The real estate business has fluctuated over the previous decade - NAR (National Association of Realtors) participation was at the highest point in the history in 2006...
The German Crowdfunding Association, the federal industry association which represents 85% of the German crowd investment market, welcomed last week the adoption by the German Parliament of the new and improved legal framework for crowdinvesting, albeit with a few regrets.
Every few centuries, financial markets across the globe undergo a pivotal revolution, and investors who stay ahead of the revolution become enormously wealthy. Sure, none of us had yet been born the last time one of these investment revolutions happened. But, the next one — the private investing revolution — is here. Inevitably, it’s going…
We are hearing a lot of chatter about some online lending platforms halting originations and some real estate crowdfunding platforms pulling back. A report out of the DACH countries provides some European perspective. In the DACH countries, property investment has been a standout performer in online capital formation and investment.
Crowdfunded real estate investing has been creating quite a buzz in the real estate investing world for the past several years. From the beginner-friendly Fundrise to the larger, more robust Crowdstreet, there's a crowdfunding platform to suit nearly any investor.
Beginning a rally at the start of 2020, Bitcoin (BTC) and the rest of the crypto market continue to fly upward, showing little signs of slowing down. The “crypto market is hot right now, and what stands out to me the most is that there are plenty of altcoins that are still running even with…
Renaissance Technologies’ flagship hedge fund Medallion has dipped its toes into the wild world of cryptocurrency trading, in a sign that the computer-driven investment group is willing to play in more esoteric markets to generate its industry-leading returns.
The Japanese yen is among the world’s most traded currencies, and it accounts for 5.7% of global foreign exchange reserves. As the third largest share after the dollar and the euro, it’s garnered a reputation as being one of the world’s “safe-haven” of assets known for keeping its value during international crises or market turmoil.
While being two very disparate investment markets, crowdfunding and the real estate market are a perfect fit and one that allows investors a new way to leverage profits from the real estate markets. Fractional ownership or crowdfunding in real estate is not a new concept; it has been around since the 1960s and has been…
The German real estate crowdfunding market is set to more than triple in size this year. Real estate developers, asset managers, and, most recently, real estate agents are joining the fray of real estate crowdfunding platforms, trying to unseat the handful of leaders who have already established a strong leadership position in this very…
Towards the end of 2018, Suleman Soorani met the chief executive of Smart Crowd, a UAE real estate crowdfunding platform that allows investors to buy a piece of property for as little as Dh5,000. Mr Soorani, a director in a Dubai investments company, “loved the idea”, put in money in the start-up as an angel…
Real estate Amid paucity of funds and advances in technology sweeping across most industries on a global scale, operators in the Nigerian real estate sector are adopting the concept of crowdfunding, as an inevitable source of funding project.
Provides an online service to help investors defer taxes on real estate gains through the use of the IRS-approved 1031 exchange by seamlessly investing in institutional-quality commercial real estate deals pre-packaged into exchange-qualified DSTs.
A box containing a 5-minute test for COVID-19 from Abbott Laboratories is pictured during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 30, 2020.
Did you think the toilet paper shortages were bad? Wait until Americans clear the store shelves of pork, chicken, and beef. Meat processing plants across the country are shutting their doors as coronavirus outbreaks sicken and kill their workers. Tyson’s Waterloo Iowa plant, the company’s biggest pork plant, is the latest domino to fall. And…
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk is close to getting a windfall that would dwarf any payday for star Silicon Valley executives as the electric-car maker predicts it could reach a key milestone within months.
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Pedestrians pass in front of a Macy's Inc. store in the Midtown neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Friday, March 20, 2020. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Macy's is planning to reopen 68 department stores Monday, in states including South Carolina and Georgia, where local governments are loosening lockdown restrictions during the coronavirus…
First-Quarter Revenue Grows 47% Year on Year Shopify reports in U.S. dollars and in accordance with U.S. GAAP Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP)(TSX:SHOP), a leading global commerce company, announced today strong financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2020.
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General Motors said Wednesday it eked out a $294 million profit for the first quarter despite the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic that has shuttered factories and devastated sales. The Covid-19 outbreak cut deeply into GM's performance, costing the largest U.S. automaker $1.4 billion before taxes during the first three months of the year. Of the top U.S.-based…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google said on Tuesday it would stop charging merchants to place products on its Google Shopping search page as it looks to win e-commerce advertising business from Amazon.com Inc and other online retailers, just as they are struggling to supply customers with some items due to the coronavirus pandemic.
An employee places a pizza box onto a shelf at a Domino's Pizza Inc. restaurant in Chantilly, Virginia. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Domino's Pizza on Thursday said U.S. same-store sales continued to grow a month into its second quarter, even as the coronavirus pandemic roils the restaurant industry.
Deutsche Bank has set aside 260 million euros ($282 million) to deal with potential loan losses as a result of the coronavirus crisis, the bank said Wednesday, as it reported its first-quarter results for 2020 in full.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. sold its One Kings Lane home décor unit but said a deal to sell another subsidiary failed to close as planned. The home-goods retailer also said sales declines widened in recent months, as the coronavirus pandemic forced it to close most of its roughly 1,500 stores.
