The market for Real Estate has grown to pre-crisis levels, prices are increasingly higher and even rents have been affected with quite high rises.
Interest in this productive sector has returned to pre-crisis levels, attracting non-professional investors through crowdfunding methods to gain exposure and diversify with small investments and facilitating the expansion of platforms that offer brokerage, accounting and marketing services for both rentals and sales of companies.
More and more technology companies are taking the leap and trying to take over some of the typical processes in the real estate sector, both for professionals and the average citizen, and investors are beginning to enter with capital or acquire them by seeing great capacity for growth.
In the following post we bring you the latest investments in this sector, which due to its low commissions and accessibility is beginning to gain attractiveness both for investors and users of these apps, which are growing all the time.
Perch is transforming the way people buy and sell homes in the United States. By simplifying everything, in an attempt to provide a customer-friendly offering with disruptive features.
Perch aims to take the uncertainty and stress out of trying to align the timing of buying and selling by seeking to optimise both the legal and fiscal processes and the time of sale and purchase. to avoid financial disruption based on AI technology.
On 2 April this company obtained a $20M Series B funding round in addition to a $200M loan to increase the company's functionalities and increase marketing and promotional spending in the three states in which it operates.
Property Finder at the end of 2018 closed a $120M funding round, seeking the growth of one of the largest real estate sites in the Middle East and North Africa.
The size of this expansion seeks to grow in size in order to obtain markets of scale and thus be able to reduce brokerage commissions.
The attractiveness of this platform, in turn, lies in the number of residences for rent in tourist areas of Dubai and other busy Middle Eastern cities.
Lenda is a pioneering online platform in refinancing loans and mortgages onlineWe are able to have the actual price of the properties in real time, make the application, verify and upload the paperwork and close the loans.
This company has received about $9M in the last 4 years to grow in a niche market where there are few competitors, in mortgage and loan refinancing.