Valuation Issues for an Evolving Housing Market

whitePaper | February 28, 2023

CoFund is a revolutionary investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in high-value real estate properties in a safe, compliant, and transparent manner. The platform leverages blockchain technology to tokenize assets and securitize them as investment opportunities that are accessible to a wider audience.

whitePaper | June 12, 2022

Real estate has been the single most prominent store of value throughout human history. Although we have seen changing forms of tender gold, paper money, internet ledgers real estate has remained the same, without decomposing its value. The growth of humankind has resulted in the booming demand for real estate investment. From 2000 to 2020, almost all net worth was marked by the household sector, resulting from growth in equity and real estate value. According to McKinsey, today's real estate holds a 67% share of the global net worth, and approximately 20% is stored in other fixed assets. Real estate is expected to reach 5.4 billion USD in 2026 (46% of CAGR over 4 years).

whitePaper | December 12, 2022

Private real estate outperformed most sectors globally in 2022, rewarding investors who continued to increase their allocations to the sector over the last decade. However, we expect to see pockets of softness in 2023, including value losses in some markets and sectors. But even as the market slows, opportunities will remain in commercial real estate.

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 | May 19, 2022

Over the past 12 months, the pace of inflation has accelerated faster than any other year-over-year period since the Reagan Administration. In March 2022, consumer prices had shot up a staggering 8.5 percent compared to the year prior – with no signs of slowing down.

whitePaper | November 10, 2022

The U.S. Department of Labor defines inflation as “the overall general upward price movement of goods and services in an economy.” When we wrote our inflation piece in the summer of 2021, many economists and politicians were characterizing inflation as transitory. A year later, inflation has started to take hold in key areas of the market which will have an impact on how real estate investors should view their current and prospective investment. The annual inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has been 7.5% or higher since January of this year, peaking at 9.05% in June.