Sharestates Receives the 2017 Great Neck Best Mortgage Lender Award
Sharestates, an online real estate investment marketplace, has been presented the 2017 Great Neck Best Mortgage Lender Award by the Great Neck Award Program, an annual awards program that honors and acknowledges the achievements of [...]
The State of Private Lending in Canada
The global financial crisis of 2008/2009 brought about tremendous change in the world insofar as the banking and financial services sectors were concerned. As most economies around the world struggled, the global monetary policy response [...]
Do You Know Your Market Share?
Do you know your organization’s local, regional and national market share? Accurate volume data about the private lending market can be hard to come by. Yet it’s critical to know the size of your market [...]
Investors Benefit from Transparency, Data and Reputation in the Real Estate Crowdfunding Space
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, [...]
Lenders vs. Investors
Entrepreneurs have long wrestled with the question of whether or not they should use their own money to fund a project, raise capital through multiple investors using a fund, use a lender, or a combination [...]
Understanding Online Real Estate Lending as an Investment Strategy
Investors are always on a quest to grow capital while minimizing risk. Available options for investors looking to grow their capital include stock investments, debt products, or leaving their cash in checking and savings accounts [...]
Defined Demand for Fintech
Elon Musk, founder and CEO at Tesla, just announced his company will add an electric semi-truck to their fleet of products. The immediate public assumption was that this innovation will do more than just improve [...]
New Direction IRA hires new Director of Investor Services
New Direction IRA, Inc. (NDIRA) is pleased to announce the hiring of Ryan Griffiths as its Director of Investor Services, a newly-created position with the company. As a Certified IRA Services Professional (CISP), he will [...]
American Association of Private Lenders announces its new Education Advisory Committee
American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL) is pleased to announce the formation of its new Education Advisory Committee. The committee is comprised of five current members: Corey Dutton, Private Money Utah; Chris Ragland, Noble Capital; [...]
Think Realty’s National Convention & Expo to educate, inspire investors in Baltimore
Think Realty will hold a National Conference & Expo, June 24 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Real estate investors, agents, lenders, property flippers, landlords and note buyers will learn how to navigate current market legal [...]
Fannie Mae Announces Results of its Third Reperforming Loan Sale Transaction
Fannie Mae (OTC Bulletin Board: FNMA) today announced the results of its third reperforming loan sale transaction. The deal, which was announced on May 10, 2017, included the sale of approximately 13,500 loans totaling $2.99 [...]
InstaLend expands to three new states
InstaLend announced successful growth of its real estate crowdfunding platform, expanding to Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Georgia. As of June 1, 2017, investors in these three states, as well as New Jersey, will be able to [...]
Trust Deed Investments: Know more than your brokerage
Trust deed investing has long been misunderstood by investors and is often labeled as an “alternative” investment. Trust deed Ponzi schemes have taken many investors for a wild ride leading up to the Great Recession. Further [...]
Finding the Right Mix of Capital Sources to Fund Real Estate Investment Projects
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 [...]
Time for Executives to Improve their Public Relations Skills
Public relations nightmares have taken over our social feeds and media commentaries. In doing so, it has proven there is a huge gap between chief executive officers and their public relations people – whether on [...]
American Association of Private Lenders announces Ethics Advisory Committee changes
American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL) is pleased to announce the addition of Bobby Montagne Jr. of Walnut Street Finance and Walnut Street Investment Fund to its Ethics Advisory Committee, and the addition of Melissa [...]
Money360 Closes $45M in Commercial Real Estate Loans Break Monthly Record
Marketplace lender surpasses $250 million in total closed loans Money360, the leading commercial real estate marketplace lending platform, closed more than $45 million in loans in April, the company announced today. This brings the company’s [...]
ABS Announces Flexible SaaS Subscriptions for The Mortgage Office® and The Loan Office®
Applied Business Software (“ABS”) announced the availability of powerful cloud-based solutions for its flagship products The Mortgage Office® and The Loan Office® to help companies transition to the Cloud. The cloud-based versions are licensed on [...]
CIVIC Hires Champion of Simplicity
Merced Cohen named Director of Operations at CIVIC Financial Services CIVIC Financial Services has hired efficiency expert and creative leader, Merced Cohen, to direct the company’s operations. After spending the last 10 years deconstructing and [...]
AlphaFlow Adds Veteran Fintech Executive AdaPia d’Errico To Management Team
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 [...]
