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Investors, Please note that the Legacy Platform of Patch of Land Inc, completed an asset sale on July 27th of 2021. All remaining crowd assets, loans and investments are being actively managed in an effort to wind down the platform, with an expected cessation of business activities by the end of the year 2022. Due to limited remaining resources, property updates may not be available and are being made upon request. For information regarding any remaining portfolio or for any questions or concerns, please contact [email protected].

The Patch of Land Blog

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5 Underrated Affordable Cities You Should Move To

How affordable is your rent? In America, the cost of living varies greatly depending on the city you live in. In the country’s major cities, monthly rent just keeps going up, and renters in Los Ang... [Read More]

Tags: Growing Communities
Real Estate Crowdfunding Enters the Innovation Zone

If the crowdfunding community were a neighborhood, and a development sign welcomed all who enter, it would say Innovation Zone. Enter with Abandon. Innovation positively impacts our economy, spurri... [Read More]

Tags: Growing Communities
Peer to Peer Lending: Financing for the New Millennium

Peer to Peer Lending, or P2P Lending, is a new millennium concept designed to give people the ability to lend and borrow money with other individuals online. Using the Internet as its medium, what ... [Read More]

Tags: Building Wealth, Growing Communities, Q&A From the Patch
Babyboomers, Millennials, & the Affordable Housing Urgency

As Babyboomers struggle to retire, and Millennials work hard to begin, affordable housing becomes a universal necessity. The two largest populated generations share the same need when the supply is... [Read More]

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Real Estate Crowdfunding: Doing Well While Doing Good

We move into this new year with community-focused projects that, while growing communities, also add to the increasingly noted benefits for builders who participate.
“With an incentive of doi... [Read More]

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Doing Social Good through Crowdfunding with Patch of Land

At Patch of Land we believe in Building Wealth & Growing Communities. For us, this is more than just a catchy slogan, it's a motto that we stand by wholeheartedly. We truly believe the ... [Read More]

Tags: Building Wealth, Growing Communities, Video
Vision without Limits during the Holidays & Beyond

As we, in the crowdfunding realm, continue growing communities, we find parallels in the giving and receiving of the holiday season.
This year, we have reasserted rehabbing real estate as an ... [Read More]

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Finding Happiness: The Sunny Life or the Simple Life

Penn State professor, Stephan Goetz, performed a study to try and figure out where the least happy communities were located throughout America. The study took into consideration the number of poor ... [Read More]

Tags: Growing Communities, Stats & Data
Why New Jersey Is the New Hotspot for Real Estate

For many, New Jersey has a bad reputation for crime and poverty. In fact, the Census Bureau reported that 39.8% of residents in Camden, NJ lived below the poverty line from 2009 to 2013. That figur... [Read More]

Tags: Building Wealth, Growing Communities
The Digital Farmers Market: Why Crowdsourcing Matters in Agriculture

This is truly such an exciting time in our history! For the first time we are seeing the distribution of wealth being returned to the society as a whole through the platform of technology in a fair... [Read More]

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