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SEC Adopts Rules to Permit Crowdfunding

SEC Proposes Amendments to Existing Rules to Facilitate Intrastate and Regional Securities Offerings. Washington D.C., Oct. 30, 2015 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted final rules to permit companies to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding. The Commission also voted to propose amendments to existing Securities Act rules to facilitate intrastate and regional securities offerings. The new rules and proposed amendments are designed to assist smaller companies with capital formation and provide investors with additional protections.

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Top 3 Takeaways from ULI's Real Estate + Tech Event

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) held an invitation-only, CRE Tech event in midtown Manhattan for 75 industry leaders. This article summarizes the top three take-aways from the event as observed by CrowdStreet Co-Founder Darren Powderly.

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3 Types of Real Estate Crowdfunding Websites

Crowdfunding platforms continue to gain momentum as a viable means for investors to identify real estate investment opportunities, and for real estate firms to raise capital and manage investors online.

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The Beauty of the GP Co-Investment Structure

Private equity real estate is rooted in the underlying concept that there is an inescapable positive linear correlation between risk and reward when it comes to investment returns.

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The Evolution of Real Estate Investing

Commercial real estate investing is no longer an exclusive club reserved for the likes of Donald Trump. Crowdfunding and the access that it has created is truly revolutionizing commercial real estate investing for accredited investors.

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Developers Tap New Sources of Financing

Banks have traditionally been the go-to source for construction loans. But they may lose some of that edge in an increasingly competitive marketplace that is filling up with non-bank lenders, as well as a tougher regulatory environment that will make banks “think twice” about issuing construction loans.

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SEC Advisory Committee Recommends Modernizing Rule 147 To Support Intrastate Crowdfunding

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies met in early June to discuss various topics concerning, of course, small businesses. One of the primary topics the Committee addressed was the growing enactment and use of state-based crowdfunding (i.e. “Intrastate crowdfunding”) and how the SEC can, and should, support those efforts by modernizing Rule 147.

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What is Crowdfunding

Integrating the very best of crowdsourcing and micro finance, crowdfunding combines different individuals who dedicate cash to companies and jobs they wish to support. It’s a quickly-growing and young market however one that is transforming how individuals act with their cash. It’s likewise transforming the ways businesses raise capital. Crowdfunding is simply stating– the same consulting companies anticipate the industry to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 100 % over the near term.

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Retail Development Gains Momentum

New construction dropped off a cliff during the worst of the recession. According to data from DTZ, the combined volume of retail space built in the four-year period between 2009 and 2012 totaled 19.3 million sq. ft. Yet activity began accelerating in 2013 with 17.1 million sq. ft. of new space built in 2013 and another 23.7 million sq. ft. of completions last year. In fact, that volume in 2014 was just shy of the peak level of 25.5 million sq. feet that was built in 2005, according to DTZ.

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SEC Raises Limits for Investment

Real estate crowdfunding boomed in 2014. Now, new SEC rules for Title IV of the JOBS Act have made crowdfunding even more attractive to real estate deal sponsors. Gene Trowbridge, CCIM, principal in Trowbridge Taylor Sidoti LLC in Lake Forest, Calif., explains the details.

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Linneman Letter - Spring 2015

The big questions on everyone's mind are, "What do low oil prices mean?" and "Will they remain low?" The volatility of crude prices has increased since 1994. From 1964-1993, the standard deviation of real crude prices was $24 per barrel.

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