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Download (2MB) Dipartimento di Impresa e Management Cattedra di Management of Innovation “Crowdfunding in Real Estate: do Real Estate Crowdfunding Platforms really know what moves the crowd?” RELATORE Prof.ssa Leone Maria Isabella CANDIDATO Mucedola Matteo Pio MATRICOLA 709551 CORRELATORE Prof. Peruffo Enzo ANNO ACCADEMICO 2019/2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 1) OPEN INNOVATION 4 1.1) WHAT IS OPEN INNOVATION 4 1.1.1) From “Innovation” to “Open Innovation” 4 1.1.2) Open Innovation: characteristics, drawbacks and benefits 5 1.1.3) From “Search” to “Broadcast Search”: applicative models 8 1.2) CROWDFUNDING: CHARACTERISTICS 10 1.2.1) Definition 10 1.2.2) A journey on the crowdfunding history: from offline to online 12 1.2.3) Crowdfunding models: classification 14 1.2.4) A crowd analysis: motivation for participation 17 1.3) ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF CROWDFUNDING 20 1.4) CROWDFUNDING APPLICATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM THE MARKET 24 1.4.1) Crowdfunding market analysis 24 1.4.2) Main players 27 2) CROWDFUNDING IN THE REAL ESTATE MARKET 28 2.1) WHAT IS THE REAL ESTATE MARKET? 28 2.1.1) Definition and main classification 28 2.1.2) Real Estate Cash Flows and Relevant Factors 29 2.2) NEW TECHHNOLOGIES IMPLEMENTATION IN REAL ESTATE 32 2.2.1) From “Innovation Identification” to “Innovation Implementation” 32 2.2.2) Digitization 33 2.2.3) Data Management 34 2.2.4) Artificial Intelligence 35 2.2.5) Digital Reality 36 2.2.6) Cybersecurity and Privacy 37 2.3) CROWDFUNDING IN REAL ESTATE MARKET 38 2.3.1) From “Real Estate” to “Real Estate Crowdfunding”: Historical Steps 38 2.3.2) Real Estate Crowdfunding Classification 40 2.3.3) Crowdfunding Real Estate Platforms Common Elements 42 2.4) RESEARCH QUESTIONS 44 3) REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY OVERVIEW 46 3.1) HISTORY OF THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY 46 3.1.1) History of the U.S. Real Estate Market 46 3.1.2) History of the U.E. Real Estate Market 48 3.2) US VS UE: 2020 REAL ESTATE MARKET OVERVIEW 50 3.2.1) U.S. Real Estate Industry 2020 50 3.2.2) U.E. Real Estate Industry 2020 53 3.3) US VS UE: REAL ESTATE LEGAL FRAMEWORK 58 3.3.1) UE Real Estate Legal Framework 58 3.3.2) US Real Estate Legal Framework 62 3.4) REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TYPES 66 3.4.1) REITs 66 3.4.2) Investing in Rental Properties 68 3.4.3) Residential Property Flipping 69 3.4.4) Wholesaling Houses 70 3.4.5) Real Estate Mutual Funds 70 3.4.6) Real Estate ETF 71 4) REAL ESTATE CROWDFUNDING INDUSTRY OVERVIEW 73 4.1) REAL ESTATE CROWDFUDING PERFORMANCE 73 4.1.1) U.S. Real Estate Crowdfunding Performance 73 4.1.2) E.U. Real Estate Crowdfunding Performance 74 4.2) MAIN COMPANIES OPERATING IN THE INDUSTRY 75 4.2.1) U.S. Real Estate Crowdfunding Platforms 75 4.2.1.1) Fundrise 75 4.2.1.2) Crowdstreet 76 4.2.1.3) Prodigy Network 76 4.2.1.4) RealtyMogul 77 4.2.2) E.U. Real Estate Crowdfunding Platforms 78 4.2.2.1) Crowdestate 78 4.2.2.2) Housers 78 4.2.2.3) Reinvest24 79 4.2.2.4) Bulkestate 80 4.2.3) Other Relevant Real Estate Crowdfunding Platforms 80 4.3) ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF REAL ESTATE CROWDFUDING: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 4.3.1) Advantages of RECF 80 4.3.1.1) Lower costs for higher returns 80 4.3.1.2) Stronger transparency 81 4.3.1.3) Broader range of investors 81 4.3.1.4) Enhanced Reporting for Users 82 4.3.1.5) Greater Diversification 82 4.3.2) Disadvantages of RECF 82 4.3.2.1) Risk level and investor expertise 83 4.3.2.2) Lack of liquidity 83 4.3.2.3) Lack of Due Diligence 84 4.3.2.4) Regularity chaos 84 4.3.2.5) Lack of personal relationships 85 5) RESEARCH ANALYSIS 85 5.1) METHOD 85 5.1.1) Research methodology 86 5.1.2) Sample description 88 5.2) RESULTS 89 5.3) DISCUSSION 94 CONCLUSION 100 BIBLIOGRAPHY 102 TABLES, APPENDIXES AND FIGURES INDEX 125 INTRODUCTION The aim of this work is to deconstruct and gain empirical evidences of one of the widespread current economies: Real Estate Crowdfunding. Particularly, the study will focus on two elements: open innovation and Real Estate Industry. Across time, the global environment shifted from the statement of “innovation” to that of “open innovation”. Defined in several ways from many authors, innovation’s definitions always present three peculiar characteristics: novelty, customer satisfaction and value creation. When it comes to “open innovation”, the main validated definition is proposed by one of the major representatives and initiators of this culture, Henry Chesbrough. He defines open innovation as the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand the markets for external use of innovation (Chesbrough, 2006). Going deeper into the “open innovation funnel”, the work flows to how relevant is, in this context, the transition from “local search” to “broadcast search”, aiming at involving the broader range of individuals for idea generations and solution proposal. At this point, “broadcast search” opens the door to crowdsourcing. Most popular forms of crowdsourcing are crowdsourcing contests, collaborative communities, crowdsourcing complementors and labor markets. The idea of leveraging the power of crowd is common to another phenomenon, of main interest in this analysis: crowdfunding. As for open innovation, a unique definition for this “innovative philosophy” is not provided. But, the most agreed clarification sees crowdfunding as an “open call, run by the Internet, for the provision of financial resources by a group of individuals instead of professional parties either in form of donations, in exchange for a future product or in exchange for some form of reward” (Schwienbacher A., Larralde B., 2010). Understanding crowdfunding means understanding which are its historical roots. In fact, crowdfunding has been already applied in the past, even if not in a conscious way or with the aid of technological instruments. Moreover, crowdfunding presented itself with different practice modelling, assuming a multitude of shapes and features, flowing into four main models: donation-based models, reward-based models, lending-based models and equity-based models. Even though less sophisticated actors could think the main motivation pushing crowd and initiators to engage each other is money, crowdfunding combines elements of online philanthropic behaviour, online consumer behaviour, online peer-to-peer lending and online peer production, predicting and explaining levers of motivation beyond the range of “extrinsic motivations”: fun, altruism, curiosity, reciprocity, social identification, regional identification, direct identification, indirect identification, team characteristics, ideas characteristics, personal needs together represents the tip of the iceberg called “intrinsic motivations”. Motivations represent the starting point of call to action. Call to action is moved by motivations and advantages pursuable. The ability to collect money in an alternative way, representing an alternative to a messy financial landscape, is not the only upside sharable between crowd and founders. The most reliable instrument to structure crowdfunding’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats is conducting a SWOT analysis. All these upsides and downsides identify today Crowdfunding as market rapidly growing, with a total market size 1 of $ 358,275 billion, in which main players are highly heterogeneous in models applied and characteristic. To manage properly RECF it is relevant to assess also what is Real Estate Market. Simply put, Real Estate Market is defined as the market in which the sale’s object between a buyer and a seller is the exchange of any kind of real estate properties, like houses, lands, business premises, etc. (Woychuk I., 2013). What is relevant in the analysis is the progressive process of new technologies introduction in this market, switching from “innovation identification” to “innovation identification” by digitization, data management, artificial intelligence, digital reality, cybersecurity and privacy. Since ever, Real Estate is considered as one of the more traditional and tangible way of investing. The difficulty to access these investments determined by knowledge of the market, regulatory framework, high disposition of capital and effective information have been blurred across the last decade thanks to regulatory modifications and tech advancements, flowing into a new market dimension: Real Estate Crowdfunding. Real Estate Crowdfunding (RECF) is a form of financing in which real estate project developers make an open call on the internet (typically through specialized platforms) to sell a specified amount of equity- or bond-like shares in a company or project, with the aim of attracting a large group of (primarily accredited) investors (Schweizer D., Zhou T., 2017). Looking at the transition from RE to RECF, it is not insane acknowledge the presence of some concerns, doubts and “shadows” floating over the macro- umbrella of crowdfunding and, by induction, over Real Estate Crowdfunding. This work aims to disrupt the incipits of Real Estate Crowdfunding, addressing the following Research Questions: 1) Which are the intrinsic/extrinsic motivations making stakeholders (Real Estate Crowdfunding companies/platforms and small investors/crowdfundee) engage/not engage in Real Estate Crowdfunding practices? 2) Which are the economic and social benefit experienced/perceived by stakeholders engaging in Real Estate Crowdfunding practices with respect to other forms of investment? And which the potential drawbacks arising? 3) Is there a link between «better economic and social results/relationships» and «Crowdfunding in Real Estate»? Before any Research Analysis, it has been fundamental to go deeper into the Real Estate Industry Overview under four different aspects: history, actual situation, legal framework and main instrument used to invest in this market.
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