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Real estate alternative investment platform AlphaFlow raised $4.1mn led by Resolute Ventures and Point72 Ventures; they plan to use the funds to scale partnerships with lenders and investors, accredited individual investors and investment managers; they also plan to hire more individuals for the data science and engineering division and potentially look at more asset classes int the future. Source.
It is not often we hear from Cadre which is an investment platform for real estate; Allen Smith was previously...
Reuters reports that Colchis Capital Management, a major player in investing in online direct lending platforms is winding down its...
Bunq has become one of the first European digital banks to enter the mortgage market with an announcement that they...
AlphaFlow is a new company that is focusing on connecting investors to the real estate crowdfunding ecosystem. Ray Sturm, who...
The UK based online real estate platform raised a £7mn ($9.2mn) series A round led by Berlin Hyp; in addition to the capital infusion Berlin Hyp struck a strategic partnership with BrickVest; the deal will allow BrickVest to continue building their technology, growing their investor network and increase dealflow. Source.
After the government ordered regulators to step in, property developers are now finding it very hard to raise debt or equity financing for developments; regulatory bodies have been told to stop issuances on the Hong Kong stock market, the Hong Kong bond market and in the Chinese interbank bond market; this is recently after a similar freeze on the Shanghai Stock Exchange; the crackdown is also looking to curb peer-to-peer transactions related to down payments; outstanding mortgage loans are at their highest level ever, $2.4 trillion in the first half of 2016. Source
CreditEase CEO Ning Tang is looking to offer an investment alternative to real estate investors by launching a fund of funds focused on real estate projects; currently investors in China need to directly buy property and hope the assets appreciate in value; the fund of funds strategy that CreditEase is looking to employ will allow investors to have access to leading real estate funds managed by Blackstone and KKR. Source.
Over the past several years, technology has become increasingly ingrained in our lives. Most recently, the current global pandemic has...