In the past, you could crowd fund to raise money for your business, your favorite charity, to launch a new product and now, you can crowd fund to buy a property.

A large number of people today want to be homeowners, but they cannot afford the down payment necessary to own their property. What with the high level of students loan debt, underemployment, high rent and general economic downturn, people are left with little or no savings and a diminished hope of every owning their own home.

Properties investment crowdfunding allows different people; even strangers to invest money and buy a property, people can invest small amounts of money in a property with the intention to rent for profit. It allows people to place little amounts of money into a property portfolio which will begin to accumulate returns and generate capital growth.

Crowdfunding has the potential to become a considerable game changer in the real estate and property industry with a lot of possibilities and advantages.

Property investment crowdfunding has opened up the real estate market to a new level of accessibility. A wider pool of investors who will normally not have access to these investment opportunities now do so and can get involved with even the smallest amount of capital.

The following points explain why property investment crowdfunding is becoming one of the embraced mainstream ways to earn income from properties.

• Investments made through property crowd funding can be managed with ease, it is done online and provides straightforward, well researched information needed for property investment decisions. Furthermore, property investment crowd funding allows for easy diversification, which means, investors can split their investments into little bits across a wide range of property investment opportunities.
• When compared to traditional property investment, property investment crowd funding offers a more flexible mechanism. Investors no longer have to engage in challenging, time consuming processes that involves additional expenses. The crowd funding platform provides investors with a secondary market that offers a wider array of property investment choices.
• Although there might be a minimum investment amount, investors have the choice to invest as little or as much as they want in any property investment portfolio while enjoying the rental income.
• Experienced property investment professionals carry out due diligence needed on the properties and only offer them if they meet their criteria.  This brings some form of credibility to the process. Crowdfunding companies in the UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and follow a strict code of conduct.

Property investment crowd funding is paving the way for more and more people to have access to investment opportunities in the property industry. More than this however, is that property investment crowd funding brings efficiency and opens to the door to more innovation in the property industry.