Tagged: real estate

July 9, 2015 @ 11:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

While making the final preparations for its launch, upcoming UK real estate investment platform, BrickVest, announced it has received backing from Rocket Internet’s Global Founders Capital (GFC). According to TechCrunch, GFC has invested in a startup before the platform open its investment doors. Although BrickVest nor GFC are disclosing… Read More

July 7, 2015 @ 12:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Singapore based real estate crowdfunding platform CoAssets will publicly trade shares on NSX, an Australian stock exchange. This comes as CoAssets announces expanding its platform into Australia.  According to a report from the company, CoAssets, the first crowdfunding site for real estate projects in Southeast Asia, will… Read More

July 1, 2015 @ 7:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday Keystone announced its three-year funding agreement with Aldermore Bank, had ended. Today it has formed a partnership with Landbay to lend and estimated £200 million through Keystone in 2016. This is significant boost for Landbay, a company that has been in operation a bit over… Read More

June 30, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  UK-based Property Partner, the residential real estate crowdfunding investment platform, allows people to invest in individual residential properties at the click of a button. Investors receive a monthly rental income and benefit from any capital growth, in direct proportion to their ownership.  Identifying locations and individual properties that are likely to be… Read More

June 29, 2015 @ 10:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

ENDVEST, a real estate investment and crowdfunding platform, officially launched earlier this month. The founding partners, are described as a New York-based team with a combined eight decades of real estate experience, aim to revolutionize the process of global real estate investment. By pairing developers… Read More

June 28, 2015 @ 7:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender CrowdProperty has passed its first £1 million milestone. The property lender launched late in 2014 and has set an ambitious goal of facilitating £20 million in loans its first year in operation. CrowdProperty stated the million mark was hurdled as its… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 10:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fundrise, a trailblazer in the real estate crowdfunding space, is looking to expand and China is high on the list.  It is a natural step for the platform as the largest investor in Fundrise is Renren, a publicly traded social media platform based in Beijing…. Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 5:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform Realty Mogul has received $250 million in direct commitments from large institutional investors, according to a company statement.  The investors were not identified but described as institutions that “have sizable balance sheets and want to work with a leader in the… Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 9:44 am By JD Alois  |  

  Seedrs has become a go-to platform for other crowdfunding platforms. The growing list includes stalwarts like LandBay and TrillionFund.  Now they have added another crowdfunding platform to the ranks of aspiring platforms raising capital on their site; Swiss-Crowd. Swiss Crowd only recently launched their… Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 9:30 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  When navigating the increasingly popular path of real estate crowdfunding, Jilliene Helman is among the leaders at the front of the group. Named to Forbes’ 2015 30 Under 30 list, Jilliene is the CEO and founder of Realty Mogul, a fast-growing real estate crowdfunding platform that has invested over… Read More

June 15, 2015 @ 8:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Money360, a commercial real estate peer to peer lending platform, has hire Laura Catalino as a Senior VP to manage investor relations. “Online marketplace lenders such as Money360 are providing commercial real estate borrowers with more loan options than ever, while also offering investors a… Read More

June 11, 2015 @ 2:42 pm By Anthony Zeoli  |  

As you may remember, in an earlier post entitled “Investor Protection Issue – Why You May Want To Reconsider How “Secure” You Feel About Your Real Estate Crowdfunding Investment,” I took issue with the fact that the majority, if not all, currently offered Real Estate… Read More

June 6, 2015 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdstacker, a new peer to peer lending platform has launched today with its first loan product. The direct lender explains its approach as offering  retail investors the option to lend money to “non-listed but established mid-sized and financially stable businesses. Karteek Patel, CEO of Crowdstacker,… Read More

June 5, 2015 @ 3:16 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Today, National Doughnut Day, New York City real estate adds yet another attraction to the likes of the Statue of Liberty and the Metropolitan Museum of Art: It’s home to America’s best doughnut, according to a recent survey from city guide app Foursquare. Not for nothing… Read More

June 3, 2015 @ 8:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  Real estate crowdfunding portal iFunding  raised $2M in capital on its equity crowdfunding round on Crowdfunder.  Pre-money valuation stands at $20 million. iFunding will use the additional capital to expand operations, boost technology and grow sales.  The company generated nearly $1M in commitments in just 48 hours according… Read More

June 2, 2015 @ 11:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fairway America has announced a $2 million commitment from Fairway America Fund VII, LP to Pathfinder Partners Opportunity Fund V, L.P. Fairway is also announcing Pathfinder’s parallel fund, Pathfinder Fund V-A, has now been listed on Fairway’s SBREFunds, a crowdfunding marketplace focusing exclusively on quality products… Read More

June 1, 2015 @ 9:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle is pushing further into the real estate lending space by offering a new short term bridge loan tagging property developers.  According to the peer to peer lender, over the last 12 months Funding Circle has lent over £60 million for property loans creating… Read More

May 28, 2015 @ 4:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Patch of Land, a crowdfunding solution for real estate financing that brings together borrowers and lenders through an online platform, announces today that the largest ever, entirely crowdfunded residential home loan was fully funded on its website. The Covered Wagon Investment Group, boasting over 60… Read More

May 22, 2015 @ 4:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

iGlobal Forum is pleased to host the second annual Real Estate Crowdfunding Summit 2015, where you will have the opportunity to meet the leading real estate crowdfunding thought leaders and experts as they share their perspectives and stories within this amazingly fast-growing industry. This interactive, panel-driven… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 2:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs has carved out a nice little niche in becoming the crowdfunding site of choice for crowdfunding platforms.  Seedrs recently added another funding platform to their growing list; LandLordInvest. Described as the UK’s first “near prime property peer to peer lending” LandlordInvest is hoping to… Read More