The real estate crowdfunding space is a booming industry. This can be a good thing for borrowers and real estate investors as online marketplace lenders provide fast, efficient and transparent offerings. Bloomberg, quoting Jason Best, a partner at Crowdfund Capital Advisors, noted how last year the U.S. online lending volume more than tripled between 2014 [...]
The fix-and-flip industry reached a new high in 2016, with 6 percent of all homes sold, officially designated as fix-and-flips. All of these projects create billions of dollars in capital demands each year. Demands that are especially well-suited to and met by the private lending industry. For lenders, having the available capital to fund as [...]
Investment Management Firm Expands Team of Real Estate, Tech and Lending Leaders to Offer AlphaFlow Optimized Portfolios to More Investors and Institutions AlphaFlow, the first automated portfolio service for real estate investments, announced today that veteran fintech executive AdaPia d’Errico has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer to scale the investor platform and expand [...]
Home prices have increased in all four US regions over the past five years with some regions experiencing greater gains than others (see chart below). An analysis of nationwide trends provides insight to why this has occurred, and why it is likely to continue into the near future. Source: NAR Census data is [...]
Leading Texas-based private lending firm, Noble Capital, today announced the launch of a $250 million Texas real estate fund in partnership with San Francisco-based private investment bank, US Capital Partners, through the firm’s private securities division, US Capital Global Securities (“US Capital”). In addition to increased capacity for Noble Capital’s borrower network, the US Capital [...]
As the Trump administration embraces rapid change across many spheres of government, it is the approach to Section 8 housing that has the potential to bring opportunities for builders and the private finance industry. In this regard, it is particularly notable that President Trump nominated Dr. Ben Carson, who grew up in the inner city, [...]
The mortgage industry is anticipating significant changes when it implements the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's 2016 Servicing Rule, but determining how those changes will affect operations will have to wait until the rule is fully implemented. The CFPB will not allow early compliance with the new regulations, which leaves the mortgage servicing industry left questioning [...]
On the campaign trail, candidate Donald Trump frequently discussed the need to scrap the Dodd-Frank Act (the “Act”). Following the election, the President-elect’s transition team signaled that reform will most likely come incrementally. The area most likely to be tackled first encompasses the portions of the Act that have hampered lending by small lenders and [...]
Stop by a Sherwin-Williams store and you’ll see that gray is replacing beige as the go-to neutral color for interior decorating. This anecdote provides a platform for a plethora of bad puns, because the graying of the Baby Boomer population is having a major impact on the housing market. The aging of Baby Boomers presents [...]
This past week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made it easier for businesses to raise capital through crowdfunding efforts. The SEC adopted new and amended crowdfunding rules to allow companies to raise capital from small offerings more quickly and from out-of-state investors. SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White made the announcement of new Rule 147A, [...]
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