The U.S. been an attractive market to international investors and is attracting many from afar to come here and pour billions of dollars into our real estate. Foreign investors tend to see the United States as a “Plan B.” Any country that has an unstable political or economic situation tends to look at the United States as a very favorable place to invest funds, especially since the returns that they've seen here over the past more several decades have been outperforming their country. Plus, their concern is always what happens if we have a new president or our economy collapses, which happens quite regularly, especially in Eastern Europe or in some of the South American countries. So, while we are dealing with what we think is spreading incivility right now, international investors maybe scoff at that and say, “let's go, you have a real estate market here that makes a lot of sense, why don't we start looking at some of these opportunities that we are hearing about?”
That is the other side of the coin. Today we have a market that's been created out of a bubble that has burst and many foreign investors see an opportunity that they haven't seen in the United States in the last 15 or 20 years. They look at our real estate market as a fantastic opportunity. Whereas before foreign residents were looking at the United States as more of an opportunity to have just a second home and own a residence in a major metropolitan area, today they are looking at investment opportunities, they are looking at commercial properties, malls, or anything they see as value.
It’s all in the perspective! Call for some good investment opportunities.