Two Former Goldman Sachs Execs Want to Make Real Estate Investments More Accessible – Here’s How
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August 11, 2025
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First-time real estate investors can face several hurdles when trying to get started: high upfront costs, dealing with tenants and maintenance, finding and closing on a suitable perty, and the fear that your initial investment won’t see a return, just to name a few
Now, there’s a company that handles all the grunt work and vides a money-back guarantee on your initial investment
Introducing mogul, the simplest way to own income-ducing blue chip real estate.Founded by former Goldman Sachs executives who have closed more than $10 billion in deals, they handle the sourcing, underwriting, and day-to-day management of every perty
To remove first-time jitters, mogul gives new investors their First-$10k tection Guarantee: If your initial investment of up to $10,000 loses value in the first year, mogul refunds every lost dollar
Investors in mogul portfolios have earned an average annualized return of 18.8%, paid out as monthly rental income plus appreciation
Start building a diversified perty portfolio in minutes while mogul absorbs the downside. ‘If we ever brag a 4% IRR, I will quit’Alex Blackwood and Joey Gumataotao, mogul’s co-founders, routinely surpassed 15-20% annual returns when closing deals at Goldman Sachs
When they looked at other real estate investment platforms at the time, they found those companies would often brag to those investors 4% annual returns on billions of dollars
As Alex says on mogul’s website, “If we ever brag a 4% IRR, I will quit immediately.” To date, perties in mogul’s portfolio have generated an average 10-12% annual cash-on-cash yield that hit users’ accounts as rent dividends each month
When long-term appreciation is included, historical performance rises to an 18.8% annualized returns, giving investors both regular income and capital growthPart of their success is due to the fact that mogul mogul apves fewer than one percent of perties reviewed
Each candidate asset must a 12% bear case hurdle rate before moving to the next level of diligence
You can browse eligible perties on mogul’s website and buy part or all of a house in under 30 seconds, or use the same data and tools available to top real estate firms to underwrite any perty across the U.S
Rent collections are aggregated and distributed to investors every month
At the same time, independent third-party valuations refresh inside your dashboard, letting you watch equity climb in real time while still enjoying depreciation and other pass-through tax advantages unique to real estate
More than $1.2 million was invested on mogul last month
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