There are mixed reviews on the benefits of opportunity zone fundinvestments, but in the end, opportunity zones require the sameanalysis and scrutiny as standard investments. CatherineHolmes of Jeffer Mangles Butler &Mitchell says that strong fundamentals are integral toinvesting in opportunity zones, but if investors follow the sameguidelines that they would for any real estate investment, they canbe a good investment prospect.

“Investors should be looking for projects that have strongfundamentals—including developers with strong track records ofprior successful developments, reasonable capital appreciationpotential based on market research, and developers with skin in thegame,” Holmes, chair of JMBM's Investment Capital Law Group, tellsGlobeSt.com. “In this respect, investing in OpportunityZone projects requires the same analysis of risk and potentialreward as other investments.”