Carlton Launches Global Crowdfunding Platform

NEW YORK CITY—The Carlton Group has launched a real estate crowdfunding platform and website with more than $1 billion of investment opportunities here and in Europe. Carlton says the platform is intended to provide accredited investors from around the world an opportunity to invest in large, high-yielding, cash-flowing CRE investments.

Howard Michaels, Carlton’s chairman and chief executive, tells GlobeSt.com that a number of factors differentiate the Carlton Accredited Equity Crowdfunding platform from other crowdfunding vehicles. “We’ve been in business more than 20 years; we’re a large, established investment advisory bank and we didn’t just pop up and say ‘we’re going to raise equity and do this crowdfunding thing,’” he says. “We have unique access to cash-flowing real estate projects. We absolutely have global reach, and we’ll be accessing international investors,” many of whom will want to invest in the US, in particular Manhattan.