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Your 12-step 2022 property investment plan

MyPR: Your 12-step 2022 property investment plan:

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It’s a new year – 12 months lie ahead. With some discipline and focus you could be much closer to your investment goals this time next year – just follow our month-by-month plan.

January

It’s the start of a brand, new year, and the perfect time to make, and then, more importantly, keep, your investment resolutions. Keep them simple, specific and reachable, and then keep track of them throughout the year.

February

With February, comes thoughts of love and connecting to your partner. Investing also involves partners and they can make or break any deal you enter. Find like-minded partners who are considered experts in their field. Online investing platform Wealth Migrate CEO Scott Picken advises: “Look for real investment technology players who have actual real estate experience and start building and nurturing those relationships.”

March

It always pays to do your homework. The right information will set you on a path to success, but the wrong information can be ruin you. This is because poorly informed investors make poor decisions. You must find trustworthy sources of information, instead of blindly following what salespeople tell you about the latest, must-have development. Make sure you pick investment partners with strict due-diligence processes.

April

No one wants to be a fool, especially an April Fool, so use your head, not your heart when making decisions. SMART investors drill down to look at the numbers to get a good understanding of what the investment could generate. Be responsible and do not allow yourself to be swept away by your emotions. If you are faced with a deal that seems too good to be true, take the time you need to have a good hard look at the numbers and make sure you know everything about the deal before investing.

May

Take on the wealth gap – the yawning space between the world’s extremely wealthy 1% and the rest. One of the best ways to breach the wealth gap is through technology, which gives the 99% access to assets and opportunities otherwise reserved for the 1%.

Picken says: “Wealth Migrate helps to break down many of these barriers to entry by connecting investors and property partners without the added cost of middlemen, and allowing investors to invest directly in property in the UK, the US and Australia and then earn US dollars, Australian dollars and pounds.” Wealth Migrate also follows a strict due-diligence process before onboarding new investment partners, making this a safe and secure platform.

June

When you invest in property, it’s all about the rent. Big discounts can blind you to the real costs involved. A cheap building that you cannot fill with tenants will become an extremely expensive mistake.

July

Get to grips with crowdfunding, where people club together to fund a project or venture. Online investing portal Wealth Migrate received its CATI Financial Service Provider licence in 2021 so the investing platform could maintain its commitment to using technology to remove the middleman, cut costs and increase trust and transparency, according to Picken.

August

Finance can help you grow, but a bad deal can destroy everything. Tread with care before committing yourself to a finance deal that looks too good to be true. When you invest offshore, you are already on the back foot in terms of knowing the ins and outs of how institutions work, so take time to make an informed decision.

September

Investing is about growing your portfolio, and nothing helps you do that like compound interest – Albert Einstein’s “eighth wonder of the world”. Wealth Migrate allows you to reinvest your returns from your investments and get growth on top of growth.

October

Make sure you are benefiting from SA’s embattled rand. When you invest rands in an international property deal, you have a built-in buffer if your chosen First World property market loses value. If the rand weakens substantially, you score when you convert the First World currency you have earned back into rands.

November

Learn about cash flow and capital appreciation. Investors can make good returns even in lean times by being savvy and seeing the opportunities available in a struggling market, and then focusing on the upside potential and the projected income.

December

Even in the best of times change is the one constant, even more so during a pandemic. To become wealthier, take the advice of the 1% – make good, solid decisions based on thorough research and get trustworthy partners in your corner.

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Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?

Did you know this about Johannesburg? The Ansteys Building at the corner of Jeppe and Joubert Streets was designed by Emley and William and completed in 1937. It is recognised as a prime example of Art Deco Architecture, a style synonymous with modernisation, optimism and Americanisation before World War 2. The departmental store, N. Anstey’s and Company, occupied the first four floors of the building. The tea terrace was on the fourth floor and was a destination of choice for the ladies of the northern suburbs. The building is 20 storeys high and was, when it was completed, the highest building in the southern hemisphere. The remaining storeys were offices and apartments, some of them occupying an entire floor. The building terminates in a mast designed for docking air ships.

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The World’s Largest Man-Made Urban Forest

One of the most surprising facts about Johannesburg is its status as a “green” city. When the first settlers arrived, the Highveld was a barren, treeless grassland (savannah). To support the mining industry, millions of trees were imported and planted to provide timber for mine underground supports. Fast forward to the present day, and Johannesburg is widely considered the largest man-made urban forest in the world.

There are an estimated 10 million trees within the city limits. This includes 1.2 million trees on sidewalks and in parks, and over 4.8 million in private gardens. This forest is so dense that satellite images of the northern suburbs often resemble a tropical rainforest. The most iconic of these trees is the Jacaranda, which was imported from South America in the early 20th century. Every October and November, the city turns a vibrant shade of purple as thousands of Jacarandas bloom simultaneously. However, this “forest” also highlights the city’s historical inequality; during the Apartheid era, trees were predominantly planted in wealthy white suburbs, leaving townships like Soweto as dusty plains. In the last two decades, “Greening Soweto” initiatives have seen hundreds of thousands of trees planted to bridge this “green divide,” emphasizing the role of urban forestry in social justice and climate cooling.