Stock.estate: Romanians’ appetite for investment is growing considerably
Licensed in autumn 2023 by the ASF and launched for trading in January 2024, Stock.estate reports strong results one year after the first transaction on the platform. Basically, around 15% of Stock.estate users have become investors in local real estate products.
Stock.estate is a crowdfunding platform – the first of its kind authorized by ASF in Romania and the only locally operational platform. The objective of Stock.estate is to offer investors the opportunity to invest in the real estate sector in the amount they have available, with a minimum amount of 100 euros. The investment in the Stock.estate platform amounts to more than half a million euros so far.
“We are still a nascent culture in terms of investment tools, it’s true, but we firmly believe that Romanians will be increasingly open to investments of all kinds. We have been observing their increased interest in the investment area for about five years now, and the results of the first year of our platform validate Romanians’ appetite for new investments”, says Vicențiu Vlad – Co-Founder & CEO – Stock.estate.
The platform’s figures count more than 1,500 people enrolled in the platform (i.e., people who have created an account in the platform and have permanently accessed the information on the use of the financial investment tool), more than 200 of them have made direct investments in the platform, and their transactions amount to more than 550 shares – with a total value of more than 750,000 euro.
“The best news of our first results is exactly related to the investors who have become active, some of them recurrently returning to new investments. The percentage of almost 15% of active investors on the platform gives us tremendous confidence that Romanians are increasingly interested in real estate investments. The fact that more than 1,500 users are constantly returning to Stock.estate for information is another extremely positive indicator for the collective investment decision. For example, a certain user decided to invest after a year of constant information on our platform, and we are happy that correct information is developing so much in Romania”, explains Vlad.
The crowdfunding market in Romania has significant potential, estimated at around €200 million, thanks to the steady interest growth from investors and entrepreneurs.
“With recent regulation facilitating access and protecting investors, crowdfunding platforms in Romania, such as Stock.estate, have started to gain traction, providing funding opportunities for the real estate market. This platform democratizes access to capital and enables market validation and project marketing, thus contributing to developing a dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem”, says Alexandru Constantin – Co-Founder & CTO – of Stock.estate.
According to the co-founders, the company’s expectations for the next year of activity on the Romanian market foresee a growth of over 300%, given the increased interest of local investors.
About Stock.estate
Stock.estate is founded by entrepreneurs Vicențiu Vlad and Alexandru Constantin.
With an eight-year military career, which included international missions and working with global organizations such as the United Nations, Vicențiu Vlad has gained solid knowledge in project management and the development of effective business strategies. This international experience gives him a global perspective and a deep understanding of diverse contexts and markets, bringing the best business practices nationally. He chose to open the Stock.estate platform and obtained the first nationwide crowdlending license after his investments in Romanian real estate, which gave him a deep understanding of the local real estate market. His portfolio includes over 20 residential, commercial, and tourist real estate units.
Passionate about technology from an early age, Alexandru Constantin has been building websites since high school. Back then, there were no startups, just websites. He has worked as a software engineer in several corporations since his computer science college, where he graduated. During his last year of undergrad and his master’s degree at the same school, he discovered artificial intelligence, which led him to specialize in machine learning. He worked as an artificial intelligence engineer when he founded several startups in Fintech and AI. He never gave up on his childhood dream, which crystallized into founding a company at the intersection of his passions and the desire to do something that helps others. This led him to find and launch the first accredited real estate crowdlending platform in Romania, Stock.estate. He also dreams of a future where Romanians are more careful with their finances and have diversified investment strategies, including Stock.state.
By Andreea Dragan, Editor – 17.02.2025
Andreea Drăgan joined Nine O’Clock in April 2023. She graduated the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Science in 2023 and holds a degree in communications sciences. She obtained the Cambridge Assessment English: First Certificate in English (FCE) diploma in December 2018 with a B2 Level. In August she was promoted to Editor of Nine O’Clock Newspaper after many interviews and articles written by her. Andreea Drăgan, journalist at Nine O’Clock, specializing in Capital Markets and listed companies on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, has been nominated for the “Excellence in Capital Market Journalism in 2024” award at the prestigious BVB Awards, organized by the Bucharest Stock Exchange. Get in touch with her: [email protected]
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