Benefits of Fractional Vacation Home Ownership

[Jeffrey Cerra]

In today’s real estate market both buyers and sellers are remain apprehensive about the purchase and the selling of a home. Sellers often fear that they won’t receive full market value and in some cases, a fair price for their home. Conversely buyers often hold out for lower prices or a better mortgage further frustrating today’s sellers. Despite a downtrodden market there are some people who have begun to turn their attention to fractional ownerships.

Fractional real estate is one of the hottest growing trends in the market of today and offers those looking for a home the many benefits of ownership, all the while dividing the costs and responsibilities of ownership between several different parties. These types of benefits have made fractional real estate especially popular with those interested in vacation homes but remain apprehensive about purchasing such a home.

A fractional home owner allows persons access to the home at predetermined times while still retaining partial ownership over the home, as opposed to a time share where individuals own units of time. Additionally as property values increase so do the individual shares of each owner and should the owners of such properties decide to sell their fraction of the home they may do so at any time without penalty.