Digitising Real Estate Ownerships

whitePaper | February 28, 2023

Mid-last year, Elion Partners, LLC (“Elion”) announced further development to Elion Intelligence (“E.I.”), its proprietary technology platform for data-informed real estate investments and operations. This additional enhancement came in the form of Elion’s April 2022 strategic absorption of White Peak Tech, a technology and data consulting company focused on analytics, data engineering, machine learning, and software development. Here, Elion’s Director of Data Science, Jared Stufft, discusses what makes E.I. powerful, how the Elion team is leveraging its capabilities, and how E.I. differentiates the firm as a tech-enabled investment manager.

whitePaper | December 12, 2022

We are halfway through 2022 and home lending has swiftly shifted in a direction that many didn’t predict. U.S. mortgage rates have soared above 5%, ARM volume accounts for more than 20% of all mortgage refinance and purchases transactions. Home equity volume is up more than 40% from 2021.

whitePaper | August 22, 2022

In September 2021, the Journal of Portfolio Management released its Special Real Estate Issue where its authors examined the historical performance of real estate private equity funds over a 20-year period (1999-2019).

whitePaper | May 7, 2022

Real estate has always been a reliable way of storing value throughout history. It has gained popularity not only as a store of value but also as an income source over the last decades generating income for it’s owners. Although it is a secure way of storing value as an asset, it has become more difficult to obtain and invest in due to extensive paperwork, middlemans. It’s fast growing market capitalization led to a higher minimum entry barrier. It has gotten harder for the lower and middle class to become a homeowner dooming the working class to rent or a lifetime of mortgage payments.

whitePaper | November 30, 2022

Touchless Lending™ is a reality today for many consumer loan products, including auto, student, and personal loans, but is not for the $4 trillion mortgage origination market1 . Achieving Touchless Lending™ for mortgage is now more important than ever before. Home refinancings and purchases have experienced a significant uplift in activity, and mortgage providers are scrambling to keep up. This has resulted in numerous industry-wide challenges, most notably a shortage in availability of underwriter talent.

whitePaper | August 5, 2021

Real assets are tangible, physical assets that have an inherent value deriving from their attributes and usefulness. The asset class includes commodities, land, precious metals, real estate, equipment and machinery, and natural resources. Occasionally, this definition is expanded to include an element of inflation protection, in which case financial assets such as Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) can also be included in the list. Private real assets also come with their own distinct challenges. They are typically illiquid and most suitable for institutional investors with a longer time horizon. Additionally, physical ownership of private assets such as those mentioned above requires a certain degree of operational expertise. Taking all of this into account, developing an optimal allocation to private real assets can become a complex process.