As part of the Natland 2.0 strategy, we have set ourselves a greater specialisation in the Natland Investment Group – we invest capital in medium-sized companies and our strategic focus is on energy and real estate. In an interview with Jaroslav Bukovský for the daily E15, the founder of Natland and its majority owner Tomáš Raška talked, among other things, about the current times, which bring opportunities every day, but in the end the opposite can happen, when there will be opportunities, but there will be a lack of investors. “There won’t be as much capital willing to invest at that level of risk and in uncertain sectors. It is not a question of how much there is, but how much there is at a certain level of risk,” says Tomáš Raška. In any case, Natland is most often used as a key partner in projects, which can react quickly and flexibly to situations and help the management to decide what to do next.
They also looked for answers to the questions
- What does the property market look like at the moment?
- How does inflation affect retail?
- What is holding back the development of the Czech Republic and the region?
- And many more…. Read an excerpt from the interview here:
I see an unusually large number of opportunities to buy real estate
The real estate business in the Czech Republic is going through a recessionary shakeout. Any of the smaller players who do not have enough money of their own or extreme investor confidence will go out of business or fall into the hands of competitors, warns Tomáš Raška, owner and head of the investment company Natland. He adds, however, that the ordinary person probably will not recognize the business realignment of forces. “There will be a washout in funds, foreign-owned investors, and recreational real estate. I do not expect armageddon at the level of final ownership of apartments. Properties are often mortgaged and banks know how to work with that. It won’t be that people will sell and move en masse,” says Tomáš Raška, owner and head of the investment company Natland.
Opportunities are abundant, every day there is one. But eventually the opposite situation may occur, where there will be opportunities but no investors. There won’t be as much capital willing to invest at that level of risk and in uncertain sectors. It is not a question of how much there is, but how much there is at a certain level of risk. When you meet only unicorns on the street, there is a lot of capital. But when you see companies in trouble, even if you know how to fix the company, you need a certain amount of optimism in the market as a whole. So, purely in theory, when the market is falling, you should buy, but it’s different in distressed assets than in the stock market.