Tagged: real estate

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

September 14, 2024 @ 5:25 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polly, a provider of mortgage capital markets technology, this week announced $25 million in new growth equity capital. The raise was led by 8VC, with participation from existing investors including Menlo Ventures, Meritech, Khosla Ventures, and Fifth Wall. The funds are earmarked for research, development,… Read More

September 13, 2024 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lower mortgage rates and rising inventory in US real estate markets are giving home buyers a window of opportunity “at an unusual time of year,” according to the latest market report from Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG). Zillow noted in its latest real estate market… Read More

September 8, 2024 @ 8:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Over half of Gen Z and Millennials are looking to enter the property market in the next five years, according to an update from Australia’s ubank. New research comes as ubank announces a number of interest rate decreases to its home lending products. In line… Read More

August 22, 2024 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, a marketplace for the co-ownership of vacation homes, claims that shares of its properties have significantly outperformed the broader luxury residential market in its key regions, according to a recent analysis by RCLCO, a real estate consulting and economics firm. The research study reveals… Read More

August 14, 2024 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kiavi, a tech-enabled lender to residential real estate investors, announced it closed a $400 million rated securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs). While this is Kiavi’s first rated securitization, it is “the 19th transaction under its LHOME shelf.” In total, Kiavi has issued “more than… Read More

August 5, 2024 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Luxury real estate property values are rising faster than typical homes for the first time in years, according to an extensive update from Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG). Listings for luxury homes are seeing relatively more competition than homes in the market’s midrange, the team… Read More

August 4, 2024 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Preqin, the global firm focused on providing alternatives data and insight, released its Real Estate Q2 2024: Preqin Quarterly Update report. The report shows that aggregate real estate fundraising “increased by $0.6bn in Q2 2024 to $33bn from $32.4bn in Q1 2024, showing a continued… Read More