Lover of cities. Architect. Urban Designer. Real estate developer. FinTech pioneer. Urban change agent. I’m the founder of SmallChange.co, a real estate equity crowdfunding platform. We raise funds for meaningful real estate projects building better cities everywhere. We match developers to investors, providing investment opportunities for everyone who cares about cities and wants to make change. All through a fluid and compliant technology platform. My world has always been wrapped around cities and change. My background as an architect, city planner, urban designer, real estate developer, community development strategist, publisher, and all around instigator gives me a rich understanding of how cities work, how urban neighborhoods can be revitalized, what policies are needed to do it, and the unique marketing that creates the buzz needed for regeneration. Amongst my many urban (ad)ventures, I’ve developed a dozen buildings in blighted neighborhoods, founded a non-profit, cityLAB, built Pittsburgh’s first tiny house, organized a speaker series, launched a Pittsburgh e-zine called PopCity, and established downtown Pittsburgh’s first co-working space. I also co-founded Pittsburgh’s wildly successful Open Streets program and now host a weekly podcast series about real estate impact investing. Some honors I’m proud of include Small Change ranking as one of 7 top Real Estate Crowdfunding Platforms of 2020 by US News, nabbing Top Innovator in the “Capital” category by HIVE, my tenure as a Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency Program and our recent participation in Village Capital’s FinHealth US 2021, an accelerator program for early-stage startups. All of these experiences have led me to become one of the foremost thinkers on urban change.

Mark K. Bhasin, CFA, FRM, CAIA, FDP, CMT, ERP, PRM, LEED Green Associate, WELL AP is currently Senior Vice-President and Chief Underwriter of Agency Multifamily Finance for Basis Investment Group, LLC, a multi-strategy commercial real estate finance platform based in New York. In his career, Mr. Bhasin has underwritten and closed over $500 million in agency and CMBS loans on multifamily properties throughout the United States. He has worked at Basis since February 2010 and served as its Co-Deputy Chief Underwriter of Agency Multifamily Finance from June 2020 to November 2021. Mr. Bhasin has spent over 20 years in the finance and real estate sectors. Mark has also worked at CWCapital, GMAC Commercial Mortgage, and PaineWebber. At PaineWebber, Mark participated in the firm’s Investment Banking Analyst Training Program. While an undergraduate student at NYU, Mark worked part time for two years at Kidder Peabody & Co. in its CMO/MBS research group. Mark is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business where he teaches the Real Estate Primary Markets course in the MBA and undergraduate programs. Mark is also an owner in Delos, which is the founder of the WELL Building Standard (WELL certification), WELL Health-Safety rating, WELL AP credential, and International WELL Building Institute (IWBI). Mr. Bhasin is a former Adjunct Professor of Real Estate Development at Columbia University where he lectured in real estate finance. He is a former Lecturer at SUNY Stony Brook where he taught MBA corporate finance courses. Mr. Bhasin is a graduate of New York University's Stern School of Business where he earned his Bachelor of Science in finance and accounting. While at Stern, he was an Alumni Scholar and member of Beta Alpha Psi. He earned his Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University where he was also a real estate finance teaching assistant. Mr. Bhasin is a CFA, CAIA,