Groundfloor Review 2026: The Real Estate Debt Platform Open to Non-Accredited Investors
Groundfloor is one of the only platforms where a non-accredited investor can lend directly against a fix-and-flip renovation loan for $10, and its Signature Notes currently pay a fixed 8.25% APY with...
Arrived Review 2026: Is Bezos-Backed Fractional Rental Investing Worth the Fee Stack?
Arrived (formerly Arrived Homes) lets you buy fractional shares of single-family rental homes for as little as $100, backed by Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff, but its single-family rental portfolio...
CrowdStreet 2026: What Happened After the $63M Fraud and Is It Safe Now?
8 million of investor capital in the 2023 Nightingale fraud. CEO Elchonon Schwartz was sentenced to 87 months in prison in May 2025 with $45.8 million in restitution ordered. Only 13% of stolen funds
EquityMultiple Review 2026: What Accredited Investors Get (and Give Up) on This CRE Platform
EquityMultiple Review 2026: Returns, Fees Risks TL;DR Platform: EquityMultiple NYC-based, founded 2015, accredited investors only What it offers: Senior debt, preferred equity, common equity CRE deals
CrowdStreet Review 2026: $4.5B Platform After the $63M Fraud
TL;DR On May 19, 2025, U.S. District Judge Steven Grimberg sentenced Nightingale Properties CEO Elie Schwartz to 87 months in federal prison for stealing $62.8 million from roughly 800 CrowdStreet inv