Crowdfunding, a new innovation in raising funds, is presently changing the real estate investment landscape in the United States. More developers are beginning to embrace this trend by partnering with crowdfunding platforms to raise direct investment for their projects.
Can two disparate investment markets – one old and one new – get along without driving each other crazy? That’s the key question for crowdfunding and the real estate market. It’s a question being answered in positive ways in 2014..
The US commercial real estate market is an $11 trillion dollar. There is no surprise it attracts thousands of investors. But historically, financial barriers to entrée have been very high, making it impossible for an average Joe to enjoy...
Although considered unorthodox by some, the use of crowdfunding to develop real estate projects has started to win adherents, and Mainstreet, one of the nation’s largest developers of short-stay rehabilitation and long-term care properties, just raised over $1.6 million.
You know crowdfunding has gone mainstream when it takes on the traditional, serious market of real estate investment. But Portland’s CrowdStreet is making a play for the type of people who plunk down
Project Listed on CrowdStreet Generates “Record Setting Results”. Investors Participate from Across the Country.
Real estate ownership is one of the oldest — and most inefficient — businesses. Real estate companies or “sponsors” looking to raise equity for new development, project repositionings, or acquisitions still rely heavily on old school methods such as their black book of investors and handshake deals at the local country club.
Crowdfunding, a new innovation in raising funds, is presently changing the real estate investment landscape in the United States. More developers are beginning to embrace this trend by partnering with crowdfunding platforms to raise direct investment for their projects.
The latest equity crowdfunding platform, launched this week out of Portland, has a twist. Crowdfunding has become a hot topic for startups as a way to raise capital, either through equity or through rewards of product...