HOW ARE PRIVATE EQUITY REAL ESTATE MAKING MONEY?
Private Equity Real Estate is an asset class consisting of
equity and debt investments in property. Investments mainly involve an active
management strategy ranging from moderate reposition or releasing of properties
to development or extensive redevelopment.
The Indian real estate sector has been improved a quick pace
growth over the last few years with its stakeholder profile evolving from
locally-focused, privately owned enterprises to increasingly corporatized,
professional organizations funded with
public capital and having multiple market and product strategies.
As a result, Indian real estate has seen a remarkable flow
of capital in recent years, both from foreign and domestic sources. The
developer community is adapting to the requirements of joint venture
arrangements with capital sources by providing improved transparency and higher
professional standards. The preferences of commercial space occupies as well as
residential space buyers are improving in designs, engineering and construction
quality.
The segmented nature of the developer community provides
scope for Real Estate Private Equity (REPE) funds to source off market
investment opportunities and strategic relationships. This has led to Indian
high net worth individual (HNI) viewing domestic REPE funds as a preferred
asset class for diversified investment.
The demand for quality residential and commercial real
estate investors is proven and sustainable than small retail investors since
the minimum ticket size in most funds is Rs.25 lakhs. There are many strategies
are adopted for private equity fund managers. Among them the most important are
core investing, core plus investing, value added investing, and opportunistic
investing. However the tracking trends in this industry serves as invaluable
and measurable indicator to assess investors ‘ real estate allocation in their
equity portfolios, in addition to helping answer the question of whether to
gain access through direct ownership of real estate or via a passive strategy
through publicly traded assets.
Private equities primarily focus on superior risk-adjusted
yields. The main objectives of private equities are the attraction of
capital, sourcing and qualifying investment opportunities, fund and investment
structuring, and exit strategies
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Direct investment versus private equity investment
While investing directly a property allows you to possess
the property, but it also requires more work such as to first identify the location and a property where it is
having a growth potential and vicinity. Then the person has to do certain
paperwork, that it should be registered , and find a tenant if the person wants
to earn a regular income. If the person goal is for capital appreciation, than
the process again prolongs as by finding a purchaser that makes the person to
cross his target.
In a private equity fund you have to just put the money and
the fund takes care of everything else. The advantage of private equity funds
are that the investment spreads the risk by investing in projects across the
locations. As an investment in a PE fund is a private contract between the fund
and the investor, the funds avoids divulging their valuations and returns
yielded by their investments.
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