These new modes of participatory financing open to individuals and in particular real estate crowdfunding allow relatively short returns on investment over periods ranging from 6 to 24 months as a general rule. Using crowdfunding makes it possible to carry out all types of real estate projects and operations, in particular for construction, renovation, energy improvement of the habitat, life annuity or renting.
Real estate crowdfunding provides a concrete and tailored response to developers who see it as a means of securing financing needs, controlling their cash flow and dealing with possible budget overruns that are recurrent in this field of activity with the generation of additional costs, delays in delivery or even the lengthening of time to promote and sell all the lots of the real estate operation.
For the real estate developer, launching an alternative financing campaign such as crowdfunding can also allow to build up a starting capital aimed at convincing banking institutions to support the project via the loan.
For the individual investor, real estate crowdfunding allows access to more diversified financial investments, which until now have been reserved for people with large amounts of capital, while guaranteeing the repayment of their capital at a fixed date and the possible generation of profits, depending on the set-up.