Tagged: real estate

April 20, 2015 @ 12:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Acquire Real Estate has created an exchange that offers investors a tool to put their equity interests up for re-sale, affording them possible liquidity with what are traditionally long term, illiquid investments. Steven Bettinger, CEO of Acquire, stated: “The Acquire Exchange addresses the biggest concern that… Read More

April 13, 2015 @ 6:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Real estate crowdfunding platform Fundrise has shared a bit of history.  The first ever crowdfunded real estate project has opened up as a “communal food” and retail market in the H Street corridor in our nation’s Capitol. Maketto, located at 1351 H Street NE, was… Read More

April 8, 2015 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Patch of Land, a leading real estate crowdfunding platform, has announced a solid $23.6 million funding round that captured the interest of SF Capital and Prosper President Ron Suber – a significant validation of their vision for the future of real estate investing.  Both Suber… Read More

April 7, 2015 @ 4:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

AssetAvenue, a debt based real estate crowdfunding platform, has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round led by DCM Ventures. Founded in 2013, this significant funding will dramatically boost AssetAvenue’s growth as it invests in technology and product development.  The funding is indicative of… Read More

April 7, 2015 @ 12:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform Realty Shares captured some CNBC love late last month.  The network hooked up with the investment platform that allows smaller investors that opportunity to participate in real estate assets for as little as $5000.  The interview with real estate investor Ben… Read More

April 3, 2015 @ 8:01 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Australia’s real estate crowdfunding scene has been a hot topic in recent news, including the launch of real estate crowdfunding platform, CrowdfundUp, offering both debt and equity investment opportunities to investors of all types. But the Outback is also home to another online real estate… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 9:19 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a peer to peer lender that targets real estate mortgages, has announced a partnership with Plentific, an online property marketplace. LendInvest has facilitated over £269 million in short and medium term mortgage loans to date making it the largest in the world. Plentific was… Read More

March 25, 2015 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Later this morning the Securities and Exchange Commission will be releasing final rules for Title IV of the JOBS Act otherwise known as Regulation A+. While the details are not yet know, the expectations are for proposed rules to allow raised of up to $50… Read More

March 23, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Residential property crowdfunding platform, Property Partner, today announces a £5.2 million funding round to transform the way people invest in the residential property market. By bringing innovation and simplicity to a previously hard-to-access marketplace, Property Partner enables people to invest as much or as little as… Read More

March 20, 2015 @ 10:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Property investment company the House Crowd has announced surpassing the £10 million mark in funds raised since its launch in 2012.  The platform uses crowdfunding to raise capital to invest in property which is then refurbished. In September of 2014, House Crowd released it had… Read More

March 19, 2015 @ 10:48 am By JD Alois  |  

The combination of real estate and the internet is a perfect storm. The traditional approach continues to be labor intensive, and time consuming, for both sellers and buyersn and is truly in need of a big update.  iProperty is one of these new, innovative firms,… Read More

March 19, 2015 @ 8:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer mortgage lender Landbay has appointed Julian Cork as Chief Operating Officer. Julian has been hired aid in the rapid growth being experienced by the funding platform. He will be joining co-founders John Goodall and Gray Stern in the buy to let focused… Read More

March 18, 2015 @ 9:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Australia was early to the equity crowdfunding game with ASSOB but they are a bit late in real estate crowdfunding – that is until today. CrowdfundUp, a Perth based startup, has launchd Australia’s first real estate crowdfunding platform offering both debt and equity investment  opportunities… Read More

March 17, 2015 @ 9:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

investUP (known as UP), the crowdfunding supermarket, today announces partnerships with five new equity and Peer-to-Business (P2B) crowdfunding sites, joining the eight crowdfunding sites already on the investUP platform. These partnerships will allow investors to search for the most suitable investments from a greater choice of… Read More

March 16, 2015 @ 6:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Patch of Land, a real estate crowdfunding platform that is debt-based, has been selected to participate in Harvard Business School’s Real Estate Venture Competition. The competition will take place during the annual Harvard Real Estate Weekend and is focused on early stage startups who will… Read More

March 16, 2015 @ 2:14 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

As spring strikes again and bird nests fill the trees, a leading UK online estate agent is helping homeowners sell their brick-and-mortar nests on the ground. Urban.co.uk, based in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, is now equity crowdfunding on CrowdCube, a leading investment crowdfunding platform, with minimum share… Read More

March 11, 2015 @ 10:18 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Realty Mogul, one of the leading pioneers in online peer-to-peer real estate investing, will be only real estate-related business chosen to present at the West Coast’s premier conference for technology investors. The Montgomery Summit, presented by Macquarie Capital, selected Los Angeles-based Realty Mogul from more than… Read More

March 10, 2015 @ 1:00 am By Therese Torris  |  

Leading French crowdfunding platforms Anaxago and WiSeed launched real estate business units to meet strong demand from both real estate developers and investors. In this interview, Souleymane Galadima, the Managing Director of WiSeed Immobilier, presents his company’s current real estate crowdfunding model based on debt… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 9:11 am By Therese Torris  |  

French real estate developers badly need private equity and French savers have a strong, yet until recently unsatisfied, appetite for investing in real estate development. Crowdfunding comes to the rescue. Two leading French equity crowdfunding sites Anaxago and WiSeed have recently launched a division dedicated… Read More

March 3, 2015 @ 10:44 am By JD Alois  |  

One of the fastest segments of crowdfunding is the real estate sector. A perfect marriage of asset class with the convenience of online investing, real estate crowdfunding will completely alter the real estate finance industry.  Previously only an elite group of institutions and family offices… Read More