Offer a new form of low risk investment to savers, alternative, complementary or supplementary to that of traditional finance, while creating new business development opportunities for real estate companies and restoring beauty to the country's real estate assets. These are some advantages of Trusters, the first Italian real estate lending crowdfunding platform, which launched a capital increase three weeks ago with the aim of raising € 1 million to strengthen its growth path.
Founded in Milan at the end of 2017 and operational since the end of 2018, Trusters now has around 3 thousand registered users and in two years has raised over 5 million euros for a total of 51 funded projects, of which 15 reimbursed. The innovative technological platform, which includes the use of the blockchain among its specificities, offers various investment opportunities both to small investors and professional investors, builders, agencies and real estate consultants. For investors, the company explains, the advantage is that of "investing in already selected properties, with a minimum ticket of 100 euros, a return on investment within 12-15 months and attractive rates of return", while, developers allow to "finance part of the debt investment, access loans with high frequency and reduce bureaucracy". Real estate transactions are selected by the Trusters team, which admits "only operators with solidity and reliability requirements", and it is possible to monitor investments from smartphones or from the home computer by communicating in real time with a team of professionals who support and manage the communuty of investors. "The covid has put a strain on the financial markets, real estate, on the other hand, has shown itself to be an asset class less vulnerable to strong fluctuations, withstanding the crisis and continuing to represent a valid form of investment in response to the needs, even more felt in this period of enhancement of savings and assets - says the founder of Trusters, Andrea Maffi. "This is demonstrated by our community of over 3000 users, in continuous growth, which in the average annual yield offered (equal to 8.77%) and well 15 repayments already made, finds wide satisfaction ". On the other hand, the platform" opens up new opportunities for business development to the interested real estate companies which, to date, in a year and a half of operation, are well 20. Finally, it allows to restore beauty to the real estate assets of cities, suburbs and the territory, also from a green oriented perspective, in a phase in which the enhancement of the territory is essential for the economic development of the Country".
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