Property Fund Partners and their Role in Land Investment by Bradley Weiss

The investor looking to take advantage of real estate opportunities is wise to find property fund partners to manage his or her risk.

The uncertainties and risks associated with all investments – publicly traded stocks and bonds as well as alternative investments such as hedge funds and real assets (real estate, for example) – require all investors to work with trusted and competent advisors. Nowhere is this more important than when investing in land. Variability between real estate choices compels the investor in most instances to work with property fund partners who know how to mitigate risk and maximise returns. These partners will work with its own in-house team of experts as well as strategic partners across the market.

The confident lone investor may be someone with an education and career experience in land and land development. But the vast majority of investors choose to work through a diversified portfolio fund, where the smart acquisition and management of multiple parcels of property limit their exposure. The fund or funds they select are only as strong as the expertise and skills of the land fund managers.

It is those skills that enable the property fund partners to succeed for their client-fund participants. They identify where the maximum asset returns can be found and what optimal external factors are present. Externalities include local development and planning schemes, trends within a local economy and competing properties in the district. Fund managers also assemble a portfolio of properties with a variety of characteristics that will take advantage of a variety of market conditions – again, to mitigate exposure.

Add to this the fact that investors have their own set of tax strategies that can be affected by land investing and it's clear that property fund partners play a vital role in creating a holistically profitable asset for the investor.

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