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New corporate design for Zentrica.net

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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Forbes Lists, the richest people in the globle. Buffet up Gates go down to third place

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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Real Estate Investment Clubs: Brazil 1.0 Version for Real Estate Investment Market

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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ADVANTAGES of Real Estate Investment

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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Audio and Video will add value to Real Estate Information for investors

All the information that you can offer to an investor is good if you want the investor have confidence in your sell offer. The Audio and Video will be important values to add to the Real Estate Offer, not only by Multimedia formats, too when you use the non-verbal communication is important to offer a good sales proposal.

Internet can be the attraction focus for investors that are looking for the best investment proposals, if you work with all the possibilities that the net offer to commerce your customers and investors will be happy with your information and working focus.

But ehrn the Audio and Video are totally necesary is when you are trying to sell a big Real Estate complex anywhere to large investors like funds, trust or Pere. You need to show how is the investment enviroment, how is the products or construction you are goint to work with and how will be returned the profit to investors, in this case the video can be used like one image add more than 1000 words.

Commercial presentations are ever more valuated in order to show the possibilities that one investment can offer to investors, or to all the status investors, from the large investor that want to begin with the land development to the little investor that want to buy the final product to speculate or to resell in a few time.

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Morroco, could be a great point for investors, depends on the place

Morroco could be an interesting point to invest, but not anywhere. Big spanish companies have big problem there. One of the big problems that have the spanish promoters companies is that they are trying to sell final product at european price, without take care of the investors interest, thinking that investors are stupid and they will buy like they have done is Spain.

The difference is that the spanish speculators are mainly local investors and is difficult that the local investor move to different locations and countries that they don´t know to invest with “credibility” companies, the big promoters in Spain is difficult that have credibility for investors, more when they try to sell thinking that the spanish investor is going to re-sell to someone else.

The price that they try to sell to investors is similar to price that the spanish Real Estate Investor is accustomed to pay in Spain, with financial options. This financial options is difficult to have in the same way in other countries, and the promoters are trying to have alliances with banks to offer the product and the financial option, but when you have a price more expensive than 60.000 euros the banks not offer options, because this are usually personal credits with a bigger interest than mortgage credits (not offered today by banks).

Another problem that Spanish promoters are having in Morroco is that they think that having money they have all done, when the Real Estate Market has million of years and there are important cultures like Arabian, Chinese, or others that are doing business in this market for years. A lot of promoters are having actitude problems with local goverments, and this is a very bad point of beginning to do business in a different country ;)

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Germany is a great city to Real Estate Investors

Today Germany one important country that have gone out from the crisis and now is working like one of the world engines is a great point to Real Estate Investors.

A few days later, we received in Zentrica one important operation to manage, this operation was a complete Real Estate Community where all the Real Estate assets was for rent, with a high annual yield (i think was about a 7% of annual yield), in comparison with Spain may be a very good operation because in Spain for homes more than a 5% of annual yield is not very usually to find.

Germany is a good place to rent Real Estate assets because there is not a ownership feeling for Real Estate like in Spain, in Spain everybody want to have their own house. In Germany people have a different culture that do better and normal to rent a house and not to buy it.

Too, is the second country in Europe in number of population (near 82 Million people) and the 3rd economy in the world, having important industries like iron, steel, machinery and electronics. Berlin is the country’s capital, one of the more cosmopolitan cities in the world.

A country with a dynamic economy like Germany do that people go and came and this means that the Real Estate Assets may be return on investment without setbacks.

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Spain need to be on the edge in Real Estate Invesment focus

From the Spanish Goverment to the Real Estate Investors, all the players in Spain, need to be on the edge in Real Estate Focus, really the Real Estate Promoters companies are really fine in comparison with companies from other countries but not in Real Estate Investment.

The Spanish Real Estate Investment market need to up one step further and have professional players, more than now having the experience of anglo-saxon companies.

We can saw in last SIMA the need of companies to work with investors, not with final buyers, but to work with investors a company need to know how to work in this league, and what and how to offer products to investors, looking for an exit strategy or at least a good yield annually.

This point have not been worked by the Spanish companies so when they are trying to sell all the final product stocks they cannot do it, because the secret is not a good cheap only, the secret is a good yield and a good exit strategy for the money, and when you dont have an exit strategy you can work with a cheap price.

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Testing the Zentrica Real Estate Investment Club Blog

We are working in the last details to lauch the ZREIC Blog english version.

Our ideas is to offer direct information about the Real Estate Investment possibilities in the Spanish and Americas markets.

More than 100 people have asked us when we can offer support in English for invesment companies in the world. We think that the next year is going to be a great year to try new strategies in the Real Estate market and with the Real Estate estrategies.

Thank you for your interest in Zentrica Real Estate Investment Club and …… we are on the air.