SARAH REAL ESTATE GROUP is a specialized real estate that provides international investors -regardless of type or origin- comprehensive advice to facilitate and realize efficient, suitable, safe, and profitable top-notch real estate investments in the Miami markets.
SARAH REAL ESTATE GROUP addresses and manages all key financial, legal, and tax issues throughout the investment process, including, if and when required, procurement of guaranteed mortgage financing in the US for all international investors.
SARAH REAL ESTATE GROUP is the real estate boutique to which investors from around the world turn to when looking to invest -whether large, medium or small scale- in prime real estate in Miami markets. Our company gives international investors the reassurance of working together with a qualified team of professionals that provides them with relevant and timely step-by-step advice, addressing and seamlessly solving all issues involved in realizing a real estate investment in the US.
With SARAH REAL ESTATE GROUP, a real estate investment in the US is viable, easy, clear, and safe.
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Many international investors way the option of investing in real estate in Miami , but are logically preoccupied by the issue of having to manage their property from a distance.
This is no minor preoccupation considering a real estate investment needs permanent attention, upkeep and care. This issue can indeed turn into a major headache.
To appease the minds of its foreign investment clients, SARAH REAL ESTATE GROUP offers an integral in-situ real estate management service in Miami. Through our management, and availing ourselves of a highly qualified team of external contractors, we ensure top-notch care and maintenance of all the real estate investments of our clients.
Our team of external contractors includes handymen, plumbers, electricians, and painters, cleaning assistants, gardeners, air conditioning and other appliances technicians, and top-quality architects and licensed builders.
With the support of this great team, we handle all kinds of repairs and emergencies, touch-ups of minor details, or conduct cleaning when required, having a single purpose in mind: ensuring that the properties are kept in impeccable conditions so that their value increases, and they are always profitable for our clients.
Another basic element of our real estate management services is profiling, reviewing, and recommending qualified tenants for our clients’ properties, and then making them feel at home.
When we lease real estate units on behalf of our clients, we establish and maintain direct relationships and communications with the lessees to ensure they are provided with top-notch services and care throughout the agreement’s term. This also implies receiving monthly rent payments, paying any applicable monthly bills, costs and expenses, and depositing the balance in our clients’ bank accounts. Finally, we issue detailed monthly and annual statements to each one of our clients reflecting any and all work done as property managers on their behalf.
In short, we care for our clients’ properties as if these were our own, providing them with the required peace of mind about the soundness and growth of their investment, and always keeping their best interests at heart.
Any and all real estate deals involve significant legal consideration.
Real estate deals entail, among others, carrying out an efficient negotiation process, entering into and signing several agreements, ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and formalities, performing title searches and reviews, requesting and delivering insurance policies to safeguard such titles and property, and rigorously closing such deals.
Furthermore, when an international investor decides to invest in real estate in the US, the legal issues requiring professional attention are even more complex.
Real estate investments by foreign nationals require, in the first place, a legal corporate structure that, depending on each specific case, could imply the need to establish one or more corporations in the US or even in an offshore jurisdiction with a more benevolent tax system.
Establishing such corporations for foreign nationals performing real estate investments in the US is of utmost importance. These legal entities constitute the means to limit the personal responsibility of investors and to sever their personal assets from those used to realize the investment in the US. Additionally, corporations may afford the investor the possibility to maximize applicable tax benefits, thus reducing the tax burden.
The extremely high tax burden arising out of or deriving from US estate or inheritance taxes is particularly relevant in this context. Without a properly designed legal structure including, on a case by case basis, an estate asset protection structure involving corporations in the US and/or in offshore jurisdictions, as well as other important available legal means, such as a Trust, foreign investors and/or their heirs could find themselves significantly unprotected or at risk.
All of the above, among other reasons, evidences the need and relevance of engaging a highly qualified professional legal advisor prior to investing in real estate in the US. It is also the main reason for which a foreign investor should not avail himself or herself simply of the services of a real estate broker, but rather of a specialized real estate brokerage firm, such as SARAH REAL ESTATE, that provides him or her with integral advise that addresses, handles and solves all applicable legal, tax, financial and accounting issues during the investment process.
One of the most significant advantages available to foreign investors at SARAH REAL ESTATE is our capability to obtain mortgage financing in the US.
Mortgage financing has proven to be one of the key drivers of robust real estate markets in the US. Even though many may not be aware of it, the truth is that any properly advised foreign investor might be eligible to receive a loan from any US financial or credit institution in order to realize excellent real estate investments.
SARAH REAL ESTATE requests, handles and obtains, guaranteed mortgage financing with very favorable terms and conditions for all of its international investment clients that so require. SARAH REAL ESTATE has ongoing agreements to that effect with several banks and credit institutions, including some international ones -such as BBVA or HSBC banks-, and an array of US lenders that offer mortgage-financing programs specially designed for international or foreign investors.
On a per case basis, mortgage financing for a foreign investor may be requested for an amount equivalent to, at most, 75% of total purchase value. However, we should note that financing amounting to 50% of total purchase value is completely guaranteed in any case.
Today, the US macroeconomic and market conditions for attaining mortgage loans are extremely favorable, even for international investors. The US Federal Reserve’s reference rate is at a historical low point: 2.25%. With such a favorable reference rate, SARAH REAL ESTATE is able to obtain mortgage loans, with 30-year amortization periods to its investment clients, at fixed interest rates ranging between 4% and 6.5% per year. We should note that the 6.5% rate is rather high, but it is reserved only for worst-case scenarios. We can contrast these rates against, for example, mortgage rates in Latin American countries where annual interest can reach excessive levels of up to 12% per year for mortgage financings.
International investors who engage the services and advise of SARAH REAL ESTATE can stop worrying about obtaining a loan in the US. Even though they will still need to gather all requested information and documentation, pursuant to the precise guidelines provided to that effect, SARAH REAL ESTATE will take charge of processing and obtaining the mortgage loan, guiding its investors, step by step, and handling the entire process before the financial institutions, in a strictly guaranteed and personalized manner.