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Origin Ready to Grow Crowdfunding Effort

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Melissa Harris: “For decades, the only people with an avenue into real estate were institutional investors and the ultra-wealthy, and we’re changing that.”

CHICAGO—Origin Capital Partners has just hired Melissa Harris, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and former Chicago Tribune business columnist, to help grow its new real estate crowdfunding platform. As the Chicago-based firm’s vice president of marketing, Harris will help lead its effort to democratize private equity and encourage qualified investors to participate alongside Origin principals in the firm’s deals.

“It’s an industry that has been so walled off,”  Harris tells GlobeSt.com. “For decades, the only people with an avenue into real estate were institutional investors and the ultra-wealthy, and we’re changing that.” For a minimum of $25,000, investors who use Origin’s platform can find “opportunities that were not available before. And the fact that real estate is a physical thing you can walk by and say, ‘I own a piece of that,’” makes it meaningful for the smaller investor…

Origin Ready to Grow Crowdfunding Effort

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