Business Press Releases - 2021
![Business Loan Application](https://business.fau.edu/images/business/news/press-releases/2021-03-10-business-loan-application.jpg)
FAU Study: Entrepreneurs Getting Big Boost from Online Lending
By Paul Owers |
03/10/2021
Online marketplace loans are leading to a sharp rise in new businesses, evidence that the lending platforms are helping to redefine the U.S. banking industry, according to a research team that includes professors at Florida Atlantic University.
![BHJ Housing index](https://business.fau.edu/images/business/news/press-releases/2021-03-08%20BHJ.jpg)
Reconsider Renting: Housing Index Shows Buying Costs Decline
By Paul Owers |
03/08/2021
Renting a home and reinvesting the money that would have been spent on owning has been the better way to build wealth, on average, for several years.
![Consumer during pandemic](https://business.fau.edu/images/business/news/press-releases/2021-03-04%20BEPI.jpg)
Floridians Bullish on U.S. Economy but Less Certain about Finances
By Paul Owers |
03/04/2021
While Floridians are upbeat about the U.S. economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, many residents believe their finances won’t return to normal until later this year or even beyond 2022.