Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Governments Ease Foreign Ownership Restrictions to Stimulate Investment

With global markets down, governments worldwide are looking at ways to attract investors resulting in changes in foreign and nonresident ownership laws designed to stimulate in-bound investment, according to the National Association of REALTORS®.

Caribbean nations, China, and Australia have all recently loosened restrictions and the Philippines is discussing it. India and Turkey made significant changes in recent years with the same objective. Emerging markets are most likely to examine their laws as most western markets have had few, if any, restrictions on foreign ownership.

Read more in a recent Wall Street Journal article. Information on foreign ownership is available for 30+ countries in the Business Practices section at WorldProperties.com.