Last updated April 8th, 2022. The process of opening up and liberalizing a developing nation is never an easy task. It's especially hard for Myanmar, a Southeast Asian country which was closed off from the world economy until 2008... and then underwent a coup barely a...
Last updated April 27th, 2025. South Korea escaped the middle-income trap to join Singapore and Japan as Asia's third wealthiest country. Because of this, property developers in Korea benefit from relatively new demand for housing. Few other countries in the world...
Last updated April 2nd, 2025. Ranked as the fourth largest country in the world in terms of population size, Indonesia's real estate developers are naturally among the fastest growing companies in Southeast Asia. If history is any guide for what happens in such...
Last updated March 13th, 2025. In many aspects, Japan is unique in its history and culture. Investors will find that Japanese property developers are also unique in their finances and approach to real estate. If you come from the Western world, you're likely not...
Last updated May 21st, 2025. Frontier economies will outpace developed economies in the 2020s because of a simple mathematical truth. 1+1 equals 2, which is a 100% increase. Meanwhile, 100+1 equals 101, and that’s merely a 1% increase. In other words, a modest, evenly...
Update for January, 2023: We’ve finally entered a new decade as 2023 begins. Here’s our updated article with the top countries to invest in 2023. 2020 was a particularly interesting time where many investing myths were tested. A year ago, we were talking about...
Last updated August 5th, 2025. On the surface, buying real estate that caters to tourists seems like a fantastic idea. Not only are the locations and buildings beautiful but the tourists often have a higher disposable income than the locals. And with that thought in...
Last updated March 12th, 2025. China is Asia’s quintessential success story. Since the 1980s, the country has transformed into an economic powerhouse. And Chinese property developers have certainly helped fuel nation's rapid change. The Chinese construction boom has...
Last updated February 4th, 2025. Imagine this: you buy a beautiful house in Vietnam, where you plan to spend the rest of your life with your loved ones. But a few decades later, somebody comes up to your property and says that the time's up: your dream house is no...
Since the beginning of 2020, the world economy has been reeling from the onset of a global pandemic, the likes of which has not been seen since the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918. The economic impacts of this event have been dubbed "The Great Lockdown". Western...