For many families, fractional ownership allows efficient and affordable ownership of a vacation home. It’s a concept that just makes sense — why own 52 weeks of a second home when you’ll use it just six weeks? Expanding on the concept, some families have elected to own more than one fractional home. For example, owning at a location focused on summer use and at a winter location. Or, owning a fractional within driving distance for long-weekend use and also owning a fractional in a “fly-to” destination. Owning in more than one location offers diversity in use and scenery and STILL costs much less than owning a 52-week vacation home.

Vail Resorts, a $1Billion company, recently shifted 80% of their advertising budget to the internet. Vail Resorts cited quicker response times of internet and the unfortunately long lead time of traditional publications.

You’re seriously considering buying a second home or vacation home. What are your options? Is whole ownership the right choice? What about fractional or shared ownership? What’s more important to you – investment or enjoyment? This report answers these questions and more.

The recession has changed resort real estate shoppers’ purchasing power, values and behavior. Further, resort real estate and hotels may recover at differing paces. This article examines implications for developers, resort planners, and lenders.

Why buy 100% of a home just to use it 10% of the time?

Our family began exchanging in 1999 when we arranged to trade our full-time home in Bend, Oregon with a family from Guadeloupe in the French West Indies. It was an incredible exchange and our families remain great friends as a result of the home exchange. Through 2004, we continued to exchange our primary home with [...]

The fractional ownership industry has been around since the early 1980s, with roots tied to single homes in the Lake Tahoe (California) basin. Developers such as Carl Berry and Gordon McMahon developed homes and sold co-ownership shares in luxury built and furnished lakeside homes.
Over time, the concept evolved to resorts conceived and developed entirely around [...]

While we think FractionalExchange.com is the best thing going when it comes to exchanging vacation properties, we thought we’d share some other options with our members and website visitors.

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