Selequity: The Latest Alternative to Commercial Real Estate Investing
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Investing in the commercial real estate industry is not an easy task unless you know a property developer or owner who can connect you with the property directly. Selequity has launched a crowdfunding platform that is specialized in commercial real estate investing. The platform aims at easier and quicker commercial real estate investing.
Selequity will help commercial real estate developers raise capital from interested investors to finance their projects. The platform will also lower investors’ entry barriers and ensure they have access to essential information on various investment opportunities. This will dramatically reduce the amount of time spent by the investors in studying the investment and thus, decide to or not to invest.
Several crowdfunding platforms including Selequity have been established due to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which relaxed the general solicitation rules about private fundraising. With the JOBS Act, accredited investors can now explore different investment opportunities and invest easily in projects of their choice. On the other hand, developers can also list their projects on different crowdfunding platforms and raise funds from the general public to finance these projects.
Selequity will act as a platform where commercial real estate developers and sponsors get connected with investors. Sponsors will use the platform to find new investors and also manage various investments from people who are within their current networks. In addition, the platform will be used to help in managing all the necessary communication and documentation between sponsors and investors.
The founders of Selequity are professionals with vast experience in the commercial real estate industry for over two decades. They are Mark Burkhart, Bill Florent, AJ Chivetta and Maria Desloge. The team is dedicated to sourcing various deals and developing tools that will be very effective in managing the sponsors’ businesses.
Currently, Selequity is only focused on existing commercial real estate projects. This helps them to understand the underlying risks of these projects and also to ease the entire investment process. Selequity is tapping into an industry that has several other platforms such as Fundrise, RealtyShares, iFunding and Realty Mogul. William Skelley, CEO of iFunding, notes the reason for the growth of this industry: “The JOBS Act of 2012 showed the way how to revolutionize real estate financing through evolving securities regulations using secure and scalable web platforms.”
http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04/selequity/
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Originally published at timesrealtynews.com on June 3, 2015.
