The Investment Property Databank (IPD)'s Rural Property Investment Index recorded a total return of 25.7% in 2007, up from 17.6% the previous year. The record return makes the Rural Property Investment Index the second-best performing IPD index in the UK last year, outstripping commercial and residential property, which earned investors -3.4% and 17.0% respectively.
Morgan Stanley spin-off, Proprium, made a 20-times multiple on its €65 mln equity investment in 2007 in Motel One.
