Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa September 2013 | Page 66
USA
the really wealthy and the cars were built
bespokely. Henry Ford came along, created
mass production and said, “You can have any
colour you like as long as it was black.” The
Model T Ford revolutionised the transportation
industry and made transportation available
to the middle class. Wealth Migrate is doing
exactly the same to international, commercial
and local property, allowing everyone to create
global wealth through property and it will
revolutionise property forever!
Still, across tens of thousands of projects and
investments, the total funding can really add
up. In the past five years, the 30 largest lending
portals raised more than $1.5 billion. The largest
reward platforms collected nearly half a billion
dollars cumulatively. Donation sites raised
hundreds of millions of dollars. Venture capital
portals raised just tens of millions of dollars, but
that number is expected to rise dramatically in
the near future. In aggregate, crowdfunding
portals are already a multi-billion dollar industry,
growing at more than 50 percent a year.
Donald Trump joined the industry in 2013 as
he funded a crowd-sourced portal called Fund
Anything. This shows the maturity of the market
and how quickly the industry has adapted.
In 2013 the legislation in the USA has
now changed and allows investors to have a
equity stake. This is perfect for property and
allows Wealth Migrate to provide the first
International Crowd Funded Property portal.
Basically the analogy is the same as motor
cars. Before Henry Ford, cars were only for
Wealth Migrate’s mission is to provide a
global, self-service, crowdfunding property
solution, which takes advantage of local
propert y markets, through best of breed
partners and collective buying power. This
will be optimised by a Global IT Platform,
providing transparency and eff iciency of
property markets!
Basically a simple solution