The real estate crowdfunding space has been an interesting one to watch. Just a few short years ago, in 2015...
Andy Rachleff, the CEO of Wealthfront argues that managed real estate funds perform poorly compared to low cost ETFs like Vanguard's REIT Index Fund; Fundrise's CEO Benjamin Miller responded in a blog post, writing "Less competitive, inefficient markets mean an investor can generally buy comparable assets at lower prices than efficient markets. With Shiller price-to-earnings (PE) ratios at all-time historic highs only seen in 1929 and 2001, more than ever investors need to find ways to invest at a reasonable cost basis."; Miller also argues that long term investors are paying a premium for the liquidity that ETFs offer, something that these investors don't need. Source
Lend Academy features two companies, Landed and Fundrise, who are taking a unique approach to building to new homes and providing down payment assistance. Source
The list of the Americas’ fastest growing companies highlights 500 businesses and was compiled with the research company Statista; it...
The real estate crowdfunding space has been a mixed bag; a couple of companies have continued to focus solely on...
Every quarter, LendIt co-founder Peter Renton shares his marketplace lending returns; in this blog post he shares his Q4 2019...
It has been almost four weeks since LendingClub closed down its retail investor platform and cash is already starting to...
Fundrise has announced a Regulation A investment offering of Rise Companies Corp. which is the parent company of the investment platform Fundrise, LLC; the campaign is currently in a solicitation phase which its website says has generated interest of over $58 million from more than 4,350 users; the investment offering circular was initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 29, 2016; some details from the most recent amended offering circular include the following: offering of one million shares of Class B non-voting common stock, offer and sale of the shares is limited to investors who have purchased investments on the Fundrise platform. Source
It seems like almost every day I see a story about increasing real estate prices in the major metropolitan areas...
Every quarter Peter Renton, Founder of Lend Academy and Co-Founder of LendIt Fintech shares his investments in various marketplace lenders;...
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