‘Ransom Strips’ - A Guide for Real Estate Professionals

Introduction

This one hour introductory level webinar will explain the value of owning a ransom strip and how and when to create them.

It will provide guidance towards how to calculate and structure payments for transfer of ownership or the grant of rights over a ransom strip. It will also consider practical steps to be taken by landowners to realise the financial potential of a ransom strip.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• What is a ransom strip?
• Why own a ransom strip?
• Whether size matters?
• When to create a ransom strip
• Why create a ransom strip
• The relative merits of creating a ransom strip against other approaches (e.g. restrictive covenants or overage provisions)
• The approach to calculating compensation for releasing a ransom
• Structuring the timing of payments for release
• Considering what is approved in exchange for a payment and whether future ransom value should be retained
• Payment of costs
• Practical steps to protect a ransom strip

This webinar was recorded on 3rd September 2019

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