By Adeola Ogunlade
A real estate company, Lifecard Investment Company has launched its Lifecard Co-Invest platform which is set to provide investment, development opportunities, information, tools, and funding for young and aspiring real estate investors.
The Executive Director of Lifecard Investment Company, Grace Ofure Ibhakhomu announced this at a press conference held recently in Lagos, said that this platform not only gives the right tools, information and materials when it comes to real estate but also serves as a veritable tool in capacity building and financial empowerment.
According to her, this platform empowers young people for the future, it broadens the mindset of the youths who don’t have the financial capacity to acquire properties alone but also gives them the right tools, training and platform to leverage the vast opportunities and career path the real estate space has to offer.
She stressed that as an investment initiative, co-invest platform brings relatives, friends and people of likeminded together to pool resources for investment in properties in high growth locations where ordinarily, on their own, individual investors would be able to afford.
“The initiative has able to bring together over 1, 00 young investors who have cause to smile for taking the decision to be part of the opportunity the platform offers”, she said.
She said that as a company that thrives on integrity and commitment, they take investors preference into consideration and provide the platform through which they can invest in high growth development that guarantee good return on investment.
Ibhakhomu, as a young realtors, said embarked on co-investment and was empowered to forge ahead. Today, I am glad to say it has given me even more than I bargained for.
“Co-investment was what empowered me as a young lady in my early days when I just got into the real estate space. It gave me the knowledge of how my retirement and earnings will look like in a foreseeable future and today I am glad to say it gave me even more than I bargained for”, she said.
She further said that for about two decades of my active carreer in the real estate space, one thing I have come to terms with is the fact that sustainable wealth creation and is not a product of wishful thinking, but a conscious effort that is borne out from the right information.
Although she asserted that investment platforms have had its drawback, especially on issues of mutual trust and investor’s confidence, said that overtime investors’ concerns have been addressed.
In his words, Developer, Lifecard Investment Limited, Udeze Somto Great said that technology has taken care of the lapses that the platform used to have.
He opined that the new platform has not only guarantee safety of investment, it has also reduced human interface such that investors do no necessarily have to cause to stay in order to make their contribution.
“The platform is user friendly and it is open to potentials co-investors who have access to the APP”, he assured, urging young investors to tap into the opportunities which the platform has offer many and still counting”.
“It is dream of this platform is to raise thousands of millionaires through real estate and the best way for us to start something through the co-investment platform, he said.