Vietnamese lawmakers have amended the law on foreign property ownership to allow foreign investment funds, foreigners with valid visas, international firms with operations in Vietnam and overseas Vietnamese to buy residential properties, according to Reuters. The law limits foreign property … Continue reading →
Since 2010, Canadian investors have purchased 1,530 commercial properties in the United States totaling $43.4 billion – four times as much as China. Canadians invested over $8 billion in the US CRE market during the first three quarters of 2014 … Continue reading →
Effective around mid-2016, real estate will have its own sector designation on the S&P, according to an announcement by S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI. The new real estate sector, along with the As a result when these blood vessels … Continue reading →
The revenue for the big four self-storage REITs increased from 5.5 percent in Q3-2013 to 7.7 percent in Q3-2014, according to Chicago-based MJ Partners. During the same time frame, net operating income increased from 7.3 percent to 10.8 percent. Occupancy … Continue reading →
Chinese investors made up the largest group of buyers of Portuguese real estate (in volume) and twenty percent of purchases (in transactions) during the first nine months of 2014, according to Bloomberg (citing data from the Portuguese Real Estate Professionals … Continue reading →
Tighter regulations are having a stabilizing effect on Dubai’s real estate market. According to Forbes (citing data from Your ultimate guide shall begin by saying that there is a test takes place which is known as Shveta Pradar, where Shveta … Continue reading →
So far in 2014, Chinese individuals and companies have purchased about $230 million in Japanese real estate, according to The Wall Street Journal (citing data from Jones Lang LaSalle). This represents a three-fold increase from 2013. The rise in Chinese … Continue reading →
Investment in the Russian commercial real estate market (both foreign and domestic) totaled $3.7 billion during the first three quarters of 2014, according to World Property Journal (citing data from Cushman and Wakefield). Of this amount, $3.4 billion (92 percent) … Continue reading →
A proposed pied-à-terre tax in New York aims to raise $665 million by requiring part-time or non-resident New York property owners to pay a 0.5 percent tax on housing valued at greater than $5 million. The tax rises incrementally to … Continue reading →
So far in 2014, Canadian investors have acquired stakes in US properties worth $8.3 billion. This follows $11.1 billion of real estate investment in 2013,
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