Cash-offer startup Homeward scores $371M in funding

The funding is split between $136 million in equity and $235 million in debt and will go toward expanding the company’s scale. Continue reading

Blackstone CEO predicts increasing demand for urban real estate

Stephen Schwarzman shares lessons he learned from the recession and being the one-time largest owner of single-family real estate in the country. Continue reading

Vulture investors are scooping up defaulted real estate debt in China

Several large firms have invested more than $3B in nonperforming Chinese commercial loans, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Continue reading

Real estate fundraising plunges to lowest level since 2013

The amount of capital raised by real estate private equity funds shrunk from $35 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018 to $18 billion in 2019. Continue reading