If You Bought Shares Of A Rental Property When Jeff Bezos First Backed This Investment Platform, Here's How Much You Would Have Made

After carefully examining the documentation about a budding real estate investment platform, Jeff Bezos and his team of financial advisors decided that Arrived was onto something spectacular.

The billionaire businessman invested in both of the company’s multi-million-dollar funding rounds through his Bezos Expeditions Fund. Due to the team of real estate veterans behind the company, the expectations were high. However, barely anyone could anticipate that Arrived’s returns would completely outclass the wider market's returns during the thorniest periods for real estate investing in the last decade.

The Lierly, the first property to hit the platform, is raking in a rental dividend yield of 7.5% annually, while the property shares spiked by a staggering 107.9% in only 19 months.

Total returns on a $1,000 investment in the home come up to $2,079, but it isn’t the only one with eye-popping returns.

Investing in Arrived’s newest offerings takes as little as $100. Click here to check out the latest batch of rentals.

What Exactly Made Bezos Reach For His Checkbook? 

Arrived lets any investor own shares of meticulously selected individual properties. The investors earn passive income through rent dividends while their shares appreciate in value. Unlike with REITs, investors have full control over which individual properties they invest in. However, extensive cherry-picking wasn’t necessary to score baffling returns thus far.

The first batch of six properties Arrived acquired 19 months ago boasts an average total return of 70.13%. The next batch was acquired 14 months ago and currently averages a total return rate of 37.06%. That’s more than a third of the initial investment in a little over a year.

Investors owe this meteoric success mostly to the company’s selection process.

Its goal is to single out undervalued units on the market and acquire them, which is easier said than done. Realtors, big-league real estate investors, and even everyday people usually know what their property is worth. Therefore, undervalued properties are few and far between.

The company utilizes in-house expert opinion and artificial intelligence to find them and also hires teams that maximize the returns after acquisition. This includes lowering costs and lowering vacancy rates, among many other goals.

When the teams agree on a handful of properties, they release them to the army of 231,000 registered investors. Only 0.2% of considered properties make the cut.

Arrived has just issued a new batch of rentals. If you’re interested, Benzinga strongly recommends checking them out promptly since they tend to sell out fairly quickly.

Click here to explore the latest Arrived rentals.