2015 marked a clear recovery in the Global real estate market,
thanks to the activity of asset management products focused on real
estate. MondoAlternative spoke with Andre Zerafa,
Partner at GANADO Advocates, about the new regulations that are
changing the international real estate funds sector and the
peculiarities of the Maltese jurisdiction.
According to Scenari Immobiliari, in 2015 investment funds were
the main players of the real estate Global market. Have you noticed
a growth and a greater dynamism of these instruments?
Over the last three years we have seen an increase of real
estate funds investing in the mainstream jurisdictions typically in
office blocks or tourism projects. We are also seeing the real
estate funds getting more into high end or mid end residential
projects. The strategies would normally be a mix of buy to let
– this ensuring certain annual payouts to investors and
ensuring that the fund's costs are covered – and buy to
sell. In the
