High Returns, Higher Risks: When Yieldstreet’s “Can’t-Miss” Real Estate Deals Go Wrong

The OMC Real Estate Podcast · Sep 3, 2025

High Returns, Higher Risks: When “Can’t-Miss” Real Estate Deals Go Wrong In this first episode of our new series, we break down one of the biggest cautionary tales in private real estate investing: Yieldstreet’s real-estate losses. Once known for “investing like the 1%,” Yieldstreet promised ordinary investors access to premium real estate deals—until rising rates, falling property values, and aggressive assumptions sent multiple projects into default. We’ll unpack: What really happened in deals like the Nashville high-rise and the $1 New York sale. Key red flags: floating-rate loans, thin…