commercial real estate marketplace lending platform, announced today that it has provided a $10.5 million bridge loan for a fully occupied, single-tenant suburban office complex in the Southern California coastal community of Signal Hill, California. “This was an attractive investment for several reasons,”… Read More

November 22, 2016 @ 1:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mainstreet Student Living, U.S. registered broker-dealer focused on the health care sector and student housing opportunities, announced on Tuesday the launch of its CrowdStreet Regulation D offering. The company is seeking to raise $1.8 million for a new housing community located in Central, South Carolina…. Read More

November 22, 2016 @ 8:20 am By Jessica Pham  |  

eOriginal, Inc., a service for businesses that need to verify “secure, legally compliant and enforceable electronic asset documentation”, announced earlier this month that private equity firm LLR Partners has led investments in the company totaling $26.5 million.  The 20-year-old company will use the capital to expand its… Read More

November 17, 2016 @ 3:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform, PeerStreet, announced on Thursday it raised $15 million during a Series A funding round, which was led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, with additional participation from The Kaiser Family Foundation, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and Montage Ventures.  The portal revealed… Read More

November 15, 2016 @ 9:12 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Crowdfunding real estate platform Fundrise is spinning off  RSE Capital Partners, its real estate investment branch, into a stand-alone company, according to several news sources. The new standalone firm will continuation to focus on origination, underwriting, investment and management for the company’s eREIT platform. RSE currently collaborates with top brokers and… Read More

November 14, 2016 @ 10:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendingHome is a niche online lender that is focused on the mortgage market. In a relatively short period of time, LendingHome has gone from zero to well over $700 million in residential mortgages. The mortgage market is huge. FBR& Co. recently estimated that $1.9 trillion… Read More

November 11, 2016 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a leading online mortgage lender in the UK, has announced the speaker line-up for the inaugural Property Development Academy course, scheduled for today and tomorrow (November 11th & 12th).  LendInvest announced this new initiative this past fall as a way to help small developers… Read More

November 10, 2016 @ 7:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Property Partner, a UK Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform, Updates on Results of Secondary Market for Property Shares Property Partner, a crowdfunding platform for UK real estate, has said that £10 million of shares in property have been exchanged on their unique secondary marketplace. Stating “bricks… Read More

November 8, 2016 @ 10:19 am By Erin Hobey  |  

 PROSPI, a new shared property investment platform launched by Manchester-based property expert McCafferty Asset Management, seeks  to enable investors with as little as £500 to take a proportionate holding alongside other stakeholders in specific, fully-tenanted residential properties managed by McCafferty’s team of experts. Investors will benefit from predictable… Read More

November 7, 2016 @ 10:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, RealtyShares announced several developers have returned to its real estate crowdfunding platform for additional projects. The website confirmed that Chris Wooten of Own Home, LLC, which funded his second residential acquisition in Nashville, Tennessee, and raised $398,000 from investors on the RealtyShares platform in October. Wooten… Read More

November 4, 2016 @ 4:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

SoFi, one of the largest online lenders in the US, announced this week the launch of its new program dedicated to helping homeowners pay off their student debt faster. The platform new offering, which is called the Student Loan Payoff ReFi, allows homeowners to have the… Read More

November 4, 2016 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Independent ratings agency 4thWay is out with an interesting report on the peer to peer property lending market in the UK.  This sector of alternative finance has been very popular due to the asset class and the solid returns. Even in light of Brexit turmoil,… Read More

November 3, 2016 @ 11:04 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Arbor Commercial Mortgage, a leader involved in many facets of the real estate industry, announced the public launch of its new platform, ArborCrowd.  The new real estate crowdfunding platform aims to bring vetted exclusive commercial real estate investment opportunities to accredited investors. By leveraging recent legislative changes, ArborCrowd seeks… Read More

November 3, 2016 @ 10:12 am By JD Alois  |  

AdaPia d”Errico, a long-time Patch of Land executive, has departed the real estate crowdfunding platform. In a note to stakeholders, Patch of Land CEO Paul Deitch stated; “It is with mixed emotions that we are announcing the departure of AdaPia d’Errico, Patch of Land’s Chief… Read More

October 28, 2016 @ 1:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

RealtyShares announced last week it is now offering prefunded deals on its real estate crowdfunding platform. The website revealed that these deals are beneficial to investors because they reduce time to curated accrual deals. Director of Investor Relations at RealtyShares, Amy Kirsch, stated: “RealtyShares recently closed… Read More

October 27, 2016 @ 8:16 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  Pittsburgh-based Small Change was approved as a Reg CF funding portal by FINRA, an approval the platform believes to be a first for a real estate funding portal.  Small Change is a real estate crowdfunding platform launched by urban evangelist Eve Picker targeting “transformational” real estate projects by connecting developers with investors. How?… Read More

October 26, 2016 @ 11:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Switzerland-based equity crowdfunding platform Bee Invested announced the launch of its new campaign for a real estate project located in Luxembourg. The website stated the offering is designed to simplify investments by connecting developers and investors. It also claimed is is the first… Read More

October 26, 2016 @ 9:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Commercial real estate marketplace lending platform Money360 announced on Tuesday it has provided a $2,450,000 bridge for a 120-unit low-rise multifamily property in Kansas City, Missouri. This new loan was provided to a commercial property owner to pay off a maturing first mortgage with detailed… Read More