Queensland has been Australia's fastest-growing state and receives much Asian investment in property and tourism.
The vast tax subsidies for housing encourage over-investment in property rather than other, more productive, assets.
Investment in property accounted for more than 60% of total registered foreign capital in Vietnam last year.
Investment in property development accounts for more than 10% of GDP and has an impact on other sectors as well.
This week's report suggests that she will argue for further steps to release more land together with reforms to ginger up the industry and tax incentives to encourage more institutional investment in property.
In addition, the Administration is proposing changes to the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA) aimed at enhancing the attractiveness of investment in U.S. infrastructure and real estate to a broader universe of private investors.
Over the past decade, investment in Japanese property has been one of the surest ways of losing a fortune, as prices have slid relentlessly.
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But as markets settle, if not into equilibrium then into a more accepting perspective of a longer-term period of turmoil, expect investment activity in property to quickly pick up the pae.
If the investment community is likewise thick then we could get a reasonably liquid secondary market in investment property.
Direct investment by individuals in property and the stock markets is positive, but speculation, or over-investment, can be problematic.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian government has concentrated its development spending in the big cities and on desert-reclamation schemes, while channelling private investment into industry and property in the north.
Today, says Jones Lang LaSalle, a property and hotel consultancy, hotels are the lowest-yielding property investment in the region.
Colony Capital, an American investment fund which specialises in property, and Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, a French luxury goods firm, banded together last year to invest in Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer.
The better October flash PMI and September data paint a consistent picture of a likely further pickup in economic activity on the back of more accommodative monetary conditions, increasing infrastructure investment, recovering property market activity in second and third tier level cities and improving external demand, mainly in Asia and emerging markets.
The slowdown is partly due to less investment in real estate and other property-related businesses.
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The result: The first real estate investment trust that specializes in acquiring property from owners with a charitable intent.
REITs are therefore more liquid than other forms of property investment and in theory attract new classes of investor.
Another interesting investment was property, which in general provided investors with highly attractive returns over the past decade, even after the sharp correction during the recent recession.
While some in the property sector have been predicting that China's maturing economy would lead to a wave of investment in U.S. real estate akin to the Japanese property-buying spree of the late 1980s, thus far, it has only been trickling in.
The breakdown in China FAI shows that infrastructure and property investment remained strong, which offset a further slowdown in the manufacturing sector.
Investment in China is 40% in manufacturing, 30% in property and the consumer, and the rest in infrastructure and heavy state industry.
Fraud was a material part of the mortgage collapse, a big factor in commercial property and loan losses and a component in investment banking and private-equity losses that did more damage than acknowledged.
Meanwhile, the prospects for healthy returns from investment in shares, bonds and commercial property look as volatile as ever.
And it is worth recalling that previous surges of cross-border property investment (Japan in the 1980s, for instance) did not end well.
Real estate is engaged in property development and investment and hotel operation.
The underlying demand for housing remains very strong due to a number of factors, including urbanization, rising incomes, high saving rates and the attractiveness of property as an investment in China.
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One Australian household in six owns an investment property.
Data on the property sector show that despite double-digit declines in property sales, investment remains resilient nationwide and picked up as expected in the poorer central and western regions rather than along the expensive, and built-out coastlines in cities like Shanghai.
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