WEALTHY individuals can secure impressive yields by following professional investors into property funds.
Fund managers M&G and Legal & General have led a recent charge into student accommodation, contributing almost half the £800m invested in the sector in the first half of the year, according to CBRE, the property consultancy.
Investors will also have the chance to put a regulated, pure residential property fund in their pension and Isa for the first time next month when Hearthstone Investments launches its fund.
Meanwhile, Rockpool Investments, a private equity network set up this year, has chosen a social housing development on Merseyside as its first investment.
Rockpool is chaired by Nicola Horlick, the high-profile fund manager, who said: “Interest rates are exceptionally low and it looks as