New report predicts long income real estate market is now worth around GBP30bn and will continue to grow rapidly
propertyfundsworld | August 24, 2020
Commercial Ground Rents: investment opportunity in a time of adversity says commercial ground rents, which are financing structures whereby a real estate owner or acquirer sells the freehold land to an investor and simultaneously agrees a long-term (generally over 75 years) lease with them to continue using a real estate asset, is the fastest growing segment of the long income real estate market, and that over the past five years the sector has grown from virtually nothing to around GBP4 billion in size, with around GBP1.5 billion of new deals completed in 2019 alone.