OVERVIEW OF ASIA FOR GLOBAL PROPERTY INVESTORS (PART1) ZIV MAGEN
an overview, and a brief and lacking one at that. My
personal Asian niche’, as outlined in previous articles
in the series, is Japan – as for the rest of the
countries in this list – you’ll have to dig in deeper
yourselves. Fortunately, however, the increasing
trend of globalization now means that, in the vast
majority of cases, there are now English resources
and English-speaking professionals on the ground in
all of these countries for you to take advantage of
and partner with. And if you’ve been following the
Add
to
Singapore’s
Hong-Kong’s
excellent material outlined in this magazine and
increasingly recognizable status as two of the
other similar resources on and off line, you should be
world’s top financial hubs, the skyrocketing rise of
well equipped, as far as due diligence and deal
South
that,
Korea’s
and
technological
and
financial
achievements, India and Russia’s stellar economic
analysis skills go, and be ready to, literally, take on
the world.
growth, and you’ll begin to see why mutual and
hedge funds, high net worth families and global
asset managers are expanding their financial
footprint in Asia.
But, “simple folk” are also
expanding their financial footprint into Asia.
People like you and me, your next door neighbors,
the retired and semi-retired “mom and dad” type
investors,
as
well
as
young
and
1. Singapore
savvy
professionals and entrepreneurs from all walks of
The best thing about Singapore is that it’s one of the
life.
world’s
most
regulated
and
corruption-free
environments. In similar fashion to Japan, you’d
And for those among us, like the readers of this
publication, who value real-estate vehicles as an
have to work really hard to find someone who’d dare
to steal from you here. The city-state has done a