The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has indicated that it will tighten up regulation of the burgeoning crowdfunding industry, of which real estate lending is an increasing sub-sector.
2 min read · 09 December 2016
Crowdfunding platforms are a small part of Europe’s real estate finance market, but financial technology moves fast and can be disruptive.
3 min read · 08 December 2016
CR, the real estate asset manager which is expanding into lending and debt advisory, has bought a stake in a firm which provides specialist services to real estate and alternative sector investors.
2 min read · 07 November 2016
RealtyMogul.com has launched a non-traded real estate investment trust (REIT) that will be distributed exclusively online and aims to give small investors an entryway into the commercial real estate market.
2 min read · 16 August 2016
Peer-to-peer real estate lender LendInvest has appointed Stephan Wilcke (pictured), the former executive chairman of OneSavings Bank, as senior adviser to its senior management team.
2 min read · 17 June 2016
Paul Deitch, a former managing director at investment firm Oaktree Capital Management, has joined commercial real estate debt platform Patch of Land as CEO.
2 min read · 09 May 2016
“The UK property market has been seriously dysfunctional for some time”. This was the attention-grabbing assertion made by InvestSure chief executive officer (CEO), Janine Lewis, upon the launch of the new online financing platform earlier this week.
3 min read · 21 April 2016
Online platform InvestSure has launched today, pledging to address “the chronic lack of available finance in the UK property market”.
2 min read · 19 April 2016
The US Department of Treasury (DoT) has issued a request for Information (RFI) on the lending practices of marketplace lenders that could impact up-and-coming online CRE lenders like FundRise, Realty Mogul or Prodigy Network.
1 min read · 06 August 2015
Just two months after real estate crowdfunding platform Realty Mogul launched a commercial lending division, the online marketplace has reportedly raised $250m of capital for commercial real estate debt investments.
2 min read · 16 June 2015
