Buying property in the Philippines can be a profitable venture. The country boasts a young, educated, and English-speaking population which bodes well for the real estate market's future. Yet the real estate market here is tricky to navigate with varying laws and...
Compared to elsewhere in Asia, anyone buying real estate in South Korea saw superior performance over the past few decades. South Korea is located in a triangle between the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and the Sea of Japan. Due to its geographic position between Japan...
Last updated January 18th, 2024. Perhaps no other country in Asia, or the world, will have a greater impact during the 21st century than India. With a consistently high GDP growth rate exceeding 6% and a track record of avoiding recessions since the late 1970s,...
Last updated December 25th, 2023. For about a decade, we've advised our clients and readers that they should never combine a vacation home with an investment. Mixing a lifestyle purchase with an optimal investment has never been a good idea. If anything, the...
Last updated September 22nd, 2023. REITs in Asia are diversed. These funds invest in a wide range of property from multibillion dollar commercial malls in city center locations, to logistics warehouses in emerging markets. There’s an old investing maxim that...
Last updated January 13th, 2024. Certain countries in Asia are ill-suited to foreign real estate investors who are seeking to diversify their portfolio. Seoul, South Korea is among these cities which are best avoided. The facts about Korea’s investment potential are...
Last updated September 13th, 2023. Don’t let the growing frontier economy of Laos fool you. This Southeast Asian country is among the region’s most restrictive to foreign investment. You should exercise caution when buying property, investing in stocks, or...
Last updated March 16th, 2024. Foreign property ownership in Malaysia is perhaps easier than anywhere else on the whole continent. Asia is a continent that, by and large, does not hold the sensibilities of free markets or widespread property ownership. It has...
Last updated April 16th, 2024. Imagine this: you buy the beautiful house in Vietnam of your dreams, where you plan to spend the rest of your life with your loved ones and hand it over to your children. But a few decades later, somebody comes up to your property and...