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Sizzling Hot Emerging Real Estate Markets

sao-paulo-skyline-night The recent Knowledge@Wharton Real Estate in Emerging Markets Forum revealed some interesting facts in regards to world real estate markets and where the action is right now.

While the US, Western Europe and some of the BRIC economies experience drastic times of little or no growth, no demand and plenty of bankruptcies and job losses, some other countries keep building their assets in earnest.

Attention Mexico Investors!

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Sea facing hillside homes in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

The Mexican constitution has enjoyed a bad reputation amongst overseas investors so far because it prohibits foreign ownership of land within the country. To attract more foreign capital, Mexico has created the “fideicomiso”, which is a form of real estate trust. To legally execute the trust, a Mexican bank must be designated as the trustee and own the title to a property. This will see the bank being the actual owner on record for real estate bought by foreigners.