Real Estate Industry

The real estate business is primarily concerned with the buying, selling and management of commercial and residential properties. The real estate business is a major area of business with billions of dollars of property bought and sold every year.

Purchasing a property is a time consuming and expensive activity, each property has individual and unique characteristics. The real estate industry has evolved into several different fields to facilitate the purchase and management of property. These fields include surveyors who value property. Estate agents and brokers who make deals between the buyers and sellers of property and charge a % of the property price as their commission. Property management on both a corporate and individual level. Relocation services assist in moving people and businesses to different parts of the country or even to different countries. Finally the development sector is concerned with developing land for new properties and renovating older properties.

The development of the internet has had an impact on the real estate business. Both buyers and sellers have more information available to them than ever before. This has lead to the reduction of demand for brokers as buyers and sellers can now deal directly with each other.

One of the problems with the real estate business is its cyclical nature in many countries. There is a period of rapid growth in prices of property and the number of transactions completed followed by a slump in prices and a reduction in the demand for property.