Some of the most lucrative property investments can be found by buying into property developments. These developments can be commercial or residential and are mostly off-the-plan property types such as industrial parks, offices or town-houses, apartments, units or duplexes.
The benefits of buying off-the-plan include: savings on Stamp Duty in certain states, especially Melbourne, lower cash deposits or alternative forms of deposit such as bank guarantees or deposit bonds, maximum tax benefits including depreciation, opportunities for re-design and longer settlement options, creating capital growth potential.
Other advantages include 100% re-financing at current market value if settlement takes longer than 12 months and opportunities to on-sell the property before finalization of settlement. However, with advantages come disadvantages and these can include: projects that start late or not at all, projects that do not meet your expectations, developers and builders who experience financial difficulty/ liquidation, stalled or delayed projects that tie up your deposit.
Try to avoid most of these issues by ensuring all contracts are professionally reviewed by you as well as by your legal advisors. Generally contracts should include the following: floor and building plans, site and electrical plans as well as a list of property inclusions such as white goods and appliances, landscaping, security doors, floor and window coverings, heating and cooling, cupboards and storage etc. This list should also detail quality benchmarks for each.Protect yourself by understanding exactly what inclusions are contractually yours. This will ensure that you receive the property you have paid for.
Property investor has listings for some of the best off-the-plan developments currently available. Click onto the website, select your property type and start searching for your next great property deal.
DevelopersProperty Investor welcomes contact from developers who have development properties that they are interested in listing with us. These properties can be recently completed, close to completion or off-the-plan options. Developers will benefit from property investor’s easy to navigate website design with key features such as targeted search and featured property listings and multi-view photo, video and floor-plan lay-outs.
Listing information can be tailored to your needs or retained as supplied by you and is presented clearly and concisely to efficiently and successfully promote your development to as many investors as possible.
Property Investor can also supply other vital information with your listing to make sure investors target your property development such as property brochures, depreciation and research reports on your property listings as well as effective tools for investors to assess their borrowing needs via a range of financial tools including borrowing capacity, investment, repayment and stamp duty calculators.
Property Investor is also committed to search engine optimization techniques to make sure that your property is seen by as many investors as possible. We have taken considerable time and effort to target search engine key words that link to our website and thus optimize web traffic to your listings.
Added features such as email alerts, updates and options on social networking sites such as Facebook allow investors to follow us, and let us dynamically tap into and build on our core customer base, meaning more ‘hits’, views and business success for your property listings. Coupled with our extensive property investment industry experience, we are confident that Property Investor will meet and exceed the needs of your business.
Contact us now for more information on how we can effectively promote your next exciting development opportunity to our growing base of property investors.