Real estate investing seminar

With booming real estate industry and the prevailing low interest rate, moneyed investors  are now seeking better opportunities and higher return through real estate investments. Also, at this situation of low cost of borrowings, many become more daring to use debt capital with the same investment target in mind: Real Estate.

As such, in this scenario, there is a strong and urgent need to guide incoming beginners and prospective real estate investors, dealers and developers away from the sad misfortunes of loss-making investments. Although real estate investing is one investment area that yields many opportunities and long financial security, this is realized only by knowledgeable investors. Because of the broad, diverse and changing intricacies and techniques of real estate, many newcomers may suffer business failure instead.

In this regard, Urban Institute will conduct a lecture on “Investing In Real Estate: Opportunities, Techniques and What are Needed to be Learned” on Jan. 21, 2008, 1:30 to 6 pm, at the Maximo Function Room, 2nd Floor, Max’s Restaurant, near exit of Glorietta 2, Ayala Center, Makati City.

The four-hour lecture will cover the following topics: review of the different investment motivations; advantages of investing 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 to’s in real estate investment such as buy and sell; build and sell; property leasing; rehabilitation of foreclosed and distressed properties; master leasing; converting apartments to townhouses or condominiums; developing vacant/raw lands; and an overview of the need-to-learn knowledge before investing.

Also to be conducted on the succeeding days at the same time and venue is a series of detailed topics, which can be attended separately, as follows: Jan. 23 – Property Development and HLURB Rules; Jan. 28 – Joint Ventures and Syndications for Real Estate Projects; Jan. 30 – Management of Rental properties: How to Maximize Income of Rental Properties; Feb. 4 – Making Big Money in Distressed Properties; and Feb. 6 – How to Start and Manage A Successful Real Estate Brokerage Company.

This Lecture Series is accredited by DTI for CEP compliance and will have as lecturer Engr. Enrico Cruz, who has more than 40 years in real estate, engineering, construction, management and education. Cruz is also a licensed real estate consultant and 1st and 8th placer in the real estate appraiser’s and broker’s board examination respectively, and was invested as a “Real Estate Fellow” by the Philippine Council of Real Estate Educators.

For other details or advance registration, Urban Institute may be reached at 681-0928, or CP# 0916-426-9174/ 0921-683-9431/ 0923-309-2142 or by email at [email protected] or [email protected].