Investment Approach
Travant Real Estate makes investments in top-end commercial, retail and high end residential developments in desired locations.
Travant Real Estate's professionals have deep experience in Real Estate in Africa including investment, project management and construction. This expertise enables us to shepherd investments from conception through to completion.
Travant is able to apply its deep experience to provide both technical and financial solutions to the most intractable problems. In addition to proprietary developments, Travant is involved in acquisition, re-construction and ongoing asset management. This flexibility enables us to participate in the majority of Real Estate asset classes found in our investment region.
Travant Real Estate's principal focus geographies are Nigeria and Ghana in light of the significant demand backlogs in those countries. Several trends underline the opportunity:
Booming Real Estate Markets
From Dakar to Kinshasa, real estate markets in Africa have witnessed unprecedented strength. Driven by a combination of factors including growing cities, a growing middle class buoyed by remittances and expatriate influx, real estate is a sellers' market. Travant seeks to address this supply/demand mismatch by fostering the development of real estate assets across classes from residential, to mass housing to commercial office space.
Increasing demand for hospitality and tourism
The number of visitors to Africa continues to grow driven by greater interest being shown in the region by multinational firms, financial investors and tourists. In many countries, adequate accommodation is both limited and overly expensive. Travant Real Estate will seek to exploit this opportunity through participation in hotel development across our investment zone.
Demand for Building Materials and Construction
Demand for building materials will grow in line with overall demand for real estate on the continent. Often, building materials are sourced expensively overseas where adequate local supply is unavailable. Travant will seek to make investments in building materials where possible to reduce this potential cost bottleneck in its real estate projects.
The construction industry in many areas of our investment region, and especially in Nigeria, is underdeveloped and represents a significant bottleneck to new development, often causing multi-year project delays. To correct this problem, Travant will seek to support the development of companies working in the construction industry. This will provide construction resources for Travant's development projects and also tap into the opportunity created by this market imbalance.