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Investing in Property

When you’re looking to build your investment portfolio, best practice says that you should look to spread your investments across sectors and continents. This not only helps to spread the risk should investments fall, it also increases the chances of benefiting from growth markets.

Best practice advice also says that apart from funds set aside to meet immediate needs, investments should be looked on either as a long-term proposition or made with a view to funding a specific project such as financing a stay in a care home. Either way this means taking the longer view rather than reacting to individual reports on market conditions.

For example one of the world’s largest property companies CBRE has recently released a report indicating that levels of investment in UK commercial property market peaked in the current year but also predicting that prices would remain at their current level at least until 2020. The report also suggested that with the property cycle in London moving ahead of other European cities, we would continue to see commercial property growth outside London.

Does the report have implications for UK investors? Should people look to move in or out of UK property, or in or out of European property investments? As with other investment questions the answer will depend on the individual portfolio and on the current and future anticipated needs of the investor.

If you’re looking to create an investment portfolio to meet your current and future requirements, or if your situation has changed and you may therefore need to review your existing portfolio, contact Beckworth by using one of the links on our website.