Other than 100% exclusively owning a vacation property, fractional co-ownership is the only form of deeded title that provides the true benefits of property ownership. The National Association of Realtors reports that second-home buying was up 4.7 percent to a record 1.07 million houses and condos. For vacation-home buyers, the decision to buy is based more on lifestyle choices and advancing age than on the potential for a quick profit. "Boomers" still know the benefits of property ownership, and are claiming their stake of the second home dream. Fractional ownership provides you the opportunity to own one or more properties, leveraging your equity capital into a bigger, better quality property that you will probably use as much as you would with whole ownership.  A fractional owner you may return to your villa on a regular and frequent basis.  Isn't that what you have been working for?

All of the benefits of ownership, with only a fraction of the costs!

By every comparison, Fractional Villas^® makes the most vacation home ownership sense!  

Is co-ownership right for you?

* Based on 1/8th fractional ownership.  Other fraction denominations may provide more, or less guaranteed usage time. All usage of a Fractional Villa is subject to the rules of the Priority Reservation System.  Tax benefits of ownership will vary between owners.  Please consult your tax or legal expert for specific advice. The above comparisons are based on generically typical forms of legal whole ownership, and the Fractional Villas ®  ownership structure, for like-kind properties.

Fractional ownership is for the buyer that is most often not interested in a timeshare, allowing you to acquire a fee-simple, deeded equity interest in a property. As a fractional owner you receive an undivided fractional interest in a property, as a tenant-in-common with the other owners. Not just a right to use a property, but real equitable ownership, that appreciates over time. 

Unlike timeshare interests, fractional ownership offers you investment, tax and legal benefits, in your own single-family estate property.  Not just a floor plan in a large condo, or hotel-like complex where you float from similar unit to unit on each visit, with sterile, often nailed down, impersonal furnishings.  Your Fractional Villa will be your home away from home, that you truly own!

Fractional ownership is unlike the emerging popular "residence/vacation resort clubs" that typically do not offer an equity participation in the properties themselves, but merely the right to use their properties.  When you add up the effective cost per day on the annual fees, the cost of the unearned interest on your upfront and significant membership fees, and the typical loss of 20%, upon its eventual repurchase or sale of your membership, you will realize it calculates to many thousands of dollars per day of actual use of the properties!  If you cannot enjoy the upside equity potential, then why not just rent the equivalent properties for less than the effective computed cost per day?  

With only a right to use, these "residence vacation clubs" are effectively a prepaid hotel use, at more cost per day, than it would typically take to rent the same quality properties outright. Before you sign on the dotted line, you should know the difference between equitable real estate ownership and spending a large amount of money on a prepaid, non-equity, "right to use only" residence/resort club, where the developer is making all of the upside profit, at your expense.  

Don't be left without the real benefits of property ownership, cloaked in a residence club, unless of course you can afford to throw your savings away and miss out on the upside investment potential.