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What is Real Estate?
Real estate is real property that consists of land and improvements, which include buildings, fixtures, roads, structures, and utility systems. Property rights give a title of ownership to the land, improvements, and natural resources such as minerals, plants, animals, water, etc.
OVERVIEW OF THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY
Types of Real Estate
There are several types of real estate, each with a unique purpose and utility. The main categories are:
Land
Land is the baseline for all types of real property. Land typically refers to undeveloped property and vacant land. Developers acquire land and combine it with other properties (called assembly) and rezone it so they can increase the density and increase the value of the property.
Residential
Residential real estate consists of housing for individuals, families, or groups of people. This is the most common type of estate and is the asset class that most people are familiar with. Within residential, there are single-family homes, apartments, condominiums, townhouses, and other types of living arrangements.
Commercial
Commercial property refers to land and buildings that are used by businesses to carry out their operations. Examples include shopping malls, individual stores, office buildings, parking lots, medical centers, and hotels.
Industrial
Industrial real estate refers to land and buildings that are used by industrial businesses for activities such as factories, mechanical productions, research and development, construction, transportation, logistics, and warehousing.
Real estate investing involves the purchase, ownership, management, rental and/or sale of real estate for profit. Improvement of realty property as part of a real estate investment strategy is generally considered to be a sub-specialty of real estate investing called real estate development. Real estate is an asset form with limited liquidity relative to other investments, it is also capital intensive (although capital may be gained through mortgage leverage) and is highly cash flow dependent. If these factors are not well understood and managed by the investor, real estate becomes a risky investment.
Let’s explore how the industry works and what the major jobs and careers are. The real estate industry can be divided into several different areas:
- Development
- Sales and marketing
- Brokerage
- Property management
- Lending
- Professional services (law, accounting, etc.)
Why Choose Us?
A Smoother Investment Journey
Our genuinely diversified portfolios spread risk to deliver a more predictable outcome, while our forward-looking risk management aims to provide a smoother investment journey.
The Co-Brookfield Real Estate Advisory Team
The Co-Brookfield Real Estate Advisory Team comprises 22 Investment Advisory Professionals working out of London, Madrid, Milan and Stockholm. The Team has experience analysing and investing across the Pan-european, north America, Asian real estate market and has advised on over 120 real estate projects across the globe and multiple asset classes.
Capitalising The Urbanisation Trends
The Co-Brookfield Real Estate Team’s focus lies on identifying investment opportunities in European gateway cities with strong demographics including above-average GDP, infrastructure development and employment growth. By focusing on supply constrained submarkets within gateway cities benefiting from positive urbanisation trends, the team identifies investment opportunities to create sustainable value. The Team is constantly evaluating new real estate investment opportunities in the key regions the UK, the Nordics, France and Germany, Washington DC, Florida, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Japan by utilizing ZAM’s extensive network of Advisors, knowledge from its “local with locals” approach and on-the-ground investment advisory professionals.
Transition To Core
The strategy within the Co-Brookfield Real Estate funds’ investments is to support a transition to core, focusing on sustainable value creation through leveraging the Real Estate Investment Advisory Team’s “hands-on” asset management capabilities. The Team looks for direct and indirect investment opportunities in real estate assets that offer significant potential for value creation through repositioning, redevelopment, refurbishment and active asset management.
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Exploring Investment Opportunities
The Team, seeks to identify control or co-control equity investments in medium-sized infrastructure companies that provide an essential service to society, are recession resilient, have secure cash flows and ideally, offer some inflation protection. The typical equity investment opportunity ranges between EUR 200 million and EUR 800 million.
Several types of opportunities, including stand-alone operating infrastructure companies, infrastructure assets that have evolved into corporate orphans and government privatisations are evaluated by the Team. Ideal investment targets are operating companies in industries with regulated infrastructure, concession based infrastructure, market-driven infrastructure or infrastructure-related services.
When it comes to investments themes and sectors, the focus is on companies within the energy, transport & logistics, environmental, telecom and social sectors.
Joining forces for development
Once a portfolio company has been acquired, Co-Brookfield appoints a Board of Directors with a Chairperson, supported by other sector/industry specialists and a ZAM Infrastructure partner. The Board of Directors defines and monitors strategic plans and ensures that management gets the appropriate support and resources to run the portfolio company in an efficient, responsible and accountable manner.