Lofty

100+ rental properties across 40 markets 🏘️

Buy shares, earn daily rent, and sell anytime on the world's first real estate exchange 📊

Backed by @ycombinator

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

A real estate day trader on Lofty made a 50% return in 56 days 📈

With Lofty, real estate day trading is now possible.

Most people think of real estate as something you buy and hold for years.

And usually, that’s true.

But on Lofty, investors can buy and sell shares of individual properties. Not funds. Not REITs. Real homes.

Here’s one recent completed example:

A Lofty investor bought shares in 6601 E Hearn Rd, a short-term rental in Scottsdale, Arizona.

They invested about $5.2K.

They exited 56 days later.

After fees and rental income, they received about $7.8K.

That’s roughly $2.6K in profit, or a 50.8% total return on capital deployed.

This was not a model, projection, or backtest. It was a completed transaction on the Lofty marketplace.

The bigger story is what it shows:

Real estate can now be more liquid, more accessible, and more active than traditional property ownership.

Investors can enter and exit positions in days or weeks, earn rental income while holding, and manage exposure across individual properties.

This is the future of real estate investing:

Real properties. Real liquidity. Income while you hold.

That’s what Lofty is building.

Link to the case study in the thread 👇

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

Try the calculators today: https://t.co/1W7lf1HCmi

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

We just launched free real estate calculators on Lofty! No email gate. No signup required 🧮

Just open the calculator, run the numbers, and see if the deal makes sense.

Calculators include:

1️⃣ Rental Property Calculator

Run a complete rental property cash flow analysis, including monthly cash flow, ROI, cap rate, cash-on-cash return, DSCR, the 1% rule, break-even occupancy, and year-by-year projections.

2️⃣ Airbnb Calculator

Model a short-term rental using ADR, occupancy, platform fees, cleaning, management, and financing. See cash flow, RevPAN, expense ratio, and break-even occupancy.

3️⃣ Real Estate Investment Calculator

Project an investment property over a full hold period using rent growth, appreciation, financing, and exit assumptions.

4️⃣ Mortgage Calculator

Estimate the financing side of a property purchase, including PITI, PMI, total interest, and a year-by-year amortization summary.

5️⃣ 1031 Exchange Calculator

See what you would owe on an outright sale and what a 1031 exchange may defer, including federal capital gains, depreciation recapture, NIIT, state tax, boot, and the reinvestable cash difference.

Real estate investing has always been full of friction.

Finding the numbers shouldn’t be one of them.

Link to the calculators 👇

[Copernicus.voi @CryptoSven2]

Most people don't know you can own rental properties for $50.

I own 5 properties on @Lofty_ai and earn rent daily.

Here's $100 to try it:

https://t.co/e31XzUMLhd

[Austin Thompson, Redfin New Orleans @austintrealtor]

Most people don't know you can own rental properties for $50.

I own 54 properties on @Lofty_ai and earn rent daily.

Here's $100 to try it: https://t.co/o0d1AV1tn6

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

@ZeusRWA We already did.

$100M TVL & 100+ tradeable properties – https://t.co/SZx3RQltVi

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

Four rental properties on Lofty just sold, delivering an average 31.86% realized return to investors 📈

They didn't want to sell. They didn't want to refinance.

Two homeowners listed four single-family homes on Lofty, three in Dunedin, Florida and one in Lubbock, Texas, and sold fractional shares to investors around the world.

Investors bought equity in all four. Rent came in. Updates went out by email and in Discord.

Then investors voted to sell.

All four properties sold.

Investors got paid.

It was done.

This is the model working exactly as we designed it:

✔️ Owners unlock liquidity from their own real estate on their terms.

✔️ Investors buy direct ownership in individual homes - not a fund, not a REIT.

✔️ Everyone tracks performance, collects rent, votes on decisions, and exits when the property sells.

That is what Lofty was built for: a real estate exchange where owners can access liquidity, investors can own individual homes, and both sides can participate in transparent outcomes from funding to exit.

[FredEstante.algo @fredestante]

9/18
Another @lofty_ai property sale — 440 Louden Ave clears at $69.91/share, a 39.82% gain in 25 months!
https://t.co/lWzw1wo1UR

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

A duplex on Lofty just sold!

440 Louden Ave cleared at $69.91/share, giving investors a 39.82% gain in 25 months.

But the return isn’t the only interesting part.

Investors bought $50 shares of one specific duplex, fully occupied and half a mile from the ocean in Dunedin, FL.

The original owner stayed on as property manager after selling part of his equity to investors.

He didn’t want to sell the whole property or refinance, so Lofty gave him another option.

Investors earned daily rent distributions.

Over the hold, $45,348 went out to investors.

Then investors voted to sell.

The property closed.

Everyone got their share.

Buy. Earn. Vote. Exit.

One property. One real transaction. Full loop complete.

That’s what a real estate exchange looks like.

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

This is more proof that the world's first real estate exchange is no longer just an idea; it has a track record.

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

A property on the Lofty Marketplace just sold 📈

1580 Andover Dr cleared at $71.02/share - a 42.04% gain for investors in 24 months 🧵

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

✔️ Owners unlock liquidity from their own real estate on their terms.

✔️ Investors buy direct ownership in individual homes, not a fund or a REIT.

✔️ Everyone tracks performance, collects rent, votes on decisions, and exits when the property sells.

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

https://t.co/MLGhDNK1ct

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

Got tired of comparing real estate investing apps one at a time so we put 15 of them side by side.

Fundrise, Arrived, Mogul, Lofty, Groundfloor, Ark7, plus 9 more.

Fees, minimums, liquidity, 2026 returns, honest pros and cons.

free, no email gate. link in thread 👇

[Lofty @lofty_ai]

❌ buying a rental property the old way:

→ 60 days → $40k down → find a property manager → no liquidity → a tenant calling at 11pm about a toilet

✅ buying a piece of one on Lofty:

→ 15 seconds → $50 → rent paid daily → instant liquidity → no calls

choose your fighter.

[Jerry Chu 🍊 @PMDBT]

At @lofty_ai, we usually start testing new ideas using a manual process. It helps us move quickly and figure out if an idea actually resonates with users or not.

Sometimes they do, but because of other priorities, we end up operating that manual process for far longer than we'd like.

Introducing our new off-ramp and withdrawal flow. Users can now click 2 buttons and complete withdrawals for their rent balance or account balance to their connected bank accounts. There is also built in tracking to tell you the status of your withdrawals.

Standard off-ramps are also free now (3-5 business days) through ACH while the express option (1 business day) costs 2%, down to 1% if withdrawing above $10,000.

This has been a big bottle neck for the platform as users had to fill out a form manually and learn how to operate a crypto wallet to send funds to us manually.

According to our support metrics, 75% of all customer support requests were regarding how to perform this step properly or getting an update on the status of their withdrawal.

No more! Enjoy the new flow and happy trading!