Tagged: real estate

January 16, 2025 @ 1:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

CertifID, a provider of wire fraud protection for the real estate industry, announced on Jan. 14 that it acquired Paymints.io, a solution that enables digital money transfers by title companies, law firms, and real estate brokerages. According to the FBI, $1.9 billion in funds have been stolen… Read More

January 8, 2025 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Buffalo, New York, will be the hottest major property / real estate market in 2025, according to a new analysis by Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG), the first time a market has held the title in back-to-back years. Real estate firm Zillow noted in its… Read More

January 7, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs and structured real estate lender, REL Finance, have completed a £16.6m co-loan to JMK Group, a family-run hospitality business. JMK’s story began when an entrepreneur, John Kajani, made “a decision to move from textiles to the hospitality… Read More

December 28, 2024 @ 2:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, the technology-enabled real estate marketplace that helps people buy, co-own, and sell a luxury vacation home, released its fourth annual Top Vacation Home Markets Report, identifying the “leading” luxury vacation home markets for 2024. The report reveals the top 20 counties across the United… Read More

December 27, 2024 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Banking Group has shared the Halifax UK housing / property market review and outlook for real estate in 2025. Here are the key takeaways from the extensive research report on the United Kingdom‘s property market: UK housing market beat expectations in 2024, with recovery… Read More

December 26, 2024 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry’s business partner, real estate developer SIB Group, has reportedly repaid investors a €500 000 loan (real estate project “Vytenio55 II”) and paid their investors €102,368 in interest. PeerBerry also mentioned in another recent update that it is processing the last repayment of war-affected loans…. Read More

December 22, 2024 @ 4:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Erratic and dramatic mortgage rate movements that heavily influenced the housing market in 2024 are destined to “play a major role” in the coming year, according to real estate firm Zillow‘s (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) latest market report. Zillow Chief Economist Skylar Olsen said: “There’s… Read More

December 19, 2024 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Macquarie Real Estate Partners (MREP), a real estate fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management’s Real Estate division (MAM), announced it has invested in IDA, an Australian specialist real estate private credit and investment manager. The investment by MREP will provide funding to support the growth… Read More

December 3, 2024 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Forum Partners, a global real estate investment and asset management firm, and its portfolio company TSCG, announced the launch of TSCG Credit Opportunities I, LLC, a private credit fund seeking to raise up to $25 million from accredited investors, with the option to “increase the… Read More

November 28, 2024 @ 11:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BME, a SIX Company, announced its investment in OpenBrick, a digital platform for the issuance, management, trading, and settlement of tokenized securities linked to real estate projects. Six Group operates the Swiss Stock Exchange. Grupo Lar, Renta 4 Banco, and ioBuilders established the firm, which welcomes BME, Garrigues, and Teras Capital as partners. OpenBrick… Read More

November 25, 2024 @ 10:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equito App creators, who are carrying out a crowdfunding campaign via Crowdcube, have noted that traditional real estate investing is becoming increasingly inaccessible for the average investor. Equito explained that it intends to change that by enabling anyone to invest in real estate properties starting… Read More

November 7, 2024 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aventus Home is part of Aventus Group’s international business. Aventus Homes’ primary activities reportedly include the following: constructing, selling, and renting luxury villas in one of the most prestigious European places in Spain – Marbella. The value of Aventus Group’s properties in Spain currently is… Read More

November 4, 2024 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

abrdn Investments has reportedly become the latest ETF Issuer at SIX Swiss Exchange. As noted in the update shared this month, SIX welcomes abrdn Investments as its latest issuer of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) with their new real estate product. According to the announcement, this addition… Read More

October 29, 2024 @ 10:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Seneschal, the specialist private equity and real estate / real assets fund administrator, has selected LemonEdge, the fund accounting solution for private markets funds, to build its back-office accounting operations to deliver the best services to its fund manager clients at scale. ‍Founded in 2021… Read More

October 27, 2024 @ 7:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

L&G has bolstered its private markets platform with an equity stake in Taurus and commits up to $200m to high growth real estate sectors in the US. This partnership reportedly enhances L&G’s Private Markets capabilities in the region, while also addressing investor demand for real… Read More

October 24, 2024 @ 8:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

abrdn plc, a global investment company, announced earlier this month the expansion of its real estate investment business in Japan via its subsidiary, abrdn Japan Limited. This latest update comes as abrdn commences a new investment mandate to manage a residential portfolio in Japan. The… Read More

October 23, 2024 @ 9:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Almost half of all US renter households are being “burdened” by excessive rent costs, with Gen Z renters shouldering the “heaviest load,” a new analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community Survey (ACS) by real estate firm Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) and… Read More

October 21, 2024 @ 3:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Splitero, the financial technology company that provides homeowners better options to access their home equity, announced today that it has a $300 million investment from funds managed by Antarctica Capital. This announcement comes at a time of “record” home equity. U.S. homeowners collectively hold $11.5… Read More

September 28, 2024 @ 11:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry’s business partner, real estate developer SIB Group, repaid investors a EUR 1 million loan (real estate project “Krokuvos”) and paid our investors EUR 221 135 in interest. PeerBerry has acknowledged those “contributing to the development of projects developed by their partners.” If you are… Read More

September 22, 2024 @ 7:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The monthly cost of homeownership may be more attainable than people think, according to a new report from real estate firm Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG). But, it depends on where they live, the report from real estate company Zillow has revealed. According to a… Read More