Tagged: real estate

January 2, 2021 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Levent Künzi, Co-founder and CEO of Properti, a technology-driven real estate firm focused on modernizing residential real estate in Europe, has shared the company’s key milestones from last year in an annual review 2020 update. Künzi confirmed that Properti handled CHF 69 million (appr. $77.52… Read More

December 30, 2020 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Blend Network, an online peer to peer (P2P) property lending platform, notes in its latest monthly market pulse report that one of the very few, seemingly positive headlines of this year is Britain becoming the first country to license a “fully tested”… Read More

December 27, 2020 @ 11:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

    UK property crowdfunding platform Assetz Exchange is set to close its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs with nearly £300,000 raised from more than 300 Seedrs investors. Assetz is now offering 5.25% in equity at a £5 million pre-money valuation through the funding round,  As… Read More

December 26, 2020 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CapitalRise, an online platform for prime property lending and investing, confirmed that it has issued £92 million in loans and is now on track to hit its £100 million lending milestone at some point early next year. This, after seeing a significant increase in demand… Read More

December 21, 2020 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A Dubai-based real estate-focused Fintech firm is planning to offer local investors an opportunity to invest in the property market with as little as 2,000 AED (appr. $544). UAE-headquartered Stake, which is supported by a Saudi national, is currently based in the Fintech Hive which… Read More

December 15, 2020 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fraxtor Private Limited, a company that operates an online real estate co-investment platform, has reportedly acquired over S$9 million (appr. $6.74 million) on its platform from its community of Accredited Investors (AIs), despite the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a release, the… Read More

December 15, 2020 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Security Token Group (STG), a team of professionals focused on re-inventing capital markets with blockchain-enabled security tokens, have published their very first Security Token Market Real Estate Report. The security token market, as tracked on stomarket.com, hosts live-trading data from 26 different security token… Read More

December 10, 2020 @ 11:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Xspaced, a U.S.-fintech startup that specializes in rental payments, announced on Thursday the launch of its new feature, FlexRent. According to Xspaced, FlexRent allows tenants to split their rent payments into smaller payments over the month to align their monthly rent with their income… Read More

December 6, 2020 @ 10:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Just a little over a year after raising £690,453 through its previous Seedrs campaign, UK property crowdfunding platform Assetz Exchange has returned to the investment platform and has already surpassed its initial £250,000 funding target. As previously reported, Assetz Exchange describes itself to be… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Proptee, a new property investment platform, is planning to launch operations in the UK in January 2021. The platform will aim to connect potential investors with buy-to-let landlords. Proptee will let landlords list various properties on its platform. Investors will be able to acquire shares… Read More

November 20, 2020 @ 3:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wemlo, a U.S.-based fintech that’s focused on mortgage loan processing, announced on Friday the launch of its new AI technology called Athena. According to Wemlo, Athena is a virtual assistant AI developed to empower and improve loan processing by identifying discrepancies within a mortgage loan… Read More

November 19, 2020 @ 8:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

NestEgg, a U.S.-based residential rental property management startup, announced on Wednesday not only did it raise $7 million through its Series A investment round, but it also is planning to launch an interest-free payment service.  Founded in 2017, NestEgg describes itself as an all-in-one platform… Read More

November 16, 2020 @ 11:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Nada, a U.S.-based real estate technology startup,  has successfully secured nearly $455,000 in funding through its funding round on Republic. The round, which comes just after the company’s seed investment, was launched last month originally seeking a minimum of $25,000 with a max of… Read More

November 12, 2020 @ 4:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

AlphaFlow, an online investment platform for real estate assets,  announced on Thursday it secured $10 million through Series A funding round, which was led by Saluda Grade Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, 10X Capital, Resolute Ventures, Upside Partnership, Vishal Garg (CEO of Better Mortgage),… Read More

November 11, 2020 @ 9:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK banking group NatWest announced on Tuesday the launch of its new product Green Mortgages. According to NatWest, the product offers a “preferential interest rate” to new or existing customers who are purchasing energy-efficient properties. The banking group explained: “The Green Mortgage offers a discounted… Read More

November 11, 2020 @ 8:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

U.S.-based homeownership platform Better.com announced on Wednesday it secured $200 million through its Series D funding round, which was led by L Catterton with participation from Activant Capital, Ally Financial, American Express Ventures, Ping An Global Voyager Fund, and 9Yards Capital. The latest funding round… Read More

October 30, 2020 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Roxana Mohammadian-Molina, the Chief Strategy Officer at Blend Network, an online peer to peer (P2P) property lending platform. Roxana talked about how the UK real estate market is performing. She also discussed how her company has managed to maintain operations during… Read More

October 29, 2020 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Derek Boirun, CEO and co-founder at Realio, a blockchain-enabled issuer, asset manager and technology provider, says that the idea behind his company (Realio) came to him when he realized that blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) might be a great tool to help with establishing… Read More

October 28, 2020 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kyle Sonlin, the founding partner at the Security Token Group and the CEO at Security Token Market (STM), notes that each month he helps his research team with compiling the security token trading and data analysis report.  Sonlin reveals that this month in the security… Read More

October 27, 2020 @ 10:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lendesk, a Canada-based mortgage fintech, announced on Tuesday it has acquired mortgage origination platform Finmo Financial Technologies. According to Lendesk, Finmo helps mortgage professionals offer their clients a truly digital experience. “Finmo’s proprietary Smart Docs algorithms allow brokers to automatically request necessary documents from their… Read More