Methodology

Each platform's public listings are read once a day from its own feed or website. We record what the platform publishes, the whole-property price, the share or token price, the projected yield, the funding status and the location, and we label every projection as the platform's own. We do not adjust a yield, re-price a property or fill in a missing figure. A listing the platform removes drops off on the next sync. A listing that is funded, sold out or closed stays, labelled with that status, because it is still part of the market that exists.

Every listing gets a score from 0 to 100 that compares it with its peers. A peer is a listing in the same country and property type. When that group has fewer than five members the comparison widens to the country, and then to the whole index. Each metric is turned into a percentile within the group, so a 7% yield scores higher in a country where most listings pay 5% than in one where most pay 10%.

The percentiles are averaged inside four pillars, which are weighted:

• Income, 35%. Projected annual return, cap rate, occupancy.
• Momentum, 25%. How much of the raise is funded, shares sold per day over the last 30 days, how recently it was listed.
• Value, 20%. Price per square foot (lower is better), minimum investment (lower is better), number of holders.
• Transparency, 20%. How many of twelve key fields the platform publishes, plus documents, photos, coordinates and a source link.

A pillar with no inputs at all is dropped and its weight is spread over the others, so a platform that publishes no cap rate is not scored as if its cap rate were zero. Three penalties then apply. A listing with fewer than six of the twelve key fields is multiplied by 0.7. A listing that has not synced for seven days is multiplied by 0.85. A closed or sold-out listing is multiplied by 0.5. The result is clamped to 0 to 100 and banded:

• Exceptional: 85 and above.
• Strong: 70 to 84.
• Solid: 55 to 69.
• Mixed: 40 to 54.
• Weak: below 40.

Every score also carries a confidence grade based on how many inputs were present. The score says how a listing compares with similar listings on the figures its platform publishes. It says nothing about whether those figures will come true.

The top lists are regenerated on every visit from the index. The top-rated list ranks by score. The highest-yield list ranks by the platform's projected yield but caps each platform at three entries, so one projection model cannot fill the table. The under $100 list and the by-type and by-city lists filter first and rank by score second. Closed and liquidating platforms are labelled wherever their listings appear and never lead a list.

The Fractional Real Estate Index counts every listing of a single property on an integrated platform. Listed value is the sum of whole-property prices. Median yield is the middle value of every published projection, chosen over the average so one optimistic platform cannot pull it. Funds are not counted: a share of a pooled portfolio is not a share of an address. Closed listings are counted and labelled, and the monthly report gives totals with and without them.

The fees, exit terms and legal structure on each platform page come only from the platform's own pages, its terms of service or its regulator filings. Never from a review site, a comparison site or a press release. Each block names its source and the date we checked it. When a platform publishes no figure we write "not published" rather than an estimate, and the fee calculator says "at least" whenever a line is missing. When a platform's own pages disagree, we use the terms of service and say so in the note.

Reviews and head-to-heads are written by a named author from the same registry data, the platform's filings and its own announcements. They carry live index figures under the hero so the reader sees today's numbers, not the ones on the day of writing. No platform reviews a draft, and no platform pays for a review or a position. How we make money explains the rest.

Whether a projection is honest, whether a property is well run, or whether a platform will still exist next year. The score compares published figures. The structure pages explain what you would own if things go wrong. Nothing on Threeworld is investment advice, and we never hold or move your money.