Benefits & Real Estate Agents

Posted by nabeelshaukat on September 2nd, 2010

There are many benefits of real estate investment; some of them are listed below:

?     One of the most important benefits of real estate investment is that it produces consistent income streams just like bond or stock, and leads to capital growth.

?     The income generated from real estate investment is directly connected to the rent payments received from tenants. If the rent is high in the market then the income generated from real estate would also be high.

?     Most importantly you can get considerable benefits due to the appreciation in property value because property always appreciates, not depreciates. 

?     Real estate is a tangible investment you can see it and touch it.

?     Real estate investment has no fixed maturity date like bonds. You can use your property whenever you want.

?     In real estate markets, the information is efficiently disseminated among market participants that permit the investors to see return opportunities before investing in real estate properties.

?     Due to the tangible nature of real estate, proper management and timely maintenance is required.

?     The liquidity of real estate investment is low, because no public exchange exists for the dealing of real estate.

?     The public real estate market has low sale and purchase costs, whereas, private real estate market has high transaction costs.

?     The location factor of real estate affects the price of property. So avoid making investment in an area which has low popularity.

Real Estate Agents

Real estate transactions are vary complicated, and an unprofessional person or a person who don?t know about the process of real estate transactions cannot complete a transaction successfully, and he will be making many mistakes in following the procedure to complete a real estate transaction. So, its better for you to take services of a real estate agent. A real estate agent is a person or party who works as an intermediary between buyer (who wish to buy), and seller (who wish to sell), and helps both of them in making a final deal. Real estate agents have practical experience as well as theoretical knowledge about the real estate properties. Some benefits of using a real estate agent are mentioned below.

?       They have complete information about properties in their locality.

?       Real estate agents help you to make a well priced deal.

?       Protect you from any fraud, and harassment.

?       Give you an excellent advice regarding investment in real estate.