When looking to diversify your investment portfolio, real estate is one of the best options available, but it isn’t always easy to get started. Finding the right place to invest can be a challenge, sometimes investors get overwhelmed, with many giving up on their real estate ambitions. Luckily, in recent years, companies like Arrived, Landa, and Roots have made real estate investing simple with transparent online platforms that are both easy to use and understand. Each of these platforms has its distinct advantages and disadvantages, which we will be diving into today.

If you’re looking for more flexibility, Arrived may suit you best because you can make fractional investments in residential or vacation homes, or invest in a portfolio of residential properties.

If you’re interested in trading shares of properties, then Landa may be the strongest option for you.

If you’re interested in a residential-focused real estate portfolio with low fees and a fund that has a one-of-its-kind social impact on its renters, Roots is the platform for you.

Below you'll find in-depth details of Roots, Arrived's Single Family Rental Fund, and Landa's platform, highlighting their differences across 4 dimensions: investment type, minimums, liquidity, and social impact.

Investment Type

Roots

Roots' REIT offers a portfolio of residential properties focused on the workforce housing segment currently in Atlanta and Augusta, GA, with expansion plans across the Southeast. Roots has a unique model where the renters of the properties have the opportunity to be invested in the fund for being good renters (paying rent on time, taking care of the property, and being good neighbors). This has led to low vacancy, low turn costs, and high returns for its investors, as you’ll see below.

Arrived Homes

Arrived offers four ways to invest: you can purchase a fractional share of a vacation rental, you can purchase a fractional share of a single-family property, you can buy real estate debt, or you can invest in the Single Family Residential Fund, which will be the focus of this article.

Landa

Landa is a mobile app investment platform where investors can invest in shares of single-family homes and small, multi-family residential rental properties. Unlike Roots, these are fractional shares and not a portfolio investment. Landa users make money from dividends distributed by the company and through buying and trading their shares.

Minimum Investments, Fees & Liquidity

Roots

Roots allows you to invest with a $100 minimum. Roots has a low fee structure, with only a $5 transaction fee per standard investment and a $3 transaction fee on any recurring investment. With Roots+, there are no transaction fees, so more of your money goes to work. If you need to liquidate your funds before one year, there is a 6% early withdrawal fee. There is no fee after any investment's one-year mark.

Roots offers the ability to liquidate quarterly as well, $100k or up to 5% of the fund. Roots has historically distributed to investors every quarter since inception (July 1, 2021- May 6, 2025).

Arrived Homes

Arrived's Single Family Residential Fund also has a $100 minimum, but has a 0.25% quarterly management fee. This fund is positioned as a longer-term investment with a six-month holding period on withdrawals. Liquidating before 5 years with the fund results in a 1-2% penalty.

Landa

The minimum amount you need to invest in a property share on Landa is $5. Fees for Landa include an acquisition fee of up to 6%, a property management fee of up to 8%, and up to $2 with each depositing or withdrawing transaction. Investors can deposit up to $100,000 a week, with a minimum deposit of $1 per transaction.

Investors can trade shares of a property on the Landa platform as long as all of the initial shares of the property have been sold. The liquidity of Landa is based on the supply and demand nature of the shares, which means there is never a guarantee that trading will be available.

When selling shares on Landa, you can set the price, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that someone will buy it.

Performance

All platforms have delivered returns to their investors with Roots generating some great returns.

Roots targets annual returns of 12–15%. It has met or exceeded this goal every year, delivering a 12.6% return over the past year (May 7, 2024 – May 6, 2025) and an average annual return of 17.2% since inception (July 1, 2021 – May 6, 2025). Dive into Roots' historical performance here.

Arrived’s Single Family Residential Fund has returned 4.8% over the last eleven months (May ’24 ‑ April ‘25).

Because of the way it functions, Landa’s trading returns are tied directly to the individual user.

Even though historically all three companies have delivered returns to investors, it’s important to remember that past results do not determine future success. Risks are always present when investing your money, so it’s important to understand what those risks are before making your first investment.

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Sources

• Roots - Social Impact
• Roots - Performance
• Arrived - Why are homes held in a Series LLC
• Arrived - How does Arrived make money?
• Arrived - What fees do investors pay to property managers?
• Arrived - Arrived Single Family Residential Fund
• Arrived - What returns can I expect from Arrived properties?
• Arrived - Single Family Residential Fund
• Landa - Business Model
• Landa - Selling My Shares
• Landa - Real Estate Investment
• Landa - Q1 2024 Update

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