Reid Kirchenbauer

Buying a Condo in Phuket: The Ultimate Guide

Buying a Condo in Phuket: The Ultimate Guide

Last updated February 15th, 2024.   Buying a condo in Phuket is something that thousands of foreign investors have already done. It's undoubtedly easier to own real estate in Thailand compared to most other countries in Asia. Thus, if you want to own property on...

Buying Property in Laos: Restrictive and Difficult

Buying Property in Laos: Restrictive and Difficult

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...

Malaysia Foreign Property Ownership: Your Best Options

Malaysia Foreign Property Ownership: Your Best Options

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...

Thailand Foreign Property Ownership: Your Best Options

Thailand Foreign Property Ownership: Your Best Options

Last updated November 3rd, 2023.   There is one country that undoubtedly comes to mind when someone mentions Southeast Asia: Thailand. Foreign property ownership in Thailand is among the most popular methods of direct investment in Asia. Westerners will sometimes...

3 Changes to Know Before Investing in Myanmar

3 Changes to Know Before Investing in Myanmar

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...

Top 8 Korea Property Developers: A Complete Guide

Top 8 Korea Property Developers: A Complete Guide

Last updated November 24th, 2023.   South Korea escaped the middle-income trap to join Singapore and Japan as the Asia-Pacific region’s third wealthiest country. As such, Korea property developers benefit from the nation's rising home demand. This puts it in a...

Investing in Korea Property: The Ultimate Guide

Investing in Korea Property: The Ultimate Guide

Last updated June 12th, 2023.   Compared to neighboring Japan, anyone investing in South Korea property saw significantly better performance over the past few decades. South Korea is located in a triangle of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the Sea of...

Top 10 Indonesia Property Developers: Complete Guide

Top 10 Indonesia Property Developers: Complete Guide

Last updated March 28th, 2024. 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...

Top 10 Japan Property Developers: A Complete Guide

Top 10 Japan Property Developers: A Complete Guide

Last updated February 9th, 2024. 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...

Why Frontier Economies Will Outperform in the 2020s

Why Frontier Economies Will Outperform in the 2020s

Last updated September 16th, 2023.   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...