“The success of our crypto mortgage over the past few months serves as a testament to our ability to pioneer and create a unique solution for the crypto community,” said Josip Rupena, founder and CEO of Milo. “We have incredible momentum and see a fundamental need to help individuals diversify their wealth to generate real world yield through real estate. In today’s volatile environment, our crypto mortgage is an excellent solution for clients who wish to continue to own crypto and invest in real estate, all while keeping the potential price appreciation of both.”

Earlier this year, Milo became the first to offer a mortgage that bridges the world of digital assets with traditional finance by allowing investors to qualify with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC. To purchase property, clients can pledge their crypto with regulated and insured custodians (Gemini and Coinbase) and finance up to 100% of their purchase with no down payment required. Those who qualify can take advantage of low interest rates and a 30-year crypto mortgage up to $5 million.

“Bridging the gap between traditional finance and crypto is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle to make cryptocurrency and blockchain more ubiquitous in our daily lives,” said Miami Mayor Francis Suarez. “With their mortgage product, Milo has already proven that the future of finance will serve to build wealth just like the financial tools of the past.”

Real estate is a critical component to build wealth over time and many crypto consumers have been denied the opportunity and have resorted to riskier ways of generating yield as a result.

“Given the current state of the market, we’re extremely proud that we have not had any margin calls or negative counterparty exposure, all while continuing to originate mortgages,” said Rupena. “As a licensed and regulated entity, we take our responsibility seriously to ensure our clients’ crypto is safe and returned when requested. Milo has added over 20 team members since launch and we look forward to releasing an exciting crypto refinance and non-rehypothecation option shortly.”

During this time, Milo has also provided thousands of borrowers with crypto mortgage pre-qualifications, designed to preemptively let borrowers know how much they can afford. The company’s other mortgage solution for U.S. and foreign nationals has already originated over $100 million in loans and has seen applicants from over 90 countries. Milo is a direct lender that is licensed, audited, insured and can stand behind its commitment to lend to its clients with certainty of closing.

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“Advocacy requires more than thought leadership,” said Ray Sturm, co-founder and CEO of AlphaFlow. “It demands action. AAPL and AlphaFlow are stepping up here to provide unprecedented access to institutional-quality data and deliver the industry’s top talent to share best practices and foster an active learning environment in private lending.”

Local private lenders have become the lifeblood of residential real estate investing. Real estate developers have increasingly turned to these lenders to fund their projects, and over the last decade, their role in the U.S. residential real estate industry has exploded. The fastest growing lenders have focused on expanding tomorrow’s market more than beating today’s competition.

“For more than a decade, AAPL has brought timely, actionable private lending news and education to our audience,” said Linda Hyde, managing director of AAPL. “We’ve found that collaboration earns the best ideas and growth potential for our membership and the industry, and look forward to reaching new and greater horizons through our partnership with AlphaFlow.”

Through this partnership, the two companies are launching a monthly seminar open to the public, to feature leading subject matter experts from across the industry. “We are at ground level in development and learning in the private lending space,” said Dana Georgiou, Senior Vice President of Lender Partnerships at AlphaFlow. “If we can empower lenders with information on how to grow their businesses to whatever their next level is, in what will feel like personal coaching sessions, then we have something to celebrate!”

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Under the USDA’s OneRD Guarantee Loan Initiative, X-Caliber Rural Capital will provide financing for rural business and economic development projects under four flagship programs:

• Water and Waste Disposal Guaranteed Loan Program
• Community Facilities Guaranteed Loan Program
• Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan Program
• Rural Energy for America Guaranteed Loan Program

The USDA defines rural as any town, village, city, or other population center with a threshold of 50,000 or less and not contiguous with another populated area. Depending on the program, loan sizes will range between $250,000 and $100MM and will be available for new construction, acquisition, and refinance transactions.

Industry veteran and Co-Founder, Jordan Blanchard, has been named Executive Manager of X-Caliber Rural Capital and will lead the daily business and operations. Blanchard has more than thirty years of experience in Small Business Administration (SBA) and USDA lending and is the current President of National Rural Lenders’ Roundtable.

During his successful career, Blanchard helped develop the nation’s number one USDA lending program and created funding for over $1B of USDA and renewable transactions. Overall, he has been involved in $2B of financing under various forms of government guaranteed loan programs.

X-Caliber Capital President and CEO and X-Caliber Rural Capital Co-Founder, Chris Callahan, said, “This new platform is a natural fit for X-Caliber Capital’s commitment to bringing its clients diverse lending solutions while improving the quality of life and economic development in rural areas. With Jordan’s proven track record and having him at the helm of the ship, we expect this platform to become a core part of our business model and look forward to building out our pipeline.”

“X-Caliber Rural Capital will bring borrowers unique and attractive terms for clients looking for longer-term lending solutions while also providing notable benefits to those businesses and groups that are located in rural areas designated by the USDA programs,” said Blanchard. “I am truly pleased to be a part of the X-Caliber Capital brand and team and I look forward to helping strategically grow this business to new and impactful levels.”

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SitusAMC, one of the largest independent, rated commercial real estate primary and special servicers in Europe, announced the expansion of the firm’s servicing business in Europe to include corporate direct debt, infrastructure and social housing loans. SitusAMC currently services 67 billion euros in commercial real estate loans with assets located in 18 countries through Europe for banks, insurance companies, funds, and private equity firms.  Alfonso Pagano has been hired as Director, reporting to SitusAMC’s Executive Managing Director and Head of Europe, Lisa Williams, and will oversee the new business segment.

In addition to loan servicing, SitusAMC also provides loan asset management, loan advisory and valuation services to its clients in Europe. With the expansion, SitusAMC will offer loan agency and loan administration services for corporate, infrastructure and social housing related loans.

“Many of our European clients also provide corporate lending through direct lending platforms,” said Williams. “As organisations look to streamline their operations with partners who can provide more comprehensive support, we saw an opportunity to leverage our proven experience in commercial real estate debt to provide a more efficient and effective way for to service a broader range of loans, including direct debt.”

Pagano, who joined the firm on July 29, brings more than 15 years of experience in servicing debt, including leadership roles at top global financial institutions such as BNP Paribas Securities Services, The Bank of New York Mellon and ABN AMRO. Most recently, Pagano worked as a commercial director in the capital markets services team at TMF Group. He has a master’s degree in international economics and currency markets from Parthenope University in Italy.

“This is a great opportunity to be a part of the expansion of SitusAMC’s servicing business into corporate loan servicing. SitusAMC has a strong reputation in the market, a passionate team of experts, and a client list that includes some of the leading organisations in the region,” stated Pagano. “I look forward to leading SitusAMC’s entry into this new service offering and delivering value for everyone we proudly serve.”

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The tokenization platform combines the values of a decentralized blockchain network along with the contributing features of the utility token, in this case, digitization of real estate assets to facilitate fractional ownership.

“Blockchain integration within the real estate sector expands the spectrum of opportunities for both the industry insiders as well as the common investors. The concept of asset tokenization is a great avenue for investors who are interested in buying property but do not have the means to cross that high capital barrier, that until blockchain had restricted real estate investments. Real estate tokenization and trade through a scalable platform such as ours, allows investors to buy property in a foreign land without much of a hassle,” commented Raj Chowdhury, CEO, HashCash Consultants.

• The concept of Real Estate Tokenization:

The main takeaway from asset tokenization of real estate is the facilitation of fractional ownership. Real estate tokenization allows a property to be divided into multiple shares each amounting to an equal value. It enables the disintegration of ownership allowing the investors especially the ones with minimal capital to diverse lucrative investment opportunities. The profit gets divided as per the market value of the estate.

• HashCash’s Offerings through Real Estate Tokenization Platform:

HashCash has built a highly scalable and agile real estate tokenization platform over its native blockchain network HC Net that executes the process of asset digitization and sale. There are multiple steps involved in the process such as:

1. Determining the properties to be digitized
2. Defining the legal structure of the process that includes project financing, real estate funding, SPV, REIT, etc
3. Documenting the rights of the shareholders and selecting the investor type
4. Selection of technology such as blockchain, tokenization, KYC/AML (globalized), etc.
5. Creation of token and distribution

HashCash’s real estate tokenization platform is powered by cutting-edge features that ensure:

1. High volume liquidity of assets facilitating smooth buying and selling of property
2. Fractional ownership of a property by splitting the value of the shares and the ownership reducing maintenance, taxation and other costs for the owners
3. Global investment opportunities within the real estate industry
4. Zero need for third-party intermediaries, due to peer-to-peer transactions, reducing surplus expenses associated with real estate investments
5. Immutability through blockchain making each transaction that happens tamper-proof and traceable

Powered by blockchain technology, each transaction and documentation that takes place over the tokenization platform gets executed instantly, with permanent and accessible records of the same on a shared ledger.

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Spark Real Estate is led by top-producing agent David Haghighi, who has a decades-long reputation for getting fast results and steering his clients in the right direction. With a background in marketing and business law, as well as construction expertise, Haghighi believes that real estate is the best way to build wealth and establish a legacy. To date, he’s served more than 250 families in Carlsbad, San Marcos, Escondido, and San Diego.

Partnering with Side will ensure Spark Real Estate remains at the forefront of an evolving real estate market, while allowing its agents to continue delivering premium services to their clients. Spark Real Estate agents are fully supported by a one-of-a-kind premium brokerage platform, which provides transaction management, property marketing, lead generation, business growth opportunities, vendor management, and infrastructure solutions.

“The Spark team is comprised of energetic allies dedicated to helping clients make sound investments that deliver for generations to come,” Haghighi said. “Teaming up with Side to manage and optimize our back-end operations just made sense, because it allows us to use our time to remain laser-focused on servicing clients.”

Side is led by experienced industry professionals and world-class engineers who develop technology designed to improve agent productivity and enhance the client experience. Based on its belief that homeownership is a fundamental human right, Side is on a mission to improve the public good by providing top-performing real estate agents, teams and indie brokerages with the best system, support, service, experience, and results.

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Work culture has evolved in recent years including the ways in which people perform their jobs and the strategies businesses employ. In the world of commercial real estate, daily work has also transformed requiring multiple platforms and channels which property owners must use to manage properties or workflow and stay connected with their teams. Multitasking between these various applications and industry tools remotely can result in both confusion and a feeling of being overwhelmed by multiple logins and an inability to work in a single space. RealDash provides users with an all-in-one cloud-based software platform that streamlines processes for commercial real estate professionals and increases productivity for both individuals and teams by combining powerful features all in one place available from anywhere.

RealDash offers a fully customizable set of features with a dashboard that visualizes portfolios, leases, team activity, and key metrics in a simplified view making it easy for users to ensure efficient asset management. New features include: Lease abstracts and administration, capital stack management and the integration of add-on tools to connect broker leasing and sales efforts in a single platform for real-time information. With access from desktop or their stunning mobile app, the tools allow access to data and reporting/analytics features for full transparency to clients, partners, and investors easier. By putting all the tools in a single platform, users can collaborate with ease and integrate workflow and data sources, such as DropBox to put all their decision making in one place.

“RealDash saves us both time and money by integrating what’s important at our company. We can access key information on our property from everywhere and our processes have been fully digitized.” Said Adam, a property owner based in Orlando. “The leasing and owner tools are great allowing us to automate processes and track progress in real time from our phones.”

The platform was developed through a collaboration of real estate professionals and computer scientists looking to bring commercial real estate companies into the modern digital age. Owners can add on Leasing and Sales tools to transform their marketing through the proprietary RealDash Builder which enables website creation and management, brochure design and the development of targeted Leasing, Financing and Sales email campaigns with access to thousands of verified contacts in order to market properties and connect with property professionals. RealDash also enhances team collaboration when it comes to managing property leases and rent rolls, viewing lease abstracts and accessing documents, coordinating team tasks, connecting stakeholders and integrating deals on the road.

Demos can be scheduled through the RealDash website. The cutting-edge, cloud-based solution integrates beyond asset management with leasing, sales and mortgage banking users actively using tools to enhance productivity.

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To date, GPR Ventures’ portfolio includes 59 industrial and office buildings, totaling over 1.8 million square feet, and an additional 26 acres of land. Within the Sacramento Region, GPR Ventures owns and manages 20 properties in Natomas, Roseville, Rancho Cordova and other surrounding areas. In November 2019, GPR Ventures acquired a 26,500 square foot office building in the R Street corridor of downtown Sacramento and has begun complete interior and exterior renovations.

“Merlot Marketing has deep experience in elevating the presence and authority of their clients on a local and national level, and it has been great to leverage their creativity, knowledge and expertise to expand the GPR Ventures story within Sacramento,” said Phil Rolla, GPR Ventures co-founder and Managing Principal.

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“GPR Ventures is contributing greatly to the growth and prosperity of Sacramento’s commercial real estate market, and they are innovative in their approach. We are excited to share their brand story both locally and nationally,” said Debi Hammond, founder and CEO of Merlot Marketing.

In close collaboration with GPR Ventures, Merlot Marketing will manage all facets of public relations as well as provide ongoing marketing consultation. The agency will publicize the company’s projects through Social Media News Releases (SMNR), wire distributions and trend articles targeted to key Sacramento trade and business media.

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“We are delighted to welcome these six new clients over the last 90 days,” said Robert Cowes, President and CEO of SmartTouch® Interactive. “Their decision to implement our NexGen CRM and Marketing Automation platform further validates that home builders and real estate developers want a solution designed specifically for this marketplace with intuitive workflows and lead nurturing technology that effectively engages the home buyer through to conversion. And with an efficient and effective turnkey implementation process that accelerates time to market, we make it easy for our clients to leverage our extensive experience allowing them to yield ROI quickly.”

The new SmartTouch® Interactive clients are from Texas and Florida, all with slightly different projects that require a home builder and real estate developer focused CRM system that can easily meet their individual needs.

Two of the new clients, Pomona and Wolf Ranch, are new master plan communities from the leading Dallas-based developer, Hillwood Communities, a Perot Company. Each selected SmartTouch® Interactive to provide managed CRM services for their marketing teams. Pomona is a beautiful new 1,000 acres and 2,000 single-family homes master-planned community in Manvel, TX, on the Mustang Bayou. Wolf Ranch is a unique master-planned community in Georgetown, TX tucked into the stunning Hill Country landscape alongside the San Gabriel River. Both are working with the experts at SmartTouch® team to automate lead generation, aggregate, and distribute leads to builder sales teams and gain greater insight into sales and marketing performance.

“We are highly impressed with the robust capabilities the SmartTouch® system offers and all it enables for our marketing teams, including automating our digital marketing and managing our lead generation, distribution, nurturing, and reporting,” commented Russell Bynum, General Manager, Hillwood Houston. “Our teams really appreciated the ability to leverage the system as a managed service, allowing us to quickly benefit from the solution without having to spend a lot of time learning how to use it. We can simply login, view our dashboard, and easily report on our key metrics, freeing us to focus on our core responsibility, developing our community.”

Vintage Estate Homes is a luxury custom home builder in Florida and Austin Texas communities known for its unique living spaces that blend contemporary lifestyle plans and technology with traditional quality craftsmanship that create an extraordinary lifestyle. Vintage Estates is using SmartTouch® NexGen CRM to provide their sales team with a lead management solution that aggregates their leads in one place and streamline follow up and lead nurturing.

VeraLux Homes, a homebuilder in the DFW area known for its bold, stylish, and cosmopolitan homes, has been building exceptional new homes for more than 35 years. VeraLux is using SmartTouch NexGen CRM and marketing automation to enable their sales and marketing teams to better tag, score, and communicate with leads instantly and effectively.

Preservation Ranch, a new luxury ranch conservation community in Bee Cave, TX with ranches for sale near Austin, has chosen the SmartTouch® NextGen CRM platform as a managed service to power sales and marketing workflows to capture, score, tag, and notify its sales team of home buyer interest and conversions. SmartTouch® also developed the community’s new brand, design and launch their website, SEO, and for comprehensive digital marketing programs.

Blue Horse Building + Design has been providing residential remodeling Austin and new home construction services with a focus on architecturally unique, durable, and efficient homes with exceptional interior design the Austin, TX area for 18 years. Blue Horse will use the SmartTouch NexGen platform for sales and marketing automation.

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“We are incredibly proud of our many affiliated agents and teams recognized in this year’s REAL Trends ‘The Thousand’ ranking,” said Ryan Schneider, Realogy’s chief executive officer and president. “In this industry, it’s all about the people—their relationships, integrity and quality of service—paired with the unique advantages that only we can create: great brands, powerful marketing tools, leading tech and data, national partnerships, and strong new consumer products.”

Agents and teams affiliated with Realogy’s brands, which include Better Homes and Gardens^® Real Estate, CENTURY 21^®, Coldwell Banker^®, Corcoran^®, ERA^® and Sotheby’s International Realty^®, are once again recognized the most of any other real estate company, with their performance highlighted in twelve categories of excellence focused on transaction and volume results.

Highlights regarding agents and teams affiliated with a Realogy brand include:

• 38% of the Top 250 Agents by Sales Volume (96)
  • Sotheby’s International Realty was recognized the most of all other real estate companies with 52 agents, followed by Coldwell Banker (21), Corcoran (16) and CENTURY 21 (7)
    
    
• 41% of the Top 255 Agents by Transaction Sides (105)
  • Coldwell Banker was recognized with 45 agents, followed by CENTURY 21 (40), ERA (12), Sotheby’s International Realty (4), Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate (3) and Corcoran (1)
    
    
• 16% of the Top 198 Teams by Sales Volume (31)
  
  
• 15% of the Top 198 Teams by Transaction Sides (30)
  • Amanda & Kyla Team, ERA-All In One Realty hold the No. 1 rank for small transactions

“All of Realogy’s brands were represented well in this year’s The Thousand, with agents and teams affiliated with Realogy brokerage firms making up 265 of those ranked in one of the 12 categories of performance,” said Steve Murray, President, REAL Trends. “Clearly, Realogy and its affiliated brands Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, CENTURY 21, Coldwell Banker, Corcoran, ERA and Sotheby’s International Realty continue to attract the best talent among real estate sales professionals in the country.”

According to REAL Trends, REAL Trends + Tom Ferry “The Thousand” is an annual, national awards ranking sponsored by REAL Trends—the Trusted Source—and Tom Ferry International coaching, advertised in The Wall Street Journal. Designees are recognized as the top one-tenth of one percent of more than 1.4 million licensed Realtors^® nationwide. The full report is available here.

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