About Shared Ownership

As the industry’s first luxury exchange provider, The Registry Collection ® program is poised to help you enter the shared ownership industry - whether it be picking the optimal destination, designing the use plan that’s right for you, or providing you sales and marketing assistance.

How can shared ownership complement your business?

Industry overview numbers

5,300 shared ownership resorts around the world
Approximately 350 are recognized as “luxury shared ownership”
Vacation ownership resorts boast a 76-percent occupancy rate, compared to 64 percent in the traditional hotel industry

The Registry Collection member profile*

Household income average is $208,000 – and two-thirds of TRC member households earn more than $125,000 annually
48 percent own more than one second home
37 nights of annual vacation per family
Our members in North America have an 88-percent overall satisfaction rate with their luxury resort real estate ownership

Shared Ownership Developments

Since its creation, the vacation ownership industry has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, including global brands as well as smaller luxury brands. More and more, resort developers are finding that including a shared ownership component in their mixed use resort property can help create additional steady revenue streams and find synergies to help weather the economic cycles of the travel and real estate industries.

With vacation ownership, sometimes referred to as timeshare, you sell rights to your property to multiple parties. Typically, developers sell vacation ownership interests in either one-week or multi-week intervals or as packages of points that can be used to reserve resort accommodations.

Shared ownership of the property also entitles buyers to certain usage rights, usually in the form of weeks. Conceptually, fractional ownership, sometimes also referred to as a Private Residence Club (PRC) is different than traditional timeshare. Fractional or PRC ownership affords much of the freedom and usage benefits offered in timeshare, however, the fundamental difference with this type of ownership is that the purchaser owns part of the title (as opposed to units of "time"). Therefore, if the property appreciates in value, then so do the shares. As with whole ownership, fractional/PRC owners can offer to sell whenever they deem necessary or prudent, potentially releasing the capital growth from their real estate purchase.

Typically, fractional interest resorts and Private Residence Clubs are considered Luxury Shared Ownership properties often due to the resorts’ superior location, level of construction, amenities, service level, unit quality and sales price. However, many high-end timeshare properties share most of the same qualities as fractional interest and PRCs and are therefore also considered Luxury Shared Ownership resorts.

Glossary of industry terminology

*Source: The Registry Collection Membership Profile Survey, Q4 2013