MASTER INVESTOR

We interview and profile all the best minds in real estate to get an insight into their investment successes, methodology and psychology. Ordinary South Africans who have achieved financial independence and great wealth through astute property investing. Successful investors share their lessons learned, tips and strategies that investor’s can apply to their own personal strategies.

INVESTOR PSYCHOLOGY

Investor mindset is one of the keys to successful investing and accounts for more than 80% of investment success. REIM covers the psychological side of investing and how investors can use this to their advantage. We examine the minds of successful investors, expose their thinking, and more important, the application of their thinking, which investors can apply to their own investment strategies.

INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Traditionally property investors have operated under the premise of two strategies, short term or flip strategy. Application of strategies to make money, whether for financial freedom, generating large cash flows, retirement, pension planning, or just for a large cash return, including do-it- yourself, hands-on and hands-off investing, managed accounts, portfolio management, property development, real estate investment trusts (REITS), or listed properties.

INVESTOR INTELLIGENCE

Investor intelligence covers all innovations and insider information that investors can use to improve their strategies, from psychology and sentiment to real-life stories. We give updated information on investment seasons, investment tools, investing profitably, tax ideas and insider information to make you generally a better investor. We supply property data reports and property statistics.

RESIDENTIAL

Residential investing is where most millionaires have started to build their fortunes or who are building their wealth. It stands to reason that as the world’s population continues to rise and that there is no more land being created that real estate will always be a solid investment. Even with the economy and the property industry’s peaks and valleys that the need for housing will inevitably rise. Just like any investment you must study and learn about the market if you want to be successful and REIM covers all the principles of investing.

GETTING STARTED

This section focuses on both first time investors and giving guidance to professionals to make sure they apply the right strategies from day one. It is the “how to” of investing in property, we look at the processes and how and where to get information. This includes information for new investors on how to get investment help, resources, books, courses, CDs, educational programmes, to get it right the first time.

FINDING

Finding the best investment approach for your personal strategy using a hands-on or hands-off approach. This includes specific areas for finding property, potential investment hot spots, as well as the different types of property available. Investments include flats, apartments, town houses, new developments, existing houses, estates, sectional title, PIP’s (Property in Possession) as well as other categories of property.

ACQUIRING

Initial acquisition services such as legal due dilligence aspects of a property, for purchasing a property from the start. This includes identifying different entities the best suited process using structuring attorneys, valuers, home inspectors, conveyancing attorneys and construction and maintenance experts.

IMPROVING

Improving a property can immediately increase its capital value, if properly renovated, whether it be fixing and flipping. We give tips on how to do repairs, and identify the services and contractors used to improve a property, from general refurbishment to design, architects, kitchen and bathroom suppliers, flooring, carpeting, appliances, landscaping, partitioning, air-conditioning, etc.

FINANCING

The property industry is a major of financial institutions. Where and how to get finance using investor-friendly lenders. Types of financing, from conventional lenders like banks to investment lenders and mortgage originators, loans, savings and software to analyse investments. Also, articles covering tax advice, savings, creating cash flow through passive resources, as well as getting out of debt and financial planning.

MANAGING

The key to property growth and success is proper management and maintenance of your property portfolio, whether it is hands-on or hands-off management. Services providers included are property management companies and rental leasing agencies. Other areas covered are property management, rental management software, home insurance, sectional title, security, pest control, home inspection, rental insurance, and general maintenance.

 SELLING/TRADING

Selling a property is what most long-term investors try to avoid at all costs, or traders want to sell more regularly. We cover selling properties from both perspectives through giving tips for selling all types of property. We cover selling via estate agents on the buy-side and sell-side, auctioneers, distressed properties, sales, online selling, staging properties amongst other methods.

COMMERCIAL

Commercial property investment is more specialised, and is aimed at the advanced investor. We give you the inside track on how to find, assess, finance and purchase a commercial property for long-term investment. We cover the four main categories of commercial investment – retail, office, industrial and hospitality directly, through listed and unlisted funds. Commercial investing includes blocks of flats, hotels, guest houses, farm land, warehouses, garages, medical centres, parking spaces, strip malls, parking lots, storage units, warehouses, hospitals, billboards, amongst others.

OFFSHORE

Offshore investing is a specialist form of investing which takes investors to overseas markets with rand hedging opportunities. The core process and fundamentals of property investing remains the same but the country or destination of investment takes understanding markets, different properties, tax laws, and legal processes, to be a successful offshore investor. We educate investors so that they are equipped to invest in property anywhere in the world.