Chinese state media has reported that China may soon publish rules restricting outbound investment by Chinese firms in certain sectors. According to Chinese Commerce Minister Zhong Shan, a few Chinese companies have invested overseas “blindly and irrationally”. The government will…
Diversifying investment portfolios has always been the key to ensuring a secure financial future. It’s widely believed that the most successful members of any society have upwards of seven sources of income, and that ensuring stability later in life depends…
The global political arena may have thrown a level of uncertainty over the many international relationships over recent months, but the relationship between Middle Eastern investors and the US real estate market is certainly not one of them. Alongside an…
Opportunities to penetrate the Southeast Asian real estate market are few and far between. An incredibly coveted asset, the market is traditionally dominated by domestic investors, who themselves are looking to diversify portfolios elsewhere. With incredible demand, a fantastic rate…
Europe has always been a rewarding market for investors from the Middle East, especially when it comes to real estate. Certain fields, such as London, are of particular interest. Property values have continued to play the role of a reliable…
Outbound capital flows from the Middle East reached 10 billion USD in the first half of 2016, according to CBRE’s Middle East “In and Out” 2016 report. Much of this capital was deployed in US property markets. Middle Eastern sovereign…
Middle Eastern real estate investors are partnering with US developers to make significant investments into US property. The Kuwait Real Estate Company (Aqarat) has partnered with New York’s Synapse Development Group to invest a total of 25 million USD in…
The post-Brexit fallout has included reports that several investors are planning to withdraw from the UK – but for many Chinese investors, Brexit represents a rare opportunity to enter or expand their presence in the UK property market. Chinese investors…
According to Deloitte, the long-standing trade and investment partnership between Germany and China has built a solid foundation for Chinese companies to invest in Germany. Germany is China’s largest European trading partner, and Chinese entities have been increasingly involved in…
Chinese individuals and institutions have spent over 16.1 billion USD on overseas real estate in the first half of 2016, representing a massive increase over H1 2015, when they invested less than 8 billion USD. Chinese insurance companies were responsible…
The rapid devaluation of the Chinese yuan triggered a massive capital outflow of between 700 billion and 1 trillion USD in 2015. And a great deal of this investment capital is going into overseas real estate. In the first half…
In H1 2016, foreign investors spent a total of 5.1 billion USD on apartment properties in the US. Investment into US apartments by foreign buyers has averaged 5.4 billion USD over the past ten years, and so the activity seen…
Ever since the historic Brexit vote, property firm Select Property has reportedly seen a 200 percent increase in enquiries about UK real estate from investors based in the GCC (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman).…
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) recently invested 2.45 billion USD into acquiring an office building in Singapore. QIA bought the 43-storey building, Asian Square Tower 1, from US based private equity firm BlackRock. It is the largest single-tower real estate…
Conflicting reports on investor confidence and preference have emerged following Brexit, with some analysts pointing to the “bargains” available in the UK’s real estate sector and the likelihood that foreign investors will flock to take advantage of these opportunities. However,…