{"id":925,"date":"2008-01-07T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.DuncanWierman.com\/content\/what-are-the-best-international-real-estate-opportunities-for-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T14:48:01","slug":"what-are-the-best-international-real-estate-opportunities-for-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duncanwierman.com\/content\/what-are-the-best-international-real-estate-opportunities-for-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the best international real estate opportunities for 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunities are abundant.\u00a0 Find out some of my recommended spots for huge returns. <!--more--><!--fms--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cambodia<\/strong>. The real estate market in this country has evolved  dramatically over the last seven to 10 years. Today, the local housing market is  booming. Friends and contacts who have been building houses and flipping land in  Cambodia report profits in recent years of 100% and more\u2026per year. Impressive  returns, no question, but realizing them can be complicated. Foreigners can\u2019t  own real estate in this country directly, so you need to work with a local  partner. And, of course, it\u2019s not easy to find a local partner you can trust,  not only here but anywhere, so this market isn\u2019t for everyone. However, if  you\u2019ve got a portion of your portfolio ear-marked for high-risk investments,  this country deserves consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, this market offers the potential for extraordinarily high  returns\u2026but this  comes with an equally high risk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Philippines<\/strong>. This market is opening up, and it\u2019s now  possible for foreigners to own condos directly. Manila has seen good  appreciation over the last few years, but I wouldn\u2019t say that\u2019s the play right  now. I think the up-and-coming resort destinations of Cebu and Boracay are the  places to look this year.There are many new construction opportunities. Buying pre-construction to  flip may make sense, but buying to rent could have more potential. Proposed  rental returns for condo-hotel units range from 10% to 12%, which is well above  the 5% to 8% return you can typically expect worldwide. These yields won\u2019t hold  up long-term, but you can expect these higher than average returns until the  market becomes more discovered and purchase prices are pushed up (which will  lower rental yields). Meantime, you should see good capital appreciation as  well.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines are less risky than Cambodia and still offer the potential  for well above-average returns, both from capital appreciation and rental.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romania<\/strong><strong>. <\/strong>Now is the time to invest in  Romania, as there is a steady increase of tourism, resulting in plenty of  opportunities in the short-term rental market. There is also a growing demand  for apartments in the capital, Bucharest. I&#8217;ve never been able to say this  before about a market&#8230;but in this city right now, it&#8217;s almost impossible to  not make money on the right type of real estate deal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poland<\/strong>. Poland has already seen serious appreciation of  values and should continue to do so for the coming years as its economy  continues to expand. It\u2019s the biggest market in Eastern Europe and still hides  many pockets of opportunity, both for local residential housing and commercial  rentals. Krakov has been an area of rapid growth, which will continue.<\/p>\n<p>I will keep you updated as I see the markets move.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/fms--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunities are abundant.\u00a0 Find out some of my recommended spots for huge returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":939,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duncanwierman.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duncanwierman.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duncanwierman.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duncanwierman.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/939"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duncanwierman.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duncanwierman.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duncanwierman.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duncanwierman.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duncanwierman.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}