Indirect property is a term used in property investment.
There are two fundamental means by which one can invest in property. The first and most obvious is through purchasing freehold or leasehold interests in property, this is broadly known as direct property investment.
The second and less well-known method to achieve property performance with one's money is through indirect investment. Indirect investment can be exemplified by the purchasing of shares in companies that specialise in property dealings, property index derivatives or the bonds of corporate property firms. This allows the interest owner to receive financial returns inline with those of the property market without requiring the large quantities of capital generally required to purchase direct property rights whilst also benefiting from high levels of liquidity in their property assets.
Famous quotes containing the words indirect and/or property:
“An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for a strict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“There is no such thing as “the Queen’s English.” The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)