If you bought an apartment in a building under construction for 8 million and sold it for 11 million after its completion, you can consider that you have successfully invested in construction. Of course, this is a primitive example.
In the general sense, investing in construction is the investment of free or borrowed funds in the processes of construction of residential and non-residential premises with the aim of making a profit from the sale of the construction object or leasing it. The construction object can be one house or an entire residential block, a garage complex or a parking space, an apartment or an office, a hotel or a shopping center, a warehouse, etc.
One of the richest people in the world, 94-year-old businessman from China Li Shauqi has been investing in construction since 1950. He was born into a poor family, but this did not stop him from founding a group of companies and amassing a fortune of more than $ 26 billion. His strategy initially involved buying up old illiquid buildings for little money and then reselling them. Over time, Lee Shawqi and his team began to transform buildings, completely renovate them, or build new modern complexes on the site of old ones. This is how the famous Miramar hotel chain, owned by the Henderson Land empire, was born.