Green Finance

We hear a lot about "flipping houses" these days, and there are all kinds of shows on television about it, but can it be as easy as it looks? Flipping a house is when a real-estate investor (the buyer) buys a home that is in foreclosure (really cheap or usually at an auction), fixes it up, and resells the house at a great profit! There is a ton of money to be made in house flipping, but beware. You need to put the effort into educating yourself before you begin because a few common mistakes can cost you big time!

A recent report by the research group Massolution opines that crowdfunding and P2P investors injected $1 billion into the US real estate market in 2014 and that the number will double in 2015. New debt participation structures and an increased access to non-US investors are cited as two reasons.