Zentrica Real Estate Investment Club Blog http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog Zentrica Real Estate Investment Club Blog Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:23:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Real Estate Investment Network - First Version http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/real-estate-investment-network-first-version/ http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/real-estate-investment-network-first-version/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:23:47 +0000 admin http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/?p=26 Well, at the end we are launching our network (really is on Beta version), because we want to test first with friends.

Zentrica, our company has today clients over 12 countries and we think that is a very good idea to launch our social network to know Real Estate Business People and to entry faster than today to opperations that can be defined.

The Zentrica Real Estate investment Network is this. We wait you like.

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]]> http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/real-estate-investment-network-first-version/feed/ New corporate design for Zentrica.net http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/new-corporate-design-for-zentrica.net/ http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/new-corporate-design-for-zentrica.net/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:56:26 +0000 admin http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/?p=25 The spanish version of Zentrica, Zentrica.net, have changed with a new design, the goal is to be more effective and transparent with the business focus, in order to define a better service for new clients, mainly patrimonial clientes.

In a few days, Zentrica.net is going to lauch a new project focused on an important application to have the Real Estate Investment Market working together, and increasing the services for all types of clientes, colaborators and providers.

We wait that the new image like you.

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]]> http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/new-corporate-design-for-zentrica.net/feed/ Forbes Lists, the richest people in the globle. Buffet up Gates go down to third place http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/forbes-lists-the-richest-people-in-the-globle.-buffet-up-gates-go-down-to-third-place/ http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/forbes-lists-the-richest-people-in-the-globle.-buffet-up-gates-go-down-to-third-place/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:51:58 +0000 admin http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/?p=23 Rank Name Place Age Valor ($bil) Residence: 1 Warren Buffett United States 77 62.0 United States 2 Carlos Slim Helu & family Mexico 68 60.0 Mexico 3 William Gates III United States 52 58.0 United States 4 Lakshmi Mittal India 57 45.0 United Kingdom 5 Mukesh Ambani India 50 43.0 India 6 Anil Ambani India 48 42.0 India 7 Ingvar Kamprad & family Sweden 81 31.0 Switzerland 8 KP Singh India 76 30.0 India 9 Oleg Deripaska Russia 40 28.0 Russia 10 Karl Albrecht Germany 88 27.0 Germany 11 Li Ka-shing Hong Kong 79 26.5 Hong Kong 12 Sheldon Adelson United States 74 26.0 United States 13 Bernard Arnault France 59 25.5 France 14 Lawrence Ellison United States 63 25.0 United States 15 Roman Abramovich Russia 41 23.5 Russia 16 Theo Albrecht Germany 85 23.0 Germany 17 Liliane Bettencourt France 85 22.9 France 18 Alexei Mordashov Russia 42 21.2 Russia 19 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud Saudi Arabia 51 21.0 Saudi Arabia 20 Mikhail Fridman Russia 43 20.8 Russia 21 Vladimir Lisin Russia 51 20.3 Russia 22 Amancio Ortega Spain 72 20.2 Spain 23 Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok Hong Kong NA 19.9 Hong Kong 24 Mikhail Prokhorov Russia 42 19.5 Russia 25 Vladimir Potanin Russia 47 19.3 Russia

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]]> http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/forbes-lists-the-richest-people-in-the-globle.-buffet-up-gates-go-down-to-third-place/feed/ European investors are been looking like the riches people from Latinamerica http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/european-investors-are-looking-like-the-riches-people-from-latinamerica/ http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/european-investors-are-looking-like-the-riches-people-from-latinamerica/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:28:31 +0000 admin http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/?p=22 Many countries of latinamerica are looking at the european investors only like people with money, they usually don’t understand that the investos want to reproduce the money not to give them.

Some companies in Brazil are working with a great focus to European Investors but this companies are a little part in an ocean of new entrepreneurs in Real Estate. This companies are working very good with the european investor because they know that the prices must to be good, there is an important possibility to analize annual yield (between a 5% and a 7%) and a possible success exit with at least a 15% percent in 2 years.

These companies are the companies that in 10 years are going to be really big industrial groups with and expansive movement to the rest of the latinamerican countries.

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]]> http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/european-investors-are-looking-like-the-riches-people-from-latinamerica/feed/ Real Estate Investment Clubs: Brazil 1.0 Version for Real Estate Investment Market http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/real-estate-investment-clubs-brazil-1.0-version-for-real-estate-investment-market/ http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/real-estate-investment-clubs-brazil-1.0-version-for-real-estate-investment-market/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 20:54:03 +0000 admin http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/?p=20 After analyze a lot of projects and after talk with more than 50 companies and a lot of Real Estate professionals Spanish and Brazilian, we can see that in this moment Brazil is in a good point to launch new projects but it’s on the 1.0 version in the Real Estate Investment focus.

The country is living their own Real Estate bubble done by a big number of young companies that want to do business developing large Real Estate Projects. You can see people launching projects with 4.000 units but without any experience before. Nevertheless, we can see a great focus of entrepreneurs and a high growth of professional projects.

Several companies that we have analizing are companies with interesting projects very focus and with an important potential, more when the Goverment of the zone is being very open minded and is trying to support all the investment and development possibilities.

It’s a very good moment for work in land business, buying cheap, adding value and management and selling with a very focus project or a high yield project.

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]]> http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/real-estate-investment-clubs-brazil-1.0-version-for-real-estate-investment-market/feed/ Zentrica participate in Nordeste Invest 2008, Fortaleza, Brasil http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/zentrica-participate-in-nordeste-invest-2008-fortaleza-brasil/ http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/zentrica-participate-in-nordeste-invest-2008-fortaleza-brasil/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 08:49:23 +0000 admin http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/?p=19 This week Zentrica participate in Nordeste Invest 2008, one of the more important events about Real Estate Investment in Brazil. It will be in Fortaleza, Brasil.

In this event we are going to be with important personalities of the Real Estate Investment market in Spain, like Mall Group or with Eloy Bohua, Principal at SIMA (The more important Real Estate Investment Exhibition of Spain).

The Zentrica role in this event will be double, in one way we are going looking for possible business for our investors and Real Estate Funds that want to invest in Brazil, in another way we will be speakers and our thematic will be “How is working a Real Estate Investment Club and how to do especific product for them”.

Zentrica like a Real Estate Investment Club have two makets B2II and B2i, the first market B2II is directed to Business To Institucional Investors and the second is Business to little investors.

Fortaleza is located in Pernambuco estate and is one of the more important zone for the Real Estate Investors with an important increasing market there. In many year it could be one of the investors meeting point more importants of the globe.

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]]> http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/zentrica-participate-in-nordeste-invest-2008-fortaleza-brasil/feed/ Brazil Real Estate Investment Trip http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/brazil-real-estate-investment-trip/ http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/brazil-real-estate-investment-trip/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 10:29:01 +0000 admin http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/?p=18 The next week we are gointo to be in Brazil, looking for investment opportunities and possibilities with Real Estate Developers there, mainly in Brazil Northeast.

The reason in that some of the Real Estate Investment Funds and Spanish Real Estate Investors want to know investment possibilities with high yields and returns (ROI, TIR).

If you are intesred to invest in Brazil and want to know what we are doing, contact us directly, we are in touch.

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]]> http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/brazil-real-estate-investment-trip/feed/ ADVANTAGES of Real Estate Investment http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/advantages-of-real-estate-investment/ http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/advantages-of-real-estate-investment/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 21:44:29 +0000 admin http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/?p=17 In addition to the investment performance and portfolio diversification benefits available from investing in REITs, REITs offer several advantages not found in companies across other industries. These benefits are part of the reason why REITs have become increasingly popular with investors over the past decade:

Predictable Revenue Stream

REITs’ reliable income is derived from, rents paid to the owners of commercial properties, whose tenants often sign leases for long periods of time, or interest payments from the financing of those properties. In addition, the companies’ ownership of tangible assets with established values tends to reduce risk.

Earnings Transparency

Most REITs operate along a straightforward and easily understandable business model: By increasing property occupancy rates and rents, higher levels of income may be produced. When reporting financial results, REITs, like other public companies, must report earnings per share based on net income as defined by generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Another way year-to-year financial progress can be gauged is by comparing levels of Funds From Operations (FFO). FFO, the industry’s supplemental performance measure, differs mainly from net income by excluding depreciation and amortization of real estate assets and gains and losses from most property sales.

Given the broad range of real estate property sectors and business lines, there also are a number of additional earnings metrics, which are used by REITs in order to provide   investors with a greater level of insight into their performance.

REIT Investing In Spain 2008

Many factors affect the value of a REIT’s share price beginning with the earnings tied to oftentimes predictable and growing streams of rental revenue and a price-earnings multiple assigned by the marketplace. Today Spain offers to REIT,  prices for rental assets way below 2007. It is market consensus that the market adjustment will give today investor an interesting returns. There is an increasing demand on rentals. REITS are the ideal vehicles to invest in residential to rent. As simple as it may seen, when undervalued assets are bought, REIT´s valuation by NAV improve and many REIT analysts look at net asset value (NAV) as a reference point for the valuation of a company. NAV equals the estimated market value of a REIT’s total assets minus the value of all liabilities.

When divided by the number of common shares outstanding, the net asset value per share is viewed by some as a useful guideline for determining the appropriate level of share price. Thus, the value of a REIT’s shares may be based on the value of its tangible real estate holdings.

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]]> http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/advantages-of-real-estate-investment/feed/ Real Estate Funds will be one of the main players in the markets http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/real-estate-funds-will-be-one-of-the-main-players-in-the-markets/ http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/real-estate-funds-will-be-one-of-the-main-players-in-the-markets/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 06:23:41 +0000 admin http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/?p=16 After the market in Spain say “no” to continue working with the banks like lenders, working on the way of the “promoter lend”, where they was financing a 100% of the RE promotion and subrrogating the lend like a mortgage to the final buyer.

Is possible that after the crisis this way don`t continue living because anyone could promote, and for large projects the Real Estate Funds could be a very good alternative always that work like a perfect complement to the bank lend, in Spain banks can lend between a 50% and a 80% of the project and the rest of financing must be done with the company funds or Real Estate Funds that support the project.

This funds like to invest in projects that are going to be development in several years, so for them is a good way to manage their cashflow in order to the funds they receive annually.

Real Estate Funds have a variable that define their work philosophy that is call “voracity” of the fund, if they are very dinamic they have a high voracity, this means a great interest to invest the money they receive from their investors quickly and focusing in a project line.

Is possible that the specialization from now in advance do that Real Estate Funds or Real Estate Hedge Funds begin to arise like a new investment movement and hundred of these Hedge could be defining working for short term periods or to invest in a few of projects, having a fund live not more of 5 years.

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]]> http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/real-estate-funds-will-be-one-of-the-main-players-in-the-markets/feed/ Real Estate companies will have to reduce costs using IT and Internet, and reducing risks http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/real-estate-companies-will-have-to-reduce-costs-using-it-and-internet-and-reducing-risks/ http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/real-estate-companies-will-have-to-reduce-costs-using-it-and-internet-and-reducing-risks/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 06:27:45 +0000 admin http://www.zentricaclub.com/blog/?p=15 Real Estate companies with a lot of prople working will have to reduce cost using IT and Internet with more flexibility that the rest of companies.

In Spain there are companies with big estructural costs that do that the company have a ballast. Little companies working with less costs are faster working and are thinking only in operations, not in how to reduce costs laying off staff.

Internet offer to companies the possibility of expand quicker, working in a distribuited map and contribute with a better service to property holders and investors, working with their sell or invest interests in order to the goal of the company, this means, focus on the operations and having a very good rotate operational.

One of the things that Zentrica have been improving is the possibility to offer to our investors information like if they where working with a big bank or an investment bank, information about how the investment vehicles we do are having their movements, expectations and profits for investors and shareholders of the vehicle company.

Our main focus markets are Europe and Latinamerican markets and in these markets you have to be very informed about the general situation, mainly in Latinamerican, like with the Politic situation to move quickly interest or to desinvest having profits is its necessary. Countries like Venezuela for many people y very secure and for a lot of people is a very dangerous market, we know several Real Estate investors selling all the properties they have there a.s.a.p and re-investing in Spain, mainly Madrid and Barcelona and doing this in products like little buildings in the center of these cities.

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