Tagged: housing market

September 30, 2023 @ 3:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The U.S. housing market has rebounded strongly in 2023 after a short-lived downturn late last year. The total value of the U.S. housing market has surged by more than $2.6 trillion over the past year, a new Zillow (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) analysis shows. The… Read More

August 8, 2021 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Yair Benyamini, CEO and Co-Founder of Lendai. Founded during the COVID-19 crisis, the disruptive digital-first lender allows foreign and non-resident investors to buy US properties through an online mortgage approval process that takes around one week. According to Lendai, this is… Read More

July 25, 2021 @ 12:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

According to the Nationwide House Price Index in the UK, the price of the average house in the country surged by 13.4% YoY in June 2021, which is the largest increase seen in more than 17 years – since November 2004, the Blend Network team… Read More

May 27, 2021 @ 6:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Blend Network, an online P2P lender, reveals that April 2021 saw the largest monthly rise in United Kingdom’s house prices since February 2004. According to the Nationwide House Price Index, average UK house prices increased by 2.1% in April compared to March after the… Read More

April 27, 2021 @ 6:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Blend Network, an online P2P lender, reveals that the average UK house prices “grew by 5.7% year-on-year in March.” Blend Network added in its latest property market report that activity has slowed down from December 2020’s 6-year high growth of 7.3% year-on-year. But price… Read More

April 3, 2021 @ 8:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK-based Blend Network, an online P2P lender, notes that after a “short-lived” slowdown, the United Kingdom annual house price growth managed to recover with “renewed vigor” in February 2021. Blend Network writes in a blog post that January 2021 saw price growth… Read More

March 13, 2021 @ 5:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK-based Blend Network, an online P2P lender, notes that today’s “online” or digital world has made it easy for us to engage in e-commerce, work online or remotely, and even make investments via Internet-based platforms. Blend Network confirms that they’ll be conducting… Read More

March 1, 2021 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Online peer-to-peer lender Blend Network notes that the UK was the world’s first country to authorize and begin administering the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on December 8, 2020. The vaccine had been on track to immunize 15 million individuals by February 15, 2020. The immunization efforts have… Read More

May 27, 2020 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mumbai-based Home Capital, a Fintech firm focused on supporting housing initiatives for younger people, has acquired seed funding via a round led by the Varanium NextGen Fund. Shalin Shah, Singapore Angel Network, JITO Incubation and Innovation Foundation, Venture Catalysts, and Venture Gurukool also took part… Read More