Comments on: Land Banking Risks

By: revival

revival — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:26:06 +0000

Anyone out there has invested in Aquarena Heights in Austin-San Marcos, Texas, USA thro Malton Est Development Ltd. ?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:21:16 +0000

Anyone out there has invested in Aquarena Heights in Austin-San Marcos, Texas, USA thro Malton Est Development Ltd. ?

By: godknows

godknows — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:24:08 +0000

Gentlemen and ladies(if there are any)
may i ask what are the risks involved in this? Ok,lets say for example the company says that you will get back the returns within 3-5 years..but what i found out is, for a Prime Land to mature into development status, it would actually take 5-10 years…but the return is good.approximately 250-300%.can anyone tell me how true is this?

By: squatter

squatter — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:02:01 +0000

BTW ….Walton has proven Track Record where EXITS are concerned, Haven’t heard about the others, perhaps waiting till the “cows come home” as most land are termed Raw land or Agricultural Land. Cheers for Walton!

By: squatter

squatter — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:48:10 +0000

In LandBanking “Time” is the only risk besides being illiquid.
Always have spare cash to risk that gamble. It is like a Lottery Draw on when your project will be EXITED or none at all.
The fear factor is: when it gets too big then where are the developers? …..a bit tricky though!

By: jimmy

jimmy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:08:07 +0000

And now we have ex brokers doing land banking trying to promote themselves on this wine forum. these people are move fast. Didnt you read the title of this forum Mineral Rights? Or are you an uneducated greedy pusher- the typical profile of a wine broker. You guys don’t KNOW how to do anything else, no one will employ you so the only thing you can do is CHEAT, ROB and STEAL from others.

By: Mineral Rights

Mineral Rights — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:26:46 +0000

I wonder if land banking investment is a good choice with these current events. I know a few people who have done very well in some countries like in the UK where land prices are rising due to the housing crisis. In fact it is constantly on the news plus the government keeps banging on about building million of homes 4 years from now.

By: Marcelly

Marcelly — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:50:33 +0000

I don’t know about you guys, cause investments criteria varies from person to person.

Potentials definitely play a part (e.g oil, Texas, etc)..
but before I would study any future potentials I would check the Track record and fundamentals of the company first.

So its 1. Track Record & History (at least 15-20 yrs old company., track record .etc)
2. Fundamentals (concept) (what they do to profit for us etc)
3. Future potentials. (whats outlook, why this location etc)

And Walton passed my standard for these 3 points. Heard of Malton from a colleague, but not familiar, so, not sure about their credentials. Sory

By: Marcelly

Marcelly — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:45:12 +0000

HI Guys, my friends and colleagues went to the 2- day T-Harv Eker Seminar today in Expo.

Turns our T-Harv Eker himself has been a client of Walton!!!
He confesed to everyone that he is pretty happy with this diversification and he allowed our VP of BD to step up and give a short introduction on Pre-development Land Investing with Walton Int’l.

I was pleasantly surprised

Just FYI

By: John Tan

John Tan — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:42:59 +0000

Heard another US land banking company operating in Singapore and Malaysia called Malton Estates Development offering land in San Marcos/Austin area. The land includes 3 commercial lots which their consultant said are more valuable since it sits on a major road frontage on Highway 21. The offer is packaged into undivided lots with entry level ranging from USD4000 up and said to be cheaper than their competitor, Walton International.

What is most interesting is that the land comes with freehold oil and gas mineral rights and there are numerous production oilfields in the area. Walton does not include mineral rights which in their contract specifically indicate that they will keep it for itself. We all know that Texas is rich in oil and gas and owning this mineral right makes sense. A friend of mine who lives in Texas and is a oil man said that it is stupid for any land buyer in Texas not to have the mineral rights when they buy the land. He did a quick check on land in counties offered by Walton and Malton revealed that there are many production oil and gas fields and many geology fault-lines (oil and gas generally gets trapped in these deep earth layers down some 2,000 to 30,000 ft). Interesting!