(Reuters) – The United States will remain the top choice of most global commercial real estate investors in 2012, but the country has lost ground to Brazil which ranked No. 2 this year, according to a survey released Sunday.
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While the United States offers a selection of the most stable and safest in the commercial real estate loans, says investors increased rental growth and employment and foreign investment tax repeal in 1980, will have a strong influence their investment decisions, according to an annual survey of the Association 20 ° to foreign investors in real estate members (fire).
For years, investors in commercial real property in the United States gateway cities like New York, Washington, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles, which pushed prices up and down to focus on results.
While commercial real estate in Brazil, with the bubble economy and a safer environment for investment, has the world in a warm place for investors. Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, jumped to the fourth best city for real estate investment dollars in 2012, from 26 years ago parking.
United States is still highly desirable and two behind England in the early stages of recovery of cross-border investment in 2011, according to Capital Analytics real numbers.
“The negative does not promise a lot of capital gains, because the most important market is full price,” said Chief Executive Officer James Fetgatter fire. “With the way the U.S. Brazil is not replaced, at least not in the future Brazil is now a safer place to invest and a place where you can get capital growth and good results as ..”
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