Fundrise

Before two thousand and thirteen, commercial real estate existed behind velvet ropes. A fifty million dollar property required fifty million to participate. Individual investors with ten thousand dollars couldn't access it. Capital markets operated in tiers separated by account size. Opportunity stayed completely exclusive. Fundrise made minimum investments irrelevant overnight. Ten dollars became the entry point. A shopping center requiring twenty million raised it from two million small investors. Fundamentals never changed. Buildings generated twelve percent annual returns. What changed was who captured it. By twenty twenty-four, Fundrise deployed over five billion across two thousand properties.