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investors from out of country are snapping up deals in Florida

Offshore investors snapping up Fla. real estate

MIAMI (AP) – Aug. 8, 2011 – Offshore investors are flocking to Florida’s distressed real estate prices as major companies with ties to Hong Kong, Spain, Argentina and Malaysia are snapping up properties sensing the local market has bottomed.

International companies can park their investment and position themselves for the next development cycle, said Tere Blanca, president and chief executive officer of Miami-based Blanca Commercial Real Estate.

“Acquiring prime properties at discount prices in the height of the market was not achievable. Whomever has deep liquidity and can be nimble and act when opportunities arise can acquire properties at what we consider to be solid pricing,” he said, according to the Daily Business Review.

Stephan Gietl of Austria and his partner Fernando Levy-Hara, of Argentina, have purchased 307 South Florida condo units for $40 million since 2009. The duo has sold most of the units, mainly to international investors. Levy-Hara says the units yield between 5 and 6 percent profit per year after maintenance fees and property taxes.

“With the potential appreciation, if you’re buying at half the price of the bubble, you have the potential to go up 60 to 70 percent in the next five years,” he said.

As Americans worry about the economy and debt ceiling, international investors still perceive the U.S. as “the most reliable country in the world,” said Andrew Hellinger, chief executive of Coral Gables-based Hellinger & Penabad.

“We are a country where you can place your money for investment and know it’s safe.”

South Florida’s most notable recent deals have ties to investors with connections to major international companies.

Swire Properties, part of Hong Kong-based real estate and airline owner Swire Pacific, bought 2.15 acres in Miami at $14 million, along with the $13.1 million acquisition of Eastern Bank’s headquarters.

In May, Malaysia-based Genting Group paid $236 million for the Miami Herald’s headquarters. Genting, which also owns 50 percent of Norwegian Cruise Lines, plans to build nearly 7 million square feet of hotel, convention and restaurant space. Genting executives cited Florida’s growing population, budding Miami tourism and a likely nonstop flight from Asia to Miami International Airport as motivating the deal.

Agave Holdings, with ties to the owner of Jose Cuervo tequila, paid First Bank Puerto Rico $30.55 million for a project in Coral Gables.

Espacio USA, the American arm of Spanish real estate company Inmobiliaria Espacio, is about to close on its second office building. The company paid $31.52 million for another office building last year, with renovations running more than $1 million.

Brazilians have led the Miami condo market resurgence, accounting for 9 percent of unit purchases among international buyers of Miami single-family homes and condos, according to the Miami Association of Realtors.

“The feeling in Brazil is certain aspects of their real estate and economy make U.S. real property a relative bargain,” said Richard Goldstein, of Bilzin Sumberg. “In other countries like Venezuela, the currency is not as much of a factor. Political instability is a factor; they want a safe haven for their money.”
Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. Information from: Daily Business Review, http://www.dailybusinessreview.com

 

 

 

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Lee and Collier counties added a quarter-million residents over the last decade

 

Data Release by news-press: Lee and Collier counties added a quarter-million residents over the last decade, a robust population increase that followed some of the most dramatic economic swings in Southwest Florida history.

In total, Lee grew more than 40 percent between 2000 and 2010, and now has a population of nearly 620,000. Collier jumped a more modest 28 percent.

Much of that growth likely took part during the first half of the decade, when pre-recession prognosticators envisioned a Lee County topping 670,000 people by this time.

Though Cape Coral remains the highest-populated municipality at about 154,000, Lee’s growth areas were primarily to the south and east of Interstate 75.

Cape Coral’s population growth of nearly 51 percent is healthy, though members of the industry thought the population might be as many as 10,000 people higher, said H. M., executive director of the Cape Coral Construction Industry Association.

The results keep Cape Coral among the state’s most populated cities and there are signs of a turning market, she said. “There’s movement,” she said. “We’re still cautiously optimistic.”

 

 

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Buyers ready to snatch bargains this spring

 

Buyers ready to snatch bargains this spring

WASHINGTON – March 23, 2011 – Bargain prices on housing combined with low interest rates below 5 percent may bring the real estate market its busiest spring season in years, economists say.

Distressed sales continue to put downward pressure on home prices, which may lure more buyers off the fence and ready to snag a deal during the typical prime-time buying season.

Some builders are ramping up discounts on new homes as well as boosting commissions to brokers to try to spark more transactions.

Sellers of existing-homes also are getting more competitive in pricing their homes.

“After three years of the housing downturn, people are becoming much more realistic in terms of valuing their homes,” says Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors®.

An improved job market with better income potential may also motivate more people to buy, says David Berson of the PMI Group. “Household formations are also very important,” Berson says. “Kids may have moved back in with their parents, or two people may have moved in together because of job concerns. Now they can move into their own place.”

While interest rates are sitting comfortably below 5 percent for now (30-year fixed rates averaged 4.76 percent last week), economists warn the attractive low rates won’t last long.

“Few think mortgage rates are going lower,” says Mark Zandi, Moody’s Analytics chief economist. “It’s more likely they will be 6 percent than 4 percent next spring. This lights a fire under buyers.”

Source: “Discounts expected in spring housing market,” The Wall Street Journal (March 22, 2011)

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