PeerStreet, a marketplace for investing in real estate backed loans, is honored to announce that its Co-Founder and CEO, Brew Johnson, has been named to HousingWire’s 2017 list of Vanguard Award winners. HousingWire’s 2017 Vanguard Award recognizes top leaders from all areas of the mortgage industry, including those in lending, real estate and investing. Brew [...]
Sharestates, an online real estate investment marketplace, announced the launch of its new One Click Closing tool, a feature that will allow return borrowers to visit a page where they can upload all the details and documents required for a new loan, allowing for a seamless transfer of closing date information without further communications. The [...]
Private lenders who work with PeerStreet can access a platform to make their business more efficient PeerStreet, an award-winning platform for investing in real estate backed loans, is excited to announce that it is aggressively expanding available resources and tools for private real estate lenders on its platform. PeerStreet is a secondary marketplace that provides [...]
Patch of Land, a leading online real estate lending marketplace engineered to help real estate investors build wealth and generate cash-flow, has announced that Paul Deitch, the company’s CEO since April 2016 will be stepping down for personal reasons. As a result, Jason Fritton, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, will return to the role [...]
Ease of use and portfolio diversity among the benefits to investors By Brian Fritton, Chief Technology Officer at Patch of Land Automatic investment tools are gaining traction with real estate crowdfunding platforms as a way for investors to obtain greater access to transactions that meet their investing criteria Available on most well-known real estate crowdfunding [...]
Like every other type of investment, real estate investment has changed significantly over the past several years. To remain successful, real estate investors must keep up with new ways of funding and conducting deals. One of the most promising developments for investors is the advent of crowdfunding. In crowdfunding, groups of people come together, usually [...]
Applied Business Software (“ABS”) announced the upcoming update to The Mortgage Office™ Loan Origination System (LOS) will be ready for the collection and reporting changes of the 2018 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and Regulation C (HMDA). The upcoming enhancements will enable our users to easily collect and report the loan data as defined in HMDA [...]
Small Change is first. FINRA (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) has just approved Small Change, the Pittsburgh-based crowdfunding platform, as the nation’s first Funding Portal dedicated to real estate. With a small stroke of a pen, or, more likely, click of a mouse, FINRA has ushered in a new era for real estate investors. Now, [...]
A few years back, a friend asked me to join him in a meeting with a group that was raising money for a crowdfunding platform that allowed sports teams to raise money for travel and equipment. I’ll never forget it because the principal asked, “Have you heard of the funding vehicle kind of new to [...]
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