The CNBC Crowdfinance Real Estate Average is an arithmetic average of total capital commitments in excess of $1,000 by private U.S. real estate companies listed on Crowdnetic's data platform, which collates real-time offerings from securities-based crowdfunding platforms, including: Crowdfunder, CrowdStreet, EarlyShares, EquityNet, Jumpstart Micro, Patch of Land, Prodigy Network, Realty Mogul, Wefunder, and SeedInvest.
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Companies on the average represent the following real estate sectors: development; online services; investments; property management; rental and leasing; residential construction; green construction and manufactured housing.