Top 10 Gold Rush Property Assets of 2012

This blog will be divided into 10 parts over 10 weeks, as Inside Investor reveals its Top 10 Gold Rush Property Assets of 2012.

There is no doubt that the reason why the super rich real estate investors make millions from real estate investing is mainly because they invest in emerging gold rush property assets. They do not chase after dying property assets, like the average investor. Property tycoons like, the Reuben Brothers and Samuel Zell don't ever put their smart earned cash into buy-to-let properties, HMOs and holiday homes. Instead, they aim to pioneer specific emerging property asset, make millions and then sell-up when average investors come rushing in to buy that property asset.

A property asset that has been topping the shopping list of the super rich property investors, and coming in at No. 10 on our list is Data Centres. A record £2.19 billion is expected to be invested in data centres in the UK between 2011-2012, according Data Centre Dynamics' market research. What's fuel the demand for this gold rush property asset in the transition from server hosting to cloud computing. Additionally, the rise of video on demand, apps storage and an explosion of web content for hand-held devices and e-book readers mean that all the digital content created needs to be stored in externally secure locations.

The exciting thing about this asset is that, unlike other property assets, data centre (a growing part of the UK's commercial property sector), is expected to grow, between 7% to 19% depending on size of facility. Also, the rental yields forecast for 2012 ranges from 9% to 17% per annum. Recent reports have confirmd that real estate titan, Peter Beckwith of PMB Holding will invest £35 million in the development of a massive data centre in Milton Keynes, completion date summer 2012. Clearly, to the super rich property investors, the notion of a property crash is complete non-sense, as they continue to get richer from acquiring gold rush property assets.

To find out what the top 20 Gold Rush Property Assets of the decade are, read further, Surviving Amid The Rubble, by KT Cunningham or email us.. 

Discover why inside investors are chasing green real estate?

Savvy investors who have successfully survived periods of economic downturns know its hard work to stay afloat in a down economy. Whereas, investors who have been financially battered have become increasing frustrated with buying traditional property assets. Generally, in times of economic hardship, traditional property assets tend to lose their appeal. However, it is only the average investors who tend to sit back and wait for the next boom economy, whilst inside investors switch to new real estate sectors.

Amidst the recent financial and economic chaos, inside investors have been doing just that; switching their focus to new property sectors, in particular, green real estate. The green real estate sector can be defined as a convergence between green technology and the reinvention of ageing property assets, such as landfill sites reinvented into landfill gas fields (lgf). The green real estate sector consists of property assets, such as, solar farms, agro-fuel estates, biomass refineries, energy from waste facilities, solar car parks and bio-fuel plantations to name a few. An astonishing US$211 billion was invested in green tech and green real estate in 2010, up by US$51b on 2009 figures. As a result, green real estate is the most highly sort after real estate asset among real estate millionaires and there are some excellent reasons for this.

Firstly, inside investors are adding green real estate assets to their portfolio due to the knowledge that it attracts near zero taxes and other types of investment incentives. Under Governments' legislation in the UK and Europe, investors operating in the green real estate sector pay less taxes, in comparison to their counterparts investing in mainstream commercial property assets. Green property assets, such as, a recycling centre is almost a tax free investment. In other cases, investors benefit from other incentives, such as, government loan guarantees, grants, feed-in-tariffs, tax rebate and tax credit. Such incentives and promotional policies helped in making this sector recession proof over the last five years.

Second, but not last, inside investors are in love with green real estate assets because, unlike other property assets, it offers investors three to four sources of income. Generally, most property assets give investors a rental income. However, green real estate provides investors with carbon credit income, feed in tariff income plus rental income. Inside investors become mega rich by acquiring high performing assets that provide them with multiple streams of income.

To find out how you can get into the green property sector and make millions, email us for a copy of our free report on green real estate investments.