How to Make Money in Real Estate?

Written by Posted On Thursday, 21 May 2015 03:06

When it comes to investing in real estate sector, people always have few questions to ask to experts such as: What is the true investment potential of real estate sector and how one can make money from this investment? There is no formula to success in this sector but a simple way is: buy property, hold it, and sell it when prices shoot up. Moreover, in the following article, you can learn how to make money by investing in real estate sector.

Capital Appreciation

It is basic and the surest form of making profit from real estate investment. Capital appreciation means increase in value of the given property and this value varies from property to property. You might also have to pay different types of costs as well for holding property such as property tax but with time, the value increases. However, you will only realize about the value appreciation through property selling.

Buying & Selling Plots

Another sure form of making money from real estate is through buying plots and selling them ahead later in the same condition or after building properties on them. When the major cities expand, plots become more and more valuable even though they are in the outskirt of the city. Profits increase further if you build houses on these plots and sell them ahead.

Residential Properties

Investing in residential properties is another best way of making profit from real estate sector. While buying residential properties, people usually consider location as the biggest factor in appreciation. Therefore, if you are planning to invest in residential real estate, keep few factors in view including location, proximity to commercial centre, schools, playgrounds and availability of other communal facilities so that you can get great numbers of buyers for your property and receive higher value at the time of selling.

If you are buying residential property solely for investment purpose to get profit after selling it, you can rent it out as well till you get decent profit and a serious property buyer. Moreover, home improvements can spur value appreciation but it all depends upon the property owner that what kind of refurbishments he wants in the home before renting or selling it out.

Commercial Properties

Commercial properties are deemed as the best mode of making money from real estate investment but it certainly means you will have to spend heft amount to buy one. Like residential properties, this investment is also about location and development. Make sure that you pick the best commercial property which is in demand and is also expected to offer good returns in future. Moreover, you can make money for life by renting out your commercial property ahead and no need to sell it to cash in on the value appreciation.

After all these pointers, keep another factor in view that property values do not always increase at a constant rate. You may have to wait for years to bag handsome profit. However, one cannot overlook the impact of inflation on the capital appreciation of properties. If you have bought a plot worth $40,000 in 1980, and it remained as it was, it would still be worth many times more today, because of economic inflation. It shows inflation alone causes appreciation in real estate sector.

Buying low, selling high and renting out are the ways to make money in real estate sector and now on the basis of these pointers, you can decide where to invest in real estate to make profit.

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Khadija Aslam

Khadija Aslam is a marketing analyst at homespakistan.com and she writes on a variety of subjects including business, real estate, travel etc. Check her blog and find her on twitter, facebook, google+.

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