A real estate developer is a real estate professional who specializes in creating new developments or renovating existing ones, marketing them successfully, and selling them. These developers often work with partners to share the risk and the workload, and they may work for big companies which conduct real estate development on a large scale or…

Institutional investors are organizations which pool large sums of money and invest those sums in securities, real property and other investment assets. They can also include operating companies which decide to invest their profits to some degree in these types of assets. Typical investors include banks, insurance companies, retirement or pension funds, hedge funds, investment…

Direct investment in real estate markets by pension funds and property sovereign wealth funds is set to double over the next decade. High quality global journalism requires investment. Real estate that is classified as ‘good secondary’ provides an attractive long-term investment for pension funds, particularly if they are able to negotiate rent increases with tenants…

Family offices are private wealth management advisory firms that serve ultra-high net worth investors. Family offices are different from traditional wealth management shops in that they offer a total outsourced solution to managing the financial and investment side of a affluent individual or family. For example, many family offices offer budgeting, insurance, charitable giving, family-owned…

A company or individual that takes their own money and uses it to help another business or individual is known as a private investor. They invest in small or large start-up businesses, as well as businesses that have been operating, but have run into hard financial times. Some private investors also help individuals who cannot…