Money

Issue No. 6 - July/September 2002

Property Partnership equals Wealth Creation

For most real estate investors, expanding their stake means adding another house or unit to their asset portfolio. For the more discerning investor, the commercial property market has a lot more appeal—the difficulty is access. Commercial property is how many of Australia’s 200 richest people made their fortunes, but it’s hard to make the quantum leap from rental property owner to the landlord of lettable business premises.

One way for smaller investors to make the grade is to cooperate in property syndicates. Each property syndicate—a group of investors—controls an investment vehicle, their property trust. The trust owns the commercial property (there may be more than one site).

Syndicate investors effectively share ownership of a multi-million dollar commercial property, a tax effective and secure investment that wins a high rate of return (as high as 9-10% per annum). Investors also share in capital growth of the property.

South Aus...

The rest of this article is available to in-business subscribers.
If you are a subscriber, please log in - click here.

Established in 2001, in-business is South Australia's leading independent local business knowledge source. We offer subscribers:

• a high quality bi-monthly magazine
• password access to our complete archives online from Issue 1
• regular SNAPSHOTS eNewsletter
• optional listing in our magazine business services directory called 'the team'

in-business has become one of South Australia's best networking packages delivering readers untold business opportunities.

To subscribe click here, or to receive a free trial copy click here.