Investing in Land

It may seem an odd time to launch a blog on investing and even more so to promote that investment in land.

What with the global economic dislocation and distress buffeting markets and governments there is a flight to nothing as much as stability.  But where is that?  With the financial news in print and on television creating a-near hypnotic, minute-by-minute focus on global stock markets, there is a chance that we might miss the road signs.  LandInvesting.biz hopes to draw you attention to one, very key one.

In a review of author and Professor Niall Ferguson’s 2008 book, “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World,” was this bit of insight made more urgent by the distress in the global securities markets.  “Land and the buildings on it—or in modern parlance ‘bricks and mortar’—have played a crucial part in the development of the financial (and economic) system, because ‘the land can’t run away,’ and is therefore easy to use as collateral.”

To our eye, this suggests that at a time when investors’ are making hard decisions about what to hold, what to buy and what to shed, it might be worth taking a longer look at the long-term benefit that can attach to investing in land.

Let us know what you think.