One of the 2016 CRE Breakout Session that I'm personally looking forward to is: Show Me The Money, Options for Sourcing Capital and Alternative Real Estate Investments. The moderator is Todd Richardson from Husch Blackwell with a panel of experts from the commercial financial community.
This has prompted many conversations on crowd funding and other emerging financing opportunities.
Doing research on the topic brought me to this article:
Acquire Real Estate Crowdfunding: Investing in Institutional Real Estate Alongside Investors
Excerpt:
Where do you see the real estate crowdfunding space in 10 years? Do you have any bold predictions?Because this hasn't been prevalent yet in the Omaha area, do a bit of homework and join us at the CRE Summit for the experts that will inform us all.
Real estate crowdfunding is the greatest change to real estate fundraising since the creation of the public REIT. Our platform leverages technology to connect investors to operators, while at the same time streamlining the investment process, lowering administration costs and saving time. As real estate crowdfunding matures, real estate operators will be able to raise more money from more investors in a more efficient manner than ever before. The Acquire team and many real estate experts agree that real estate crowdfunding will continually constitute larger pieces of the capital stack until it eventually becomes the single-source solution for operators’ funding needs.