tailieunhanh - Working Papers in Real Estate & Planning 03/11

Internationally, it describes how we must work more intensively with the European Union and through our bilateral relationships with countries all around the world to shape an international environment that supports openness. It sets out how Governments can collaborate to manage new global challenges such as climate change, food security, natural resource pressures and the impact of new technologies. The UK can have particular impact here because, although the world is becoming more multilateral with a growing number of more powerful players, bilateral relations between countries remain as important as ever, and Britain’s strong bilateral relationships underpin our economy, our trade and investment success and our wider influence in. | X HENLEY WiW UNIVERSITY OF READING Real Estate Planning Working Papers in Real Estate Planning 03 11 The copyright of each Working Paper remains with the author. If you wish to quote from or cite any Paper please contact the appropriate author. In some cases a more recent version of the paper may have been published elsewhere. Understanding the Barriers to Real Estate Investment in Developing Economies Professor Andrew Baum and Dr Claudia Murray School of Real Estate and Planning Henley Business School University of Reading United Kingdom Abstract Baum 2008a related the number of real estate funds investing in developing economies to simple economic and demographic variables and showed that while the popularity of markets was explained by population and GDP per capita some countries receive more or less investment than the model predicted. Why is this In this paper we undertake a literature review to identify the barriers which inhibit international real estate investment. We test our initial findings by questioning property investment professionals through semi-structured interviews. By doing this we were able to verify our list of barriers identify those barriers which are most likely to affect real estate investors and to indicate whether there are any real estate-specific variables that create barriers which have not received any academic attention. We show that distortions in international capital flows may be explained by a combination of these formal and informal barriers.