A natural course of questioning when evaluating the merit of real estate investing is to wonder what skill sets are needed to succeed in the business. This is of course beyond wondering if you have the knowledge and the financial capacity to handle real estate purchases, but these are topics for other articles.

As far as actual skills go, I don’t think there are many that you actually need to have to get into the busin Continue Reading

Real estate is all about profit and money and a real estate syndicate is always about creating value in terms of profits and minimizing tax liabilities (usually).

In the syndicate, the real estate asset is divided into two or more ‘investment units’ which are acquired by the individual investors. It is important to realize that the investment unit refers to the particular asset that is acquired by the investors, and Continue Reading

Those who, like myself, have been active in real estate investing for some time know that the formula for success relies on being able to work in the real estate field at more than one level.

The reason for this is that real estate, by nature, is very volatile. To rely on exactly one strategy or one area is akin to putting all our eggs in one basket and no real estate investor worth his salt wants to be caught out like t Continue Reading