Commercial Real Estate Investing A Creative Guide to Succesfully Making Money [Paperback]

Dolf de Roos’s Commercial Real Estate Investing reveals all the differences between residential and commercial investing and shows you how to make a bundle. De Roos explores the different sectors—retail, office space, industrial, hospitality, or specialist—to help you discover which is right for you. He shares key insights on finding tenants and avoiding vacancies, financing large investments, managing property, setting a tax-smart corporate structure, and take full advantage of tax breaks.

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Notes on Reading This Book xv

Introduction xvii

CHAPTER 1 Just What Is Commercial Real Estate? 1

CHAPTER 2 People versus Contracts 5

CHAPTER 3 Why Invest in Commercial Real Estate? 11

Lease Duration 11

Assignment of Lease 15

The Tenants Pay the Outgoings 17

Tenants Earn Their Income on Your Premises 18

Landlord Pays for Improvements to Commercial Premises 21

Certainty of Collecting Rent 22

Upward-Only Rent Reviews 24

Government Interference 25

Management Overhead 27

CHAPTER 4 The Downside of Commercial Real Estate 29

Much More Difficult to Acquire Commercial Tenants 29

Banks Will Lend a Smaller Proportion of a

Commercial Property 30

CHAPTER 5 The True Value of Real Estate 33

CHAPTER 6 How to Overcome the Disadvantages of Commercial Real Estate 41

CHAPTER 7 How to Attract a Tenant 45