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Where Does Strategic Land Rank Among Alternative Investments?

Alternative investments such as strategic land should be comparatively evaluated.While fraught with apples-to-oranges comparisons, would-be property funds investors should consider all alternative...

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Do All Joint Venture Participants Bring Expertise to the Investment?

Expertise is critical to joint venture investments - from any participant.Joint venture land development investors are largely involved to earn a favourable return on their capital. Most investments...

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How the Localism Act Can Affect Land Values

The decentralisation of decision-making relative to land use, as provided in the Localism Act 2011, might help or hinder land investors' return on investment.

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Do Real Asset Funds Make Sense in the Current Economy?

Real asset funds in land offer advantages not found in market-traded securities. Current economic conditions in particular provide distinct value growth opportunities.

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Strategic Land Investment Versus Stock and Bond Markets - A Comparison

The performance of stocks, bonds and REITs (real estate investment trusts) is based partly in the companies they represent and partly in overall market trends. This has proven to be dissatisfying to...

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Building Depreciation Versus Land Appreciation

The characteristics of property that contain buildings are different from undeveloped land. These differences affect value growth of both asset classes.

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Alternative Investments Minimizing Risk in Unknowns

A global survey compiled in 2012 by Towers Watson in conjunction with the Financial Times found that, in general terms, alternative investments are attracting more investment than in the past.

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What Are the Risks of Real Assets as an Investment?

Battered by an economic downturn over several years, investors in the United Kingdom are, like their counterparts in the European Union and the United States, looking for investments that maximise...

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Reasons Why the Time is Right for Land Investments

Almost everyone in the UK with assets to invest has some experience of buying built property. Whether in London or Manchester or Cardiff, the suburbs or the countryside, we are familiar with how to...

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Does Capital Growth in Strategic Land Require Building Structures?

This does not mean that historical buildings necessarily have to be demolished. Some developers are able to save barns and other aged structures to provide a development with character.

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Can Investors in Property Funds Participate at Varying Levels?

However, REITs are traded publicly and tend to rise and fall with general market trends. The owner of REIT shares has no involvement in the actual properties, therefore value growth is entirely a...

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Understanding Alternative Investment Funds

Real estate land funds are a type of alternative investment that can take many forms. These include everything from commercial property (industrial warehouses, retail centres, office buildings) to...

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Understanding Capital Growth Funds

Capital growth funds based in real estate are different from, say, those tied to the stock market. Fund managers look at the distinct and unique combinations of land tracts to maximise certain factors.

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What is the Root of Home Shortages in the UK?

It is conventional wisdom in the United Kingdom that there is a housing shortage. And while that in fact is quite true and is evident in the high cost of housing overall.

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Why Full-Scale Land Development is Not Solely Done by Homebuilders?

Homebuilders in the UK have traditionally functioned as developers. This means they took on everything from buying land to developing streets and utility infrastructure to building the homes.

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So, it's Free-for-All in Land Planning?

The Government is proposing some significant reforms to "provide a comprehensive plan to unleash one of the biggest home-building programmes this country has seen in a generation," in the words of...

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Cash vs. Debt Financing Which Has the Upper Hand in Buying Raw Land?

Investors from North America, the Middle East, China and elsewhere are drawn to the opportunity British investors see in this. Many are buying single homes and flats, operating as landlords as they...

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Is New Housing Construction Encouraged in the National Planning Policy...

In other words, planning has made some significant steps forward in ways that are friendly to development. If this attracts more investors to land and real estate, all the better. A growing UK...

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Land Planning Tied to Multiple Local Economic Factors

Government policy recognises this. The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 addressed the matter of regeneration and development as a means of economic stimulus in select regions.

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New UK Housing Sector Investor Advice

Consequently, private investors are now looking at rental housing for capital growth investments, and many financial advisors believe doing so can complement a diversified investment portfolio.

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