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Welcome to Rochester City the next investment hotspot

Global Investments Incorporated are pleased to announce the new launch of Rochester City New York. Ten years ago we started our company selling properties in Upstate New York and we then diversified into other States in the US. We lead the way in cities like Cleveland, Detroit, St.Louis and Baltimore and have now come back to Rochester as it has been ear marked to be the the next best investment city in the US. We have been working hard to get our clients the best priced properties available today, Rochester has seen large capital appreciation in the last 10 years due to huge investment taking place in the City, by partnering with the largest Agents in Rochester including Remax we have managed to secure the best performing properties available. So why is Rochester City on the radar for the next best investment hotspot ? At the moment the City of Rochester is looking for input on how to invest $202M in federal funds it received into the City, this does not include the millions that have already been invested. The $202 million is part of the $65 billion distributed to cities nationwide as part of the stimulus bill. The money will be used over a two-year span, the city already received $101 million in the middle of May. Rochester over the last few years has seen $115 Million in new capital investments from several great stable companies such as, General Motors, General Electric, Natcore Technology, and Alpina Foods just to name a few. The economy in Rochester is the 4th largest in the state, driven by a diverse mix of industries including science and technology, research and development, and advanced manufacturing. According MIT Economics Rochester is the top metro in the US for future growth and strategic investment in tech innovation. With a work force that produces more patents and the 2nd most renewable energy patents in the world. Rochester is in the top 5 in patents per capita (Forbes). Rochester, NY is recognized as one of the 25 most innovative cities in America based on patent registration and advanced degrees. Rochester is the third most populated city in New York State, after New York City and Buffalo. The colleges and universities attracts students from all over New York State including New York City, In U.S. News and World Report’s 2021 evaluation of nearly 18,000 public high schools, 10 schools in the Greater Rochester, N.Y. region are among the top 10 percent. News & World Report also stated that Rochester is the 13th Best Place to Live in the U.S. for Quality of Life. Short commutes and high-quality education were key factors. Rochester has a great quality of life and a low cost of living, making the area attractive to families and millennials . The population of Rochester is just over 205,000 with more than one million residents living in the Rochester metropolitan area. The City offers its residents a very quick commute time, you can be anywhere in the City within 20 minutes. You also have Rochester International Airport, you can be in NYC, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland within two hours or less, the commute time is 25% shorter than the rest of the nation. To summarise the key points of why you should be looking at Rochester Very stable housing market showing good capital appreciation. Strong cap rates with established management companies. High quality of life with low living costs. Huge investments in the city from the US Government and private sector. Large influx of millennials relocating. One of the best education systems in the US Easy commute time and accessible to many large US Cities Many stable anchor companies, industries, medical and universities Excellent medical facilities and Universities Healthy business economy Great schools, world-class attractions, year-round festivals and cultural events, and a low cost of living. The Greater Rochester, NY region is the real deal. If you would like more information on our great properties in Rochester please email invest@globalinvestmentsincorportaed.com

Downtown Milwaukee is booming

According to the Milwaukee Business Journal Milwaukee is in the middle of a construction boom. Major investments in districts, hotels, The Hop streetcar, office and residential buildings, and highways reflect the innovative vision adding to Milwaukee’s ever-changing cityscape There are so many new developments taking place in Milwaukee it would be impossible to cover all of them in one article but here is a snippet of some of the main ones that are changing the City landscape. New business and financial developments: The Wisconsin Center is preparing for expansion, bringing Milwaukee’s convention center to an anticipated 480,841 sq. ft. total convention center space. BMO Harris Bank’s construction of a $137 million 25-story office building near City Hall is nearing completion. Grand Avenue Mall is being transformed into The Avenue with office and retail space including the 3rd St. Market Hall and Hub640. Hotels: JR Hospitality Group is creating a new hotel complex under the Holiday Inn Express brands. The Milwaukee Athletic Club, former Wisconsin Avenue School, and Humphrey Scottish Rite properties are being renovated and turned into new hotels. The Hop: Milwaukee’s streetcar, The Hop, is extending to Wisconsin Avenue, creation of a plaza on the corner of Vel Phillips and Wisconsin Avenues, expansion into the adjacent Bronzeville and Walker’s Point neighborhoods, and routes to the lakefront and Fiserv Forum. Gateway Project: A multi-million dollar project upgrading roads and park areas to improve connections between the lakefront and downtown Milwaukee. Amphitheater: Summerfest completed construction of the new 22,000-seat American Family Insurance Amphitheater opening during the 2020 festival season. Revitalized Districts: Built on the 30 acres surrounding the new Fiserv Forum arena, the Deer District is Milwaukee’s downtown sports and entertainment hub. In the new Brewery District, businesses such as Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery, The Captain Pabst Pilot House, The Brewhouse Inn & Suites, and NO STUDIOS have repurposed the historic Pabst Brewing buildings. All of this development has coincided with a huge increase in property sales, a record 10,450 homes sold in the Milwaukee area during the first half of the year, housing sales were up 15.3% for the first six months as compared to last year. GMAR President Mike Ruzicka stated that the systemic problem with the market is the lack of new construction of single-family houses and condominiums. The number of homes listed for sale in the region is up. But the inventory of available listings is at about 3 months. A balanced market has about six months of inventory. If the City does not create additional supply in the form of more single-family homes thousands of would-be homeowners will be forced into rental units. Throughout the last two decades, the city has begun to make strides in revitalizing its neighborhoods around Downtown that used to house Milwaukee’s economic engines. Areas like the Third Ward and Menomonee Valley have converted former warehouses and factory buildings into office and residential mixed-use buildings, while incorporating new entertainment venues like the 381-room Potawatomi Hotel & Casino. The surge in activity has created a domino effect on Downtown and has made it an ever popular place to live, work and play. It’s an exciting time in the city and this new growth promises even better things to come over the next five years, It doesn’t matter how you measure it Downtown Milwaukee is booming. If you would like more information on our Milwaukee properties please email invest@globalinvestmentsincorporated.com

Real Estate vs Stocks

It’s important to understand that real estate vs stocks is not comparing apples to apples. Real estate is a tangible asset that you can visit and touch. No matter what happens with the property market, your real estate will never go away. A stock is a share of ownership in a publicly traded company. Most companies have millions of shares, so most investors own an insignificant share of the company. If the market tanks and the company fails, the stocks will no longer have any value which is one of the biggest risks in stock market investing. The stock market does offer some advantages, though. Stocks are a more liquid investment because they are easily sold. Unless you’re trying to unload an enormous amount of stocks at once, you can typically liquidate your stocks within a day or two and have the cash back in a current account. Investors can also get into the stock market with little money compared to real estate. Some apps even allow people to start investing in stocks with as little as $5. With the lower cost of entry, stock portfolios are easy to diversify across many different companies and index funds. To decide which type of investment is best for you, we’ll look at how each one provides you with a return, then look closer at the benefits of each type of investment. Sources of a return on investment are: Cash flow Capital gains Equity CASH FLOW One of the most attractive things about real estate investing is the cash flow. Whether investing in residential rental properties, multifamily properties or commercial real estate, the idea is to earn a profit each month from the rental income. The cash flow from real estate provides consistency in income, regardless of whether the real estate market is up or down. The cash flow from real estate is used to calculate the capitalization rate, cash-on-cash return, and the internal rate of return. Some stock investments pay dividends to investors. These dividends are usually paid quarterly and are a pro rata share of the company’s profits. ( Not all stocks provide a dividend ) The dividends are normally a fixed percentage of the current stock price, not the amount you’ve invested into it. If the market is down, your dividends will be low. If the market is up, your dividends will be higher. Mutual Funds are often heavily invested in dividend-paying stocks. Some mutual funds allow investors to have their dividend payments reinvested into the fund to increase their returns even further. CAPITAL GAINS Capital gain is the profit earned from selling an asset for more than you paid. Most of the profit earned from stocks is from capital gains. You purchase a stock that you believe will increase in value over time. That’s where the term “buy low, sell high” comes from. Capital gains can also be a significant source of income for real estate investors. If you buy a property when the market is down and sell it when it’s up, you can get a significant return. More commonly, though, people earn capital gains in real estate by increasing the value of their property. By improving the property and increasing rents, you can force the appreciation of the real estate and earn capital gains. A clear benefit that investors see in real estate over stocks is having control over how well it performs. With stocks, you’re relying on the market to improve so your stock value goes up. With real estate, you can increase a property’s value no matter how the market is performing. EQUITY Building equity is a benefit that’s more specific to real estate. When you collect rent each month from tenants the rent collected is paying off the original investment amount and building equity in the property which normally would be also appreciating over time. Over time you can build a significant amount of equity that the tenants paid for. Equity build is an often-overlooked benefit. Investors don’t usually consider the amount of profit they will earn when they cash out on the equity built while they owned the property but this is a huge aspect of owning property over stocks. EFFORT IN REAL ESTATE VS STOCKS Depending on your investment strategy, the amount of effort that goes into investing in real estate vs stocks can vary greatly. Somebody managing their own rental property will have to put a lot more time and effort into their investment than somebody who simply invests in an index fund that follows the S&P 500. This is why at Global Investments we work with excellent local management companies that take away then stress and time it can take in managing your own properties. THE RIGHT INVESTMENT FOR YOU Real estate investing has a ton of benefits, but the time, energy, and money that goes into getting started can be overwhelming. Finding the right property, negotiating terms, getting insurance then managing the property is a lot of work. This is one of the main reasons people may choose a company like ourselves to take the hard work away from investing in Real Estate. At Global Investments we hold your hand from finding the right property, getting a survey and inspection, negotiating with the seller, the hand over to your management company and also keeping in touch even after the property has closed. We have turn Key opportunities in Cleveland Ohio, Detroit, St Louis and Michigan & and also have a great portfolio of stick here in the UK. Both residential and Student Lets. Prices from $45,000 with Net Cash on Cash Returns of up top 20% Net. For more information on our latest inventory in the US or the UK please email invest@globalinvestmentsincorporated.com

Global Investments talk about the UK Property Market

This month we are looking at what’s happening in the UK Property market. Savills are predicting in a recent report more growth to come in 2021 and a soft landing in 2022 with UK mainstream house price growth forecast +9% in 2021. The average UK house price has continued to rise strongly in 2021, increasing by +5.6% in the first six months of the year according to the Nationwide index. The signs are the market looks set to maintain growth for the second half of the year meaning Savills expect annual house price growth across the UK as a whole to end 2021 at 9%, and with transactions to exceed 1.6m for the first time since the credit crunch Savills also expect transaction levels to diminish gradually over the remainder of this year as government support for both the housing market and the wider economy is withdrawn. However, the pace at which sales continue to be agreed suggests that national transaction levels will still end the year at circa 1.62m. That is roughly 35% higher than the average for the five years prior to the pandemic, despite an acknowledged shortfall of available supply to meet demand. A soft landing seems likely. The pace of economic recovery means unemployment levels have been contained and are forecast to progressively return to pre-pandemic levels and Interest rate rises are still expected to be gradual and modest, meaning a progressive squeeze on affordability. Together, Savills believe, this means there does not appear to be a trigger for a major house price correction. Ultimately, the pattern of growth over the period 2022–2025 depends on the extent to which the market normalises and what this means for price growth next year. While at this point, we are forecasting price growth of 3.5% next year, we could still see some of the growth generated by the extraordinary market conditions of 2020 and 2021 unwind at times during 2022. Regionally we continue to expect the markets of the Midlands and the North of England to show the strongest price growth as has occurred historically at this point in the housing market cycle, due to greater capacity for growth before hitting affordability ceilings. However, in the short term, we do expect some of the buyer focus to shift back towards urban markets, including London, as social distancing restrictions and international travel restrictions ease. This will see the ratios of regional to UK average values slowly converge over the next five years, as the lower value regions see stronger growth, ‘catching up’ with the rest of the country. This is what we’d consider typical late cycle behaviour. At the end of the day house prices and yields, have traditionally increase over time in England, with a stable economy and government. The World looks to invest here, and this will likely continue. Global Investments offer several ‘off plan’ and ready property investments in the Midlands and the North of England including apartments in Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, some with guaranteed returns. Also on offer are Freehold Houses in the Northeast, refurbished and offered to market with tenants in situ. If you are interested in investing in UK Property and would like to know more, please contact us. Source: Savills Research using Land Registry and Nationwide