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There are various ways to invest in real estate via crowdfunding. Typically, the investors have acted directly as a lender. The mezzanine capital required by a project developer, or borrower, was put together out of a number of smaller loan amounts (of a maximum of 10,000 euros) from private investors. A newer approach is the purchase of loan receivables, based on a secured bank loan. This article explains how exactly this works and what the advantages are for the investor.

Anyone seeking advice on investing money relies more on an independent advisor than on a bank employee – after all, the latter are responsible for marketing the bank’s own products. Scientists from the USA have found in a study that this is not always a good decision. This is because independent advisors often make the same mistakes when investing money as lay people.

Ulrich Schüppler asked Michael Stephan about blockchain technology in the real estate industry. Read here the key messages of this interview.