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| 06.02.2026 | Cross River Bank Extends $100M Credit Line to MidOcean for Home Equity Investments | Cross River Bank has announced the provision of a $100 million revolving credit facility to an investment entity overseen by MidOcean Partners. This arrangement is collateralized by home equity investment agreements sourced from Point Digit... |
| 17.09.2024 | The Future of Home Financing: Navigating Change in the Mortgage Landscape | The mortgage industry is undergoing a seismic shift. Two recent developments illustrate this transformation: ICE Mortgage Technology's decision to sunset its legacy integrations for the Encompass platform and Unison's launch of a hybrid hom... |
| 17.09.2024 |
Unison unveils ‘hybrid’ home equity sharing loan | Home equity solutions provider Unison launched a new product on Tuesday that combines the features of traditional mortgage financing and emerging home equity investment (HEI) options.
The San Francisco-based Unison calls its new offering th... |
| 17.09.2024 |
Carlyle to buy up to $300M of equity sharing home loans from Unison | Global investment firm Carlyle has agreed to purchase up to $300 million of equity sharing home loans from home equity solutions provider Unison. Carlyle also made a strategic investment into the San Francisco-based Unison, enabling it to l... |
| 10.07.2024 | Business | House-rich, cash-strapped: Advice for older homeowners | HELOCs: for qualified borrowers who want flexibility
If you need cash to finance a multistep project — for example, making some upgrades to your home to improve accessibility — the first option to consider is a home equity line of credit, o... |
| 30.05.2024 |
Point, Atalaya Capital close on $141M securitization | Home equity fintech lender Point, in collaboration with its long-time financing partner Atalaya Capital Management, has successfully closed a $141 million rated asset-backed securities transaction.
The securitization was completed on May 15... |
| 01.04.2024 |
Once at the fringes of housing finance, home equity investment companies look to grow their stake | “What if homeowners could tap into home equity without taking on debt?”
When Hometap launched in 2017, the Boston-based fintech offered an unorthodox answer to this question for homeowners looking for an alternative to a loan. Through a hom... |
| 08.03.2024 |
Why Hometap is betting on the growth of the home equity investment market | Based on the notion that far too many U.S. homeowners are “house-rich, cash-poor,” home equity investment firm Hometap provides clients with a way to tap into their home equity instead of selling their home or taking out a loan.
Hometap, as... |
| 12.10.2023 |
Despite record increases, many Americans struggle to tap home equity: study | Americans have seen as much as a 64% increase in average levels of home equity since 2018, rising to $29.3 trillion.
But interest rates and tighter lending standards for more traditional home equity tapping options — including Home Equity L... |
| 21.08.2023 |
Nearly 40 housing tech firms make the 2023 Inc. 5000 list | The past year hasn’t been particularly good for tech or housing. As a consequence, the number of real estate, mortgage and general housing tech firms to make the annual Inc. Magazine list of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies in Am... |
| 01.08.2023 | Survey: 1 in 3 Homeowners Who Want To Move Say High Mortgage Rates Are Holding Them Back | It’s a tough environment for homeowners, as high mortgage rates and home prices have many who want to move feeling trapped in an affordability spiral.
PALO ALTO, Calif. (PRWEB) August 01, 2023
Fears of rising mortgage rates have softened sl... |
| 14.07.2022 | Shared-equity firm Point expands into 2 more states | Palo Alto, California-based fintech Point, which offers home-equity investment (HEI) contracts to homeowners, is expanding its services into Nevada and Ohio.
With the expansion, Point’s HEI contracts are now available in 18 states and the D... |
| 09.05.2022 | What You Should Know About Popular HELOC Alternatives | |
| 03.05.2022 | This private equity firm is sharing returns with portfolio company employees | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
When a record number of people are quitting their jobs, it may help to give employees a stake in ... |
| 03.05.2022 | Point raises $115 million in Series C funding | A Palo Alto, California-based fintech startup Point, which bills itself as allowing homeowners to tap into future home appreciation, closed on a $115 million Series C funding round, the company announced Tuesday.
Point now says it has raise... |
| 03.05.2022 | Point Secures $115M in Series C Funding | Point, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based fintech company and home equity platform that provides homeowners access to equity financing in exchange for a fractional share of the future value of their homes, secured $115m in funding.
The round was led... |
| 06.04.2020 | Does Unison’s 50% job cut signal doom for housing fintech? | Home equity co-investing pioneer Unison cut almost 50% of its team Friday, and no, this doesn’t mean housing and fintech doom for two reasons.
First, cost-cutting is crisis leadership 101.
Julian Hebron,
Columnist
React fast and smart. Job ... |
| 10.04.2019 | Стартап дня: Point — платформа для кредитования покупателей недвижимости | Оценивает жильё и даёт деньги на его покупку. В течение десяти лет клиент обязан выкупить у платформы часть своего дома.
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Любая схема хорошо работает на стабильно растущем рынке. Попробовали бы они это в Росси... |
| 20.03.2019 | Point raises $122 million to extend equity financing to homeowners and buyers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Point, a Palo Alto startup that extends equity financing to homeowners and homebuyers, today announced that it has secured $122 million... |
| 20.03.2019 | Point raises $122 million to extend equity financing to homeowners and buyers | Point, a Palo Alto startup that extends equity financing to homeowners and homebuyers, today announced that it has secured $122 million in new financing, $22 million of which was raised in a series B equity funding led by Prudential Financi... |
| 20.03.2019 | Point Raises $122M in Debt and Series B Funding | Point, a Palo Alto, CA-based financial technology platform driving home equity investments, secured $122m in funding.
The deal included:
– a $22m Series B round led by Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) and DAG Ventures, with participation fro... |
| 20.03.2019 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, March 20 | BACKSTAGE SHAKE-UP
Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton is stepping down as CEO of Backstage Studio, the firm’s venture studio that incubates new companies and products. Term Sheet obtained a memo and audio message she sent to investors... |
| 27.02.2019 | SoFi founder Mike Cagney’s new company, Figure, just raised another $65 million | Figure, a 13-month-old, San Francisco-based company that says it uses blockchain technology to provide home equity loans online in as little as five days, has raised a whole lot of money in not a lot of time: $120 million to date, including... |
| 18.02.2019 | Финтехи, которых нет в России: вторая часть | Роман Бузько продолжает рассказывать про интересные иностранные финтехи, аналогов которых пока нет в России. В этот раз рассмотрим 14 проектов в трёх разных категориях.
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| 09.10.2018 | Divvy, an interesting new fractional home ownership startup, just raised a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz | Tech startups have found all kinds of ways to lend money to those hampered by either too little or not very good credit.
The approach of a nearly two-year-old, 15-person San Francisco-based startup called Divvy Homes is among the more creat... |
| 30.08.2018 | Andreessen Horowitz is announcing its third new general partner in just three months: Angela Strange | Angela Strange, who joined the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz nearly four years ago and has been quietly working alongside general partner Alex Rampell on a wide variety of fintech deals, has herself been named a general partner.
The prom... |
| 20.04.2018 | Point Receives Agrees Up To $150M Forward Flow Purchase Program with Atalaya Capital Management | Point, a Palo Alto, CA-based financial technology platform that allows homeowners to open home equity wealth without taking on new debt, has agreed to a forward flow purchase program with investment firm Atalaya Capital Management to purcha... |
| 18.04.2018 | Point Initiates Forward Flow Purchase Program with Atalaya: Unlocking Home Equity Wealth | Point, a fintech platform that allows homeowners to unlock home equity wealth without taking on new debt, has agreed to a forward flow purchase program with investment firm Atalaya Capital Management to purchase up to $150 million of Point’... |
| 20.06.2017 | Eight Fledgling Fintech Providers Win Capital with CFSI Awards | Eight fledgling fintech companies have won $250,000 each from the Center for Financial Services Innovation. Each FinLab winner in this third annual competition from the CFSI receives $250,000 in capital, along with resources to test, enhanc... |
| 06.06.2017 | Cadre collects $65 million in Series C funding | Cadre, a three-year-old, New York-based real estate startup, has raised $65 million in Series C funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Famed VC Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital also joined the round, along with the Ford Foundation, General Catalys... |
| 16.05.2017 | Cadre and Point are betting that the best way to win in real estate is to disrupt the market | On the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt, the founders of two of the hottest startups in real estate, Cadre and Point articulated the inefficiencies of today’s real estate markets and expressed optimism in their ability to use innovative markets ... |
| 24.04.2017 | Find out how startups are transforming real estate investing at Disrupt NY | Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, investors have become wary of investing in real estate, especially in the residential housing market. But startups have emerged over the last decade to help provide more transparency and accessibilit... |
| 13.09.2016 | Point raises $8.4 million to buy a stake in your home | Instead of taking on debt to buy a house, Point provides equity funding. The startup can find the capital needed to finance your home and in return they get partial ownership.
And now Point is getting its own funding, $8.4 million led by An... |
| 13.09.2016 | Point Raises $15.4M in Funding | Point, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of a fintech platform that allows homeowners to sell a fraction of their home to investors, raised $8.4m in Series A funding.
The round, which brought total funding to $15.4m (including venture debt fin... |
| 13.09.2016 | Fintech Platform Point Nabs $8.4M in Series A Funding, Led by Andreessen Horowitz | Point, claiming the title as the first financial technology platform that allows homeowners to unlock their home equity wealth without taking on new debt, announced today that it has raised $8.4 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen... |
| 25.11.2015 | TrialPay Co-Founder Back With Point, A Novel, Fractional Home Ownership Startup | Point — an 11-month-old, Palo Alto-based home equity marketplace that plans to take people’s homes and make them completely liquid, divisible and tradable by letting owners sell fractional equity in them — is raising funding, shows a new SE... |
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| - | Sharing a portion of your home's future appreciation can help you raise cash now with no monthly payments | Home equity sharing has been growing in popularity. Johner Images/Getty
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| - | Homeowners have a collective $700B in ‘trapped’ equity | More than $700 billion in home equity is effectively “trapped” and inaccessible to homeowners due to a variety of economic circumstances, including employment shocks and shifts in the market that negatively impact their credit scores.
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