COVID-19 has helped fuel activity in a burgeoning part of the commercial real estate finance and investment world. : In an environment where more activity in general has been forced online, investors are getting increasingly comfortable buying and selling commercial real estate that way as well, including in the small, but burgeoning world of crowdfunding. Depending on the scope of their platforms, groups including Realty Mogul, ArborCrowd and Crowdstreet have raised hundreds of millions of dollars from both accredited investors and non-accredited investors since the start of the crisis caused by the coronavirus.