King and Campbell reported in 2013 that large mergers and acquisitions have established procedures for conducting due-diligence evaluations of mining and distressed property projects valued at greater than $50 million. Large companies must engage the large law firms and financial advisors, more for defensive purposes than out of necessity.
With the trillions of dollars now sitting on the sidelines, and with the high prices of many mineral commodities and low cost of distressed real estate properties, qualified investors are presented with a dilemma.
When is this money going to go to work?
Investment in brick-and-mortar shops, even in shopping centers or strips, have to count on the U.S. economy bouncing back quickly or the potential returns are not worth the risk. Such investments are not being made (in 2012), so the money remains tied up.
Not in decades of business as usual in the U.S. and Europe have there been a better opportunity than now to invest in mineral commodities and/or distressed real estate properties. This is especially favorable during the unusual business cycle that currently prevails, and which is likely to last while the U.S. and European economies learn how to re-stabilize and regenerate the structure of their new economies.
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