Top Crowdfunding Sites for Real Estate

Based in Los Angeles, Realty Mogul has focused on crowdfunding real estate. For more data on the company, see Realty Mogul's statistics dashboard.

With $100 minimum investments and short-term investment horizons (1-5 years), Fundrise and its crowd have invested tens of millions of dollars in real estate properties that include the iconic new World Trade Center.

Groundbreaker's brand of crowdfunding begins and ends with real estate companies, which it works closely with to help raise money from the crowd. Real estate firms interested in crowdfunding and syndicating their deals can work with Groundbreaker's technology to build and expand their investor bases.

Invest as little as $5,000 in CrowdStreet's professionally managed real estate deals. Founded by CEO, Tore Steen and VP of Business Development, Darren Powderly, who's negotiated over $200 million in commercial real estate transactions since 2003.

Groundfloor uses state crowdfunding rules which means people in the states that Groundfloor does business don't need to be accredited investors to participate in the site's real estate deals. Investors can invest as little as $100 in properties and financings.

iFunding is a real estate crowdfunding platform that invests in commercial real and single family residential projects.

Built on its founders' collective $3 billion in institutional real estate investing experience, RealCrowd emerged from the prestigious Y Combinator incubator program.

Invest as little as $5,000 in RealtyShares' offerings of direct equity and debt instruments. CEO Nav Athwal was quoted saying, "We make the process of investing in real estate as easy as purchasing shares in publicly traded companies on E-Trade."

Patch of Land was founded by two brothers who wanted to help communities that suffered under the real estate crash of the late 2000s. 

BlackHawk wants investors to view its investments as a higher interest rate for their cash. Like peer to peer lenders, BlackHawk enables borrowers to submit real estate loan requests and investors to retain commercial notes.

Unlike making direct investments in property, investors on AHP purchase pools of distressed mortgages (all backed by property) from across the U.S., frequently at deep discounts.