NEW YORK CITY—Possibly making a burgeoning, often misunderstood segment of real estate more approachable, Acquire Real Estate has launched an online calculator to help crowdfunded real estate investors understand their returns.
The cash flow calculator—which also displays legal fees, percent ownership and total profit—serves as a resource for real estate investors who seek greater transparency. Investors can plug an amount of capital into the calculator and it will reveal the potential returns on the investment over the lifetime of that transaction.
"We know that making the decision to invest in real estate is an important one, and it's our goal to make this process more transparent," says Steven Bettinger, CEO of Acquire. "Today's investors have the opportunity to create a portfolio that truly reflects their real estate preferences and appetite for risk. We want to make the process—from identifying the right opportunity to making an investment—as transparent as possible. This calculator is a step in that direction."
The Cash Flow Calculator can be accessed on the Acquire website. The site also features a collection of articles, videos and resources designed to help investors develop a real estate investment strategy of their own.
"As investors ourselves, we understand the importance of making informed investment decisions, and that includes understanding the money that you stand to make from each investment in a simple, concise and easy to understand format," adds Bettinger.
Acquire's platform features a collection of income-producing commercial properties from top national real estate operators. As a crowd-investing platform, all of Acquire's properties are pre-screened and then pre-funded by Acquire.
Unlike competing platforms that finance payment-dependent loans, Acquire takes a unique approach in its role as equity investor whereby it underwrites and invests in each property prior to offering it to its members.
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Rayna Katz
Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
