Joint Venture Land Opportunities In The Uk

By Author: Kelly Leary
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The joint venture land opportunity of today is to anticipate where post-recession growth will increase demand for housing and businesses.


Land investors – especially those interested in investing in strategic land – are currently focused on the UK, where a chronic shortage of housing means demand for land is high – and growing.


Global and local economic forces, in combination, are making joint venture land opportunity investing a particularly compelling scenario for investors.


Let us analyse how that works and its consequences. To the land investor, the depressed price of real estate caused by the worldwide economic downturn is a distinct factor – and opportunity. An economic recovery could well unleash demand for housing and commercial construction, which would consequently increase the price of land with relative speed. In some jurisdictions, the desire to attract residents and businesses creates a willingness to enact a change of use on key parcels of land.


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... Investors who are wary of the exposure from “going it alone” instead use joint ventures to purchase, manage and resell land. This enables the purchase of larger and perhaps more strategic tracts of property, often without borrowing money. A joint venture will also corral the talents of specialists in real estate acquisition, development and management who provide an important bridge between financiers and real property. That expertise can allow the partnership to focus on the most profitable part of the land development process: acquiring sites that have been identified to come forward for residential or mixed-use development but do not yet have detailed plans or permissions.


More investors see such JV arrangements as enabling them to achieve a balanced, diversified portfolio. Real estate has historically performed well and is in fact the source of wealth creation for a large proportion of individuals of high net worth. Current market conditions are thought to provide a rare opportunity for rapid valuation increase.