Kingsley U.N Chikwendu
Real estate business has proven to be one of the long term ways to becoming affluent in life. Making use of different ideas, indices to add more spice to your estate are some of the ways to becoming successful in real estate investment. Real estate provides better or huge returns on investments; this is one of the reasons that made it a lucrative venture. Below are some of the factors that aid the growth of a real estate business.
Be careful in risk management
One of the most important ways to be relevant in any business is knowing how to manage business risks so as not to fall into debt. Before going into any real estate business or purchase for resell, ensure that the land does not have encumbrances and has a building plan approval, also ensuring that existing off takers and their mortgages are on ground. As an estate developer, one need to ensure that there are at least some financial reserves that can keep one going to take care of things like staff salaries and personal or family upkeep while sourcing or waiting for buyers. This will enable one not to hurryingly sell a property at a loss.
Also, by having a sizeable cash reserve, it puts a seller in a good stead to make some unexpected or expected repairs that may be required before putting an estate on the market. Managing these risks in the best possible way can significantly improve one’s chances of becoming successful in real estate business. Furthermore, one needs to be tolerant with some types of risk, these types require patience.
Develop estates that offer some value of utility
Develop estates that serve utility purposes through enhancing of ways to maximize their value to an environment. This gives a seller or owner the possibility of maximizing more profits on a single investment property. It could be by renting or making use of a space within an estate that can generate rental income from it, which previously was not bringing the envisaged income.
Also, there are attractions that an owner or seller can add to his estate that will generate more income. These include service apartments or car parks inside or at the front of an estate in a busy business environment. An owner of an estate can decide to apply this index, instead of buying a home, renovating and waiting for a buyer, he can fill it with a tenant(s). Immediately tenants have moved in, the search for buyers starts while he uses the money from the tenants to attend to some other bills.
Adhere to real estate investment rules. Even when advocating for utility in real estate business, one is still expected to follow the rules that come with it. Be careful about investing in a business environment that is totally off from the type of business allowed in that environment. For example, don’t assume that another room or building can be added to an existing one, understand what it takes first before commencing on such.
The need to understand your immediate market environment is key.
It is massively important to be kept abreast with your immediate market environment than focusing on what is happening at the general market because, the success of your business will be most influenced by factors in your immediate real estate market. What is pertainable at the general market or nationwide may be different from what transpires in a local market, focus should be on the location of an estate within the market. A local market may offer better than the general in terms of phases in expansion. That is, where chances of good sales are high, affordability is great, construction is low and good prospect of more capital investment is high.
This is also saying that emphasis should be made on investing in neighborhoods that have high population, developing, and have the necessary basic amenities like access to medical care, schools, markets, parks or leisure environments, transportation, good roads, shopping malls etc. A real estate developer should strive to excel and grounded with his exact market environment before having focusing attention beyond his environment.
Invest in areas that command economic utility.
Avoid areas dependent on a single economic driver because when it fails, it leads to consequential declines in home value in such areas. Put considerations on areas that are diversified economically and feel a sense of safety should any sector crumble.
