Tagged: real estate

February 17, 2022 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The year has kicked off on a strong note in the United Kingdom’s housing market and the price of an average home continued to reach all-time highs, according to an update published by Blend Network, a specialist development finance lender. The Nationwide House Price Index… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 1:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry business partner – real estate developer SIB Group – has successfully finalized the apartment building project “Skvero namai” in the center of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. The real estate loan of €1 million (the total amount with interest rate €1,068 803) was repaid… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At specialist development finance lender, Blend Network, the team prides itself on being by their client’s side, assisting them with borrowing funds for their initiatives. Even at the heights of the COVID-19 crisis, the team reports that they continued lending and deploying capital into projects… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dignity Gold, LLC, the US-based digital security that is taking an innovative approach to using verified gold reserves to back its security token, has appointed Marina De Alba to its Advisory Board. Dignity Gold, a blockchain development firm using security tokens and a regulation-focused approach… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 9:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Northspyre, a financial tracking and project delivery automation platform for real estate developers, has reportedly acquired $25 million via a Series B round to further grow its business and expand its solution “to improve the development process within the multi-trillion dollar commercial real estate industry.”… Read More

February 10, 2022 @ 3:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Berenberg has introduced its first private debt real estate fund in collaboration with Universal Investment Luxembourg. Universal-Investment-Luxembourg S.A. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH, Frankfurt am Main. The firm explains that they are independent – because the parent company’s shareholder Montgu Private Equity… Read More

February 7, 2022 @ 8:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has reportedly joined a $31 million round in property tech firm OwnHome, which claims it can get thousands of first-time home buyers out of regular renting by leveraging a model, somewhat similar to Buy Now, Pay Later, which eliminates the requirement… Read More

February 6, 2022 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital transformation has worked its way through the bedrock of many industries, from Netflix’s transformation of cable and blockbuster video to Uber’s considerable influence over the ways we access transportation services. Meanwhile, the property market has remained “relatively immune” to such changes. However, Roxana Mohammadian-Molina,… Read More

February 3, 2022 @ 11:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Realux, which claimed to be a real estate crypto project, reportedly paid social media influencers to support the idea that the initiative might help with addressing the wealth inequality issue by democratizing the real estate industry. However, the Realux project founders and team appeared to… Read More

February 1, 2022 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Leaving the Coronavirus outbreak to one side, the BTL sector is in “good health,” according to an update from Landbay. The value of the private rented sector (PRS) in England, Wales and Scotland surged by 5.8% to £1.4 trillion during the past year, according to… Read More

January 31, 2022 @ 1:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fundrise reveals that during 2021, they had welcomed more new investors to their platform than during any other year in their 10 year-long history. Fundrise points out that not only is this a key milestone that they are quite proud of, but it also means… 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 @ 1:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Security Token Market (STM) has released a report titled, State of Security Tokens 2022 — Industry Overview. Peter Gaffney, the Head of Research from Security Token Advisors, notes that the “high-level” lifecycle of a security token includes the following: Asset Selection Offering Structuring… Read More

January 19, 2022 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s Blend Network, a specialist development finance lender, has responded to “growing demand for light refurbishment projects.” As mentioned in an update shared with CI, specialist development finance lender Blend Network has announced today the launch of a new Light Refurbishment Plus product range “specifically… 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 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