Deals listed
on the real estate crowdfunding sites generally include a summary, analysis of the local property market and a detailed investment analysis provided by the developer.
There was about $ 3.5 billion in activity
on real estate crowdfunding sites in 2016.
Not exact matches
On the SD IRA custodian side, I've noticed a couple of them have setup specific «plans» for people investing in
crowdfunding sites — these «plans» have significantly lower fees for
crowdfunding deals compared to other SD IRA investments, so you end up paying significantly less to put $ 50K in a
crowdfunding platform vs. $ 50K in a direct
real estate deal or $ 50K in gold, for example.
I work in
real estate investment (invest
on behalf of family offices and high net worth investors), and it recently occurred to me that while you invest in P2P lending, you haven't invested with
real estate crowdfunding sites which claim to yield better returns than the ~ 7 % you've achieved via P2P.
On the flipside, these
crowdfunding sites also help
real estate owners (such as developers, property managers and even everyday homeowners) to raise equity for their property or projects.
However, the
site more than other
real estate crowdfunding platforms focuses
on single family home flips.
Real estate investor Brian Lunsford borrowed $ 40,000 from
crowdfund site RealtyShares to renovate a house
on Sprague Drive near UCF that one of his tenants had nearly burned down.
Joseph: All the
real estate crowdfunding sites have analysts that check projections
on projects to give investors an idea of projected returns.