CrowdSeekr has been around for less than a year and is developing a powerful tool for discovering real estate crowdfunding investment opportunities from multiple platforms.
Crowdfunding seems like a natural fit for the real estate market. According to investopedia.com, “crowdfunding makes use of the easy accessibility of vast networks of friends, family and colleagues through social media websites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to get the word out about a new business and attract investors.”
In that regard, crowdfunding has the potential to increase entrepreneurship by expanding the pool of investors from whom funds can be raised beyond the traditional circle of owners, relatives and venture capitalists.
But the playing field is filling up fast. Industry experts point out that in the US alone, there are currently over 150 real estate related crowdfunding sites. It is estimated that by 2020 this will be a 220 billion dollar industry.
That said, CrowdSeekr (headquartered in Oklahoma) is banking on developing a powerful tool for discovering real estate crowdfunding investment opportunities from multiple platforms. Investors will be able to use CrowdSeekr’s advanced search tools to identify real estate crowdfunding projects that meet their investment criteria.
According to a recent investopedia article, CrowdSeekr creates a powerful marketing channel for real estate crowdfunding platforms by reaching more investors than they could have otherwise acquired by themselves. CrowdSeekr follows suit, and allows investors to conduct customized searches across multiple crowdfunding platforms. Investors will benefit from a site that offers many deals in one place and robust search options.
One thing that industry experts are wary of is the undercapitalization of many crowdfunding startups. In fact, to get started with crowdfunding in real estate, say many real estate professionals, the trick is going with a firm that’s going to be around for a while.
In other words, work with a crowdfunding company that will survive. That means well-capitalized. What scares many industry professionals is the number of crowdfunding companies out there that are headed up by two students who just graduated from college, and who aren’t capitalized themselves.
Crowdseekr doesn’t seem to have that problem. According to crowdfunder.com, Tim Strange, the co-Founder of CrowdSeekr.com is a thirty-year veteran of commercial real estate brokerage, investments and sponsorship having closed over $1 billion in transactions. Strange is also the president of the largest Rotary club in the world. Strange has sold and leased more than 7 million square feet in transactions valued at almost $1 Billion.
If time is money, as the old saying goes, then the ensuing New Year will tell if Crowdseekr has the right stuff to make it in today’s crowdfunding market.
Nearly three decades living and working all over the world as a radio and television broadcast journalist in the United States Air Force, Staff Writer, Gary Picariello is now retired from the military and is focused on his writing career.
