Andrew Vaughey Investment Help

Author: Ty Hallsted

I’ve been investing in real estate since the early ’80s. I’ve done rentals, rehabs, some wholesaling, and some lease options. I’ve done rent-to-owns and raised and repaid over a half million dollars in private capital to fuel my efforts.

And I’ve learned some valuable lessons along the way…

I’ve learned that real estate investing is a lot of work, with no shortage of pitfalls, and that rentals aren’t nearly as passive as I thought they’d be. In short, real estate investing can be a real mine field and navigating through it takes considerable time, knowledge and resources.

At least I thought it did.

In 2006 I was researching pre-construction condos and condo conversions when I stumbled onto LandBanking.

Landbanking? I thought I knew all about real estate — but I’d never heard of this before. So my antennae went up and I began learning all I could about LandBanking.

What is it? Well, it has nothing to do with safe-deposit boxes full of sod. And, it isn’t new, though the term may be. In fact, the basic LandBanking strategy is as old as civilization and private property rights. It’s as proven a strategy as any real estate strategy can be. In a nutshell, the strategy is to locate land in the path of near future development, buy it, then wait for development to approach and developers to offer you a whole lot more for the land than you paid for it.

If the metropolitan area where you live has been growing, I’m sure you’ve seen this in practice. Farmers typically will sell some or all of their fields to developers who will then build commercial or residential units on the land.

So what makes this the best real estate investment strategy? Three things - the tremendous appreciation potential, the absence of all the hassles and headaches normally associated with real estate investing and the ability to go it alone or partner with experienced professionals.

If you have the interest, time and financial resources to find these valuable land parcels and negotiate their price, it would be hard to find a better or safer investment for your money. Some of the wealthiest throughout history have used Landbanking to start or grow their wealth. Today, Donald Trump owns one of the last large undeveloped land parcels in Manhattan - 100 acres along the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd streets. Bob Hope owned thousands of acres near Palm Springs, Phoenix and Malibu and 10,000 acres in San Fernando valley when it was little more than orange groves. Howard Hughes also held large amounts of land in or near Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

If you think those opportunities are gone, think again. Until the US population starts to decrease, or the amount of land starts to increase (hope you’re not holding your breath for either of those), the law of supply and demand will continue to push land prices ever higher. With few exceptions, most metropolitan areas in the country have been growing. And that means the land around them is becoming more valuable.

If you like the idea and the potential of LandBanking, but lack the time or financial resources, you can still participate by partnering with a professional. This is where the hassle-free part comes in. There are companies in the US that specialize in acquiring tracts of land for LandBanking and share the opportunity with would-be LandBankers who lack the time and financial resources to go it alone.

Instead of needing countless hours and millions of dollars to LandBank independently, you can become a LandBanker with a couple hours of due diligence and a few thousand dollars. Not much more time or effort than investing in a mutual fund. No searching out quality land (that’s already done), no negotiating (already done), no tedious and complicated closings (a few simple and straightforward documents), no tenants, no contractors. In short, no headaches and no hassles - just the ability to passively and affordably become a LandBanker and claim your share of LandBanking wealth.

Author: kumaran bush

Commercial real estate investing is a kind of investing which is used for business purpose. The commercial real estate investing property is different from other real estate investing like agriculture, residential and other industrial purpose. Commercial real estate investing property provides reasonable price consideration from the investment property and also provides income for long period. In real estate investing, real estate investors make investment on commercial real estate investing. Commercial real estate investing is made by most of the real estate investors, because it fetches more profit for the seller at the time of sale of real estate investment property.

The main purpose why people prefer to make their real estate investing is that commercial real estate investing provides stability and high return in the market. The other advantage we obtained from commercial real estate investing is that it provides investment securities for the real estate investment property purchased from the real market. Real estate investing market is said to be the stable market and it also carries high returns on investment for the property purchased. It is the obligation of the real estate investor to see that the real estate investing property fetch more profit among the customer and it realize more profit. Some of the standard features of commercial real estate investing are

High return
The main advantage of commercial real estate investing property is that it carries high return on investment. More number of people procures real estate property because of its returns provided. Real estate investor enjoys the benefits provided by the real estate property with high return and turnover during the period of sale of real estate investment property. Real estate sector is the wide sector where it carries huge number of properties required with desire prices.

Stability
The other unique feature of commercial real estate investing property is that its stability and consistency with the world market. When though more number of real properties are available in real estate investing market, still commercial estate investment obtains more demand among the customers for reasonable price consideration. Real estate investing benefits are provided more in real estate investing and it is due to the stability provided in the real market.

Author: Rhiannon Williamson

Real estate is a tried and tested asset class and the majority of people agree that as a long term investment commodity there is nothing really to beat it for consistently returning strong growth and increasing yields?however, when a country’s housing market goes temporarily cold as real estate prices move outside of the affordability gap, real estate investors often look overseas for the development of their property based portfolio.

Currently the real estate markets in countries such as the UK and US are slow and the ability to profit from property locally is reduced - therefore more people than ever are thinking about moving their focus abroad and starting an overseas real estate portfolio to enable them to build a passive income for life.

If you would like to learn more about building a passive income for life from investing in overseas real estate here are the main five considerations to bear in mind to maximize profit, reduce risk, increase yields and capitalize on opportunities as they present themselves - but before we begin it is always prudent to mention that the value of any investment can always go down as well as up, and that investment decisions should be taken carefully and be made with the assistance of qualified and experienced advisors.

Tip One - Real estate markets around the world emerge, boom, go bust and re-emerge all over again, but they do so at very different points in time as each market is heavily dependent on the current state of the economy in the given country. As we all know economies ebb and flow like the tide and there is no such thing as a guaranteed market where property prices will keep rising. However, there are countries in the world going through major economic change where the real estate market is emerging and where the long term forecast is for a period of prolonged growth. An investor who is not risk averse and who is planning an overseas real estate portfolio should try and identify which countries have a strengthening economy and an emerging real estate market.

Tip Two - Having found an emerging market an investor needs to determine the key factor that makes an investment into real estate in the given country a good decision. I.e., if a country’s property market is simply booming because of hype and an investor can see nothing to support the long term success of the market then they should walk away. If an investor can see massive room for growth but an interfering government who may attempt to restrict property investors from taking their profits then an investor has to decide whether or not they can still make enough profit from real estate to make any investment worthwhile.

Tip Three - Having determined that there is potential within a given market an investor needs to learn how to harness the power of other people’s money! As real estate is an expensive and slow to liquidise commodity it is unwise to pay cash from personal funds for an investment property, rather it’s wise to raise finance at a low interest rate from a secure financial institution. An investor should look into whether an international mortgage or a local mortgage is possible and affordable when buying overseas real estate.

Tip Four - As previously stated, over the long term real estate is considered by many to be one of the most consistently returning asset classes - the key to this consistent success is however the ‘long term’ bit! I.e., when buying real estate abroad for capital growth and rental yield it pays to be able to keep that real estate for ten years or more to ensure the greatest reward is derived from the investment.

Tip Five - And finally, having determined that the key factors exist to suggest that a property market has legs to run and that any hype surrounding its progress is based on fundamentally accurate facts as detailed in Tip Two, an investor need to ensure they buy real estate that will suit the market demand that is making the real estate market successful! Therefore if the baby boomers are driving a given market consider buying single level properties in secure communities, if on the other hand the young professionals are driving the market think about purchasing well located, designed and facilitated apartments.