Relli was founded in 2023 in Irvine, California, out of a problem our founders ran into as investors. They had built long-term portfolios in the public markets and wanted real estate to hold a meaningful place beside them.
The routes open to an individual investor were limited. Public REITs offer exposure to real estate, but no say in which properties you own or who operates them. Buying a property directly calls for substantial capital, construction and operating expertise, and time. And most investing platforms are built around a single sponsor, often with a narrow range of property types.
Meanwhile, the real estate that institutions invest in, such as apartment communities, shopping centers, commercial properties and energy projects, remained largely out of reach. Those offerings were raised privately, among a sponsor’s own relationships and institutional partners.
Relli was built to open that market.
Relli is a marketplace where established sponsors list their offerings side by side. These are firms with years of experience acquiring and operating real estate across multifamily, commercial and energy. The sponsor manages the investment: the acquisition, the tenants, the operations and the reporting. The investor decides where to invest.
For sponsors, Relli provides something most did not have: a way to work with investors beyond their existing networks. A number of the sponsors on Relli had never offered their investments this way before, and each one is reviewed before it is listed.
For investors, Relli makes real diligence possible: the terms, the documents and the sponsor’s track record for every offering, and a conversation with the sponsor before any decision. Offerings can be compared by goal, whether income, balanced or growth. And because the minimum for an offering is a fraction of the cost of buying a property outright, an investor can build a position across several sponsors, strategies and markets.
Relli is run by a small, dedicated team. We are still early, and we continue to build.
