Lecture on how to invest in real estate

For a knowledgeable investor, real estate investing is one investment area that yields many opportunities and long financial security. However, because of the broad, diverse and changing intricacies and techniques of real estate, many newcomers suffer business failure.

To provide helpful guidelines to the benefits of beginning and prospective real estate investors, dealers, developers and realty professionals, a seminar on "Investing In Real Estate: Opportunities, techniques & what are needed to learn before investing", will be conducted by the Urban Institute of Real Estate on Feb. 16, 1:30-6 p.m. at the Asian Institute of Management Conference Center (AIM-ACCEED), Benavidez cor. Trasierra Sts., Legaspi Village, Makati City.

The four-hour lecture will cover review of the different investment motivations; why invest in real estate?; pitfalls and traps in real estate investments; why real estate appreciates; pros and cons of investing in vacant land; different areas of opportunities, techniques and how-tos in real estate investment such as buy and sell or lease; build and sell; rehabilitation of foreclosed and damaged properties; master leasing; converting apartments to townhouses or condominiums; developing vacant/raw lands; and an overview of the need-to-learn knowledge before investing.

The succeeding days on the same time and venue is a series of other topics which can be attended separately, as follows: Feb. 17 – Property Development and HLURB Rules And Regulations; Feb. 18 – Real Estate Finance and Investment Analysis; Feb. 19 – Joint Ventures and Syndications for Real Estate Projects; Feb. 21 – Legal Aspect of Sale, Mortgage and Lease with Contract Documentation and; Feb. 22 – A Complete Course on Installment Sales; Feb. 23 – How to Start and Manage A Successful Real Estate Brokerage Company; Feb. 24 – Property Management and Real Estate Appraisal; Feb. 25 – Taxation Aspects of Real Estate Transactions & Property Assessment; and Feb. 26 – Mathematics of Real Estate Investment.

Lecturer will be Engr. Enrico S. Cruz, a licensed real estate consultant, broker and appraiser and real estate fellow, who has more than three decades of working experience in engineering, construction, education and real estate development.

For particulars, interested parties may call Urban Institute at 681-0928/0916-4269174 or email at [email protected]