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Alan King is a Realtor® at National Realty of Brevard Inc. Melbourne Office.
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Offshore Investors Target US Commercial Real Estate
Posted by Alan King on
Thursday, July 14th, 2011 at 4:26am.
According to a
survey recently published in the Financial Times of London, foreign investors
spent $49 billion on US commercial real estate in the second quarter of this
year. This is an increase of almost 56% over the second quarter of 2010. The
survey sites several factors for the increase including more easily obtained
financing and more appealing rental yields. Rental yields are calculated as the
income an owner receives as a percentage of the property’s purchase price. The
average yields on US
office, industrial, retail and hotel sites remained over 6% during the quarter
contrasted against an average yield of 3.3% for ten year treasury securities
for the same time period.
The survey further states the global investment community is…