Using the Web and social media to sell real estate

I have just read an article published on the blog of Llenrock Group, a real estate advisory and investment banking firm that deals with major projects and I quote: “The robustness of the commercial real estate industry and its ability to recover from the economic recession relies on foreign investors buying US real estate.” So the experts are already rising flags calling people attention to the need of foreign currency to bail out commercial real estate projects.

International investors coming to rescue US commercial real estate

The article provides a complex explanation on how you can protect a foreign investor money from currency exchange fluctuations and differences in taxation and political scenarios. It looks to me that the complexity is a bit too much, because we very well know that a deal has to be evaluated on the base of the location and the people who manage it and it is very difficult to rely only on some high level general mathematical formula. Anyway the above quote is meaningful and if you want to read the original article you can find it here. They also tell you that not only foreign capital is going to be necessary to bail out many commercial properties, but the owners of US real estate will have to put up with very high discounts because international investors will have to protect themselves from the resk posed by the current economy situation in the US.

I still quote from the article: “Investors view the US to be more risky than many blue chip companies, and several foreign countries.” So it looks there are going to be really tough times for commercial real estate, while residential is more attractive and simple to deal with even on an international level.

Roberto Mazzoni

P.S. If you are an investor or a Realtor who deals or wants to deal in international real estate, write me or even send me a guest posting.