The first national conference on “Real Estate Equity Crowdfunding: International Experiences, New Norms and Prospects” took place in Venice on November 16th. There were major operators, including Crowdre.it, WeAreStarting.it, Walliance.eu, Housers.com, Metrumcoin.com,
Raynaud Studio Legale, Harley Dikkinson e IL PUNTO/CORFAC International.
“From the remarkable potentialities and significant continuous growth according to the researches developed by the European Community – declares Antonio Campagnoli, Founder Partner of IL PUNTO / CORFAC International and President of FIABCI Italia-, the sector now embraces three important aspects, the first linked to peer to peer lending, the second to speculative equity crowdfunding, the third to social equity crowdfunding. In the near future, the Bank may no longer be the only active entity in the financing of real estate projects, but it will be possible the partecipation to the operations with the purchase of risk capital through web platforms authorized by CONSOB. The figures of the professional “developer” or “arranger“, typical of the American market, could now access the medium-small Italian real estate sector and, furthermore, we could reformulate our post-war cooperative experiences with a modern vision based on “sharing economy” and “sustainability“.
The contribution of Alternative Finance (R & D) for the development of research and innovation (R & I) in the European Community has exceeded € 755million in 2016. Recent new norms are part of the government’s most big attempt of promoting bank disbursement, alongside legislation on mini-bonds, financial bills, direct lending by Fia or Spv active in securitization and current social lending based crowdfunding (governed by the Bank of Italy’s decision of 09.11.2016 and in force since 01.01.2017).”
“Italian real estate – continues Antonio Campagnoli – could derive from equity crowdfunding a huge benefit similar to what has been happening in recent years in the United States, where they have been collected, limiting ourselves to the brick, $ 2.5 billion in 2015 and $ 3.5 billion in 2016. In addition, it could well marry and implement the guidelines set out in the New Urban Agenda approved by the United Nations General Assembly on December 23th 2016, where point 15 (c) (IV) reads: “supporting effective, innovative and sustainable financing frameworks and instruments enabling strengthened municipal finance and local fiscal system in order to create, sustain and share the value generated by sustainable urban development in an inclusive manner”, thereby becoming the real estate promoter of a sustainable economy based also on the sharing economy, where crowdfunding is a tassello along with modern forms of t use urban erritory including co-working and co-housing.”
The event was organized by FIABCI Italia with the support of E-Valuations. Promedil and Banco delle Tre Venezie.
