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The Monthly Funding Report is tracking the monthly funding amounts of real estate crowdfunding, peer-to-peer & online marketplace lending platforms. Is the market increasing or decreasing? A report based on numbers reported to P2PMarketData.

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The history of crowdfunding goes back to 1200 when crowds financed shipping ventures, but the game changed with the internet. Crowdfunding as we know is a recent innovation but the history tells the story: Crowdfunding is here to stay.

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Real Estate Crowdfunding is a great new way to invest in commercial and residential real estate. It requires much less capital than buying a rental property, at the same time offering better diversification and less fuss with property management.

The Monthly Funding Report covers the development of alternative financing throughout the world by tracking crowdfunding investments, peer-to-peer & online lending platforms funding amounts month-by-month.

This article helps you understand real estate collateral. There is a difference between secured vs. unsecured loans. There’s also a degree of confusion: are unsecured loans really so scary? Are secured loans totally safe?

In real estate crowdfunding there are different investment types largely changing the risk and return ratios of projects. In this article we go through the capital stack layers of securitization and the differences in syndicated and direct debt.

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending is a type of debt-based crowdfunding facilitated by online P2P lending platforms that connect borrowers and lenders by circumventing conventional loan processes, requirements, and intermediaries.

This is the September Funding Volume Report published by P2P Market Data. We publish a new funding volume report on a monthly basis as we receive fresh monthly data from all the platforms listed on the site.

Real Estate Crowdfunding vs. Rental Property investing. Should you manage your own properties by yourself or is it better to buy it with a crowd and have someone else managing it? In this article we evaluate the pros and cons of both sides.

Real Estate Crowdfunding vs. REITs. Is it better to buy a financial product such as a Real Estate Investment Trust or should you co-invest together with a crowd in real estate? We look into the main advantages and disadvantages of both investments.