The eleventh annual Ragatz survey of shared-ownership resort real estate in North America covered 331 fractional interest projects and private residence clubs, along with five destination clubs.

Peter Yesawich of the YPartnership has made some predictions for fractionals in his end of year blog posts. Overall things are looking up. 

Ragatz Associates recently issued its study covering the first six months of 2010 for the fractional market in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. As expected, 2010 to date has not been a great year. Some media coverage trumpeted the supposed woes of the whole fractional industry. We respectfully and firmly disagree with this perspective.

A report recently published by fractional industry expert Dr. Dick Ragatz revealed a potentially lucrative $9 billion fractional real estate market in Australia and New Zealand. The Registry Collection, the world’s largest luxury exchange program and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands under the RCI® umbrella (NYSE: WYN), commissioned the report to provide insights from leading companies within the fractional market to local property developers. The report includes the first-ever consumer research study on the fractional product in Australia and New Zealand conducted by market research firm Bergent Research.

The size of the North American shared ownership market dropped to $860 million, according to research reported today by Ragatz Associates.

This article briefly summarizes several trends noted by NorthCourse in their 2009 report.