Infrastructure Growth – What is it and how to find it!

I have spoken the past few weeks about tips to help when analysing a deal to determine if the area is good. One of the key points to look for was infrastructure growth. Areas where the City or council is spending money, enhancing the services, or upgrading roads etc can certainly help spark growth in the real estate sector in that area.

A number of websites can be used to research what growth is occurring in particular areas, including the city websites themselves, local news and current affairs sites, even entertainment websites for the regions. For serious investors, subscribing to a number of business journals like Forbes or Business Today (most are all online now, no need to get an actual magazine) these can link to articles in certain cities or regions that can give good indications on upcoming large business or projects going into a certain city.

As a lot of you may know, we do a lot of our work in Michigan, and attached below is an example of a recent article I flagged as important. It shows some of the growth corridors in Detroit, Michigan and which areas are under going good infrastructure growth. You will see from the link below that the regions undergoing the growth are also near a number of the ZIP codes, or neighbourhoods we invest in. Areas like 48224,48221, 48227 etc are all near a number of this growth centres. Downtown prices are starting to get too expensive to purchase but these outlying areas are perfect neighbourhoods to get into now and can help ride that wave of growth that new infrastructure can bring:

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/economic-development/greenways-shared-streets-detroit-revamp-7-business-corridors-starting-spring

If any of these areas appeal to you and you would like to look to add some properties in these neighbourhoods to your portfolios, book a call with us today!