| Fractional Vacation Real Estate Ownership |
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| More and more people are opting to own fractional vacation property, vacation clubs, and shared vacation homes. These arrangements can involve a single home, or a large resort development, and can be organized by a small group of family or friends, an individual buyer or seller, a Realtor, or a developer. The articles, links and resources on this page relate to fractional real estate ownership and development of vacation or resort property. To learn more about the fractional ownership legal services offered by Sirkin & Associates, visit Our Services. |
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| General Information on Fractional Ownership |
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Fractional Vacation Ownership Questions and Answers
Comprehensive FAQ on all aspects of fractional ownership for the buyer, seller, Realtor or novice developer. |
Fractional Ownership 101
A quick introduction to fractional real estate ownership, vacation clubs, timeshares and other fractional property. |
Understanding Fractional Ownership Terminology
This article defines and explains the most commonly used fractional real estate ownership terms and phrases. |
Fractional Ownership and Timeshare Product Categories and Characteristics
This chart describes the differences between timeshare, fractional ownership, private residence clubs (PRC), destination clubs, quartershares, shared ownership and co-ownership. (49 KBytes, PDF) |
Shared Ownership Top 10 Issues
Whenever two or more people, couples or families share property, education and planning can dramatically improve the shared ownership relationship. Learn the major shared ownership issues, and have a more enjoyable, more profitable and less risky co-ownership experience. |
Family Ownership Top 10 Issues
Formulating a plan in advance for handling the most important family ownership issues, and agreeing to stick to the plan unless everyone wants to change it, dramatically lowers the risk of tension and disputes. This article will guide you through the key issues for families sharing vacation homes. |
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| Designing and Organizing a Fractional Offering |
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Analyzing Fractional Ownership Potential of Individual Homes and Condominiums
This article will help vacation home owners and real estate agents determine whether marketing fractional ownership shares is viable and makes economic sense, and describe the steps and costs involved in creating and marketing fractional ownership interests. |
Analyzing Fractional Ownership Potential of Resort and Multi-Unit Developments
Many hotels, inns, resorts, and multi-unit developments have fractional sale potential. This article will help owners and developers of resort and multi-unit properties determine whether offering fractional ownership is viable and makes economic sense. |
Fractional Ownership Usage Arrangements
The usage allocation system for a fractional vacation property decides who can use the property when and, in fractional arrangements involving usage of more than one property, which home an owner will visit, and this article explains the most common usage allocation systems and describes their pros and cons. |
Pricing Fractional Vacation Property
This article provides some tools to help fractional developers, sellers and sales agents develop a pricing strategy for fractional ownership shares. |
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| Marketing and Selling Fractional Interests |
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Co-Ownership Slide Presentation
How Realtors can use co-ownership models to increase commissions and sales in international transactions. Slides from a 10/5/2012 speech to the CAR Global Real Estate Forum. (4572 KBytes, PDF) |
Selling Fractional Ownership in Vacation Homes: 10 Tips
Learn how to sell a fractional interest in a vacation home or condominium, from designing the best fractional offering to generating buyer interest to speaking with buyers or possible partners to getting a commitment and closing. |
Relationship Sales Techniques for Vacation Home Fractional Shares
This article demonstrates how techniques of relationship selling can actively involve affluent purchasers in the sales process and lead them toward a making a commitment to purchase. |
Selling a Fractional Vacation Home or Private Residence Club in 90 Minutes
Learn to answer challenging questions asked by fractional buyers and pose the “closing questions.” Model Scripts suggest how sales executives can keep the train steadily chugging toward a fractional ownership or private residence club vacation home sale. |
Introducing Real Estate Agents to Fractional Vacation Home Marketing and Sales
The participation of real estate agents and brokers in the listing and sales of fractional vacation homes can be a key element in successfully selling out the fractional interests. This articles outlines ten elements in introducing Realtors to fractional ownership. |
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| Buyers of Fractionals, Timeshares, and Private Residence Clubs |
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Analyzing, Comparing and Choosing Among Fractional Ownership Options
This article is intended to help you understand, analyze and compare fractional vacation ownership options, ranging from buying into an individual home or condominium with friends or family, to buying into a private residence club resort offered by Ritz Carlton or Four Seasons.
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Fractionals: Timeshares With A Makeover?
Understand the differences between fractional ownership and timeshares. |
Understanding Fractional Ownership Exchange Programs
This article explains the various types of fractional vacation ownership exchange programs and introduces some of the key issues in evaluating these arrangements. |
The Logic of Fractional Ownership
A comparison of fractional ownership to whole ownership. |
Fractional Ownership Video Tutorial
This short presentation made by Andy Sirkin to Alliance Francaise in Spring 2010 explains the basics of shared vacation home ownership as well as some specific information relating to fractional ownership of homes and apartments in France. |
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| Operating a Fractional Owners Association |
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Starting and Operating A Fractional Owners Association
Step-by-step instructions for starting and running an owners association for a group of people who co-own, and share use of, vacation or resort property for shared ownership groups ranging in size from two owners to 100 owners. |
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| Fractional Ownership and Timeshare Law |
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Sirkin’s Fractional Ownership Regulation Guide
2,687 page document with a complete text of laws, regulations and filing requirements for fractional and timeshare real estate sales and projects for all 50 states plus a summary of the most critical aspects of each state's law in 5-7 bullet points |
California Fractional and Time Share Law
California law relating to fractional vacation home sharing and fractional vacation home co-ownership including time-share and fractional ownership arrangements (977 KBytes, HTM) |
2009 European Fractional Ownership Directive
This new Directive applies to fractionals and PRCs, deeded or non-deeded, equity or non-equity, ranging from a single home up to many units, when the property is located in Europe or where marketing is targeted at European residents. |
Taxation of Fractional Vacation Home Interests
Analysis of tax issues related to fractional vacation home sharing and vacation home co-ownership including fractionals, time shares and time share estates (210 KBytes, PDF) |
Tax Aspects of Fractional and Shared Ownership of France Property Owned By Non-French Residents
Tax issues for fractional and shared ownership in France; key concepts in French real estate transactions, taxation and treaties; tax effects of various fractional ownership structures; tax consequence of vacation rentals and commercial characterization (346 KBytes, PDF) |
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| Fractional Ownership Resources |
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Podcast on Fractional Ownership
Andy Sirkin explains why fractional ownership makes sense as an alternative to vacation rentals for both vacation home owners and renters. |
Fractional Ownership From the French Perspective
Le Parrain du Fractionals? Interview with Andy Sirkin in the Paris newspaper La Tribune (Francais) (87 KBytes, PDF) |
A Place For All Seasons
Once upon a time, not that long ago, it was the early adopters who embraced the fractional lifestyle, spotting a trend that grew into a new way to own a holiday home. Now, as the fractional ownership story goes more mainstream, one question many are asking is, is it a lifestyle purchase or alternative property investment - or both? Fiona Klonarides reports for Gibraltar International Magazine (2581 KBytes, PDF) |
Own a Slice of The Ideal Vacation with Fractional Ownership
Article from Luxury Travel Magazine (summer 2007) (27546 KBytes, PDF) |
Books on Fractional Vacation Home Ownership
A list of books now available on Fractional Ownership along with links to sites where you can buy them. |
| Fractional Ownership Financing Resources |
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