Who’s Buying Up Our Houses?

You might find it interesting to know that it’s not only local investors who are buying properties in your community. Did you know that foreign investors still prefer U.S. real estate as their opportunity of choice? Recently a survey conducted by The Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) in the fourth quarter of 2009 revealed some interesting statistics:

· Fifty one percent of the 200 members holding more than $842 billion in real estate globally, identified the U.S. as best for capital appreciation.

· This is up dramatically from the previous 3 years

· It was way back in 2003 that a majority of respondents’ perceptions were this high

· Finally 2/3 of respondents plan to increase their investments in the U.S. in 2010

From all this what can we conclude? Optimism about the real estate market in our homeland remains strong and this will help move our market along. Of course, these represent some big players so much of their holdings will be multi-family housing and commercial. Nonetheless, this is a good indicator of things to come. The simple fact is that our stable history is still showing we are the best place to do real estate investing.

Western Europe markets have been hit hard during this global recession. Foreign and domestic REI activity nationally will likely mitigate the length of our own recession stateside.

As a real estate wholesaler I am encouraged to Euros, GB Pound, Yen, Rubles and the like come into our market as it strengthens our position. We have a clear advantage. We are here! We should also have some insight into our local markets and this will help us to “bird dog” deals to wholesale to foreign cash buyers. And once the market starts a solid climb, local cash home buyers will “come out of the woodwork.”

That is why I have put so much stock into my website and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) so I am able to market to some of these cash buyers from “across the drink.” It would be incredibly difficult for a small-time REI business to accomplish this without the costly process of building and maintaining a real, effective website. The sad truth is that a very small fraction of websites out there really actually draw traffic to their respective businesses. With that said I suggest you see mine @ invesdoor.com for an example of an REI site that will draw international buyers. Till next time, remember that nothing lasts forever….not even this blasted recession.

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