While options aren’t totally uncommon in something like a commercial real estate development, straight options are rare on houses. They usually involve a tenant having the option to buy a house within some term such as 3 years. Most residential landlords would never give a straight option to another investor to buy the house at some…
What Are Life Estates? It is rare to see a life estate sold in the U.S., although they are more common in European countries like Italy and France where it is called an Estate “Pur Autre Vie,” or for another’s life. A life estate allows you to sell your property to another buyer, but maintain…
Ranking Methodology We looked at the 100+ real estate crowdfunding platforms out there and ranked them according to the amount of website traffic. Our source is Alexa ranking, which is based on the amount of traffic compared to all other websites in the world. Because real estate crowdfunding is so new, there are a lot…
