FIRPTA » Uncategorized http://www.firpta.com U.S. Real Estate Taxation, A Guide for Nonresident Investors Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:09:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Article about buying US homes http://www.firpta.com/article-about-buying-us-homes http://www.firpta.com/article-about-buying-us-homes#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:34:33 +0000 Phil Hodgen http://www.firpta.com/?p=169 There is continued interest in buying U.S. homes; this article is from India. Good common sense is offered, although the advice is a bit generic. The discussion of mortgage availability is generally accurate according to my experience.

Of course what they really need is some specifics about taxation. :-)

]]> http://www.firpta.com/article-about-buying-us-homes/feed 0 Doom and gloom (real estate department) http://www.firpta.com/doom-and-gloom-real-estate-department http://www.firpta.com/doom-and-gloom-real-estate-department#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:31:19 +0000 Phil Hodgen http://www.firpta.com/?p=148 Doom and gloom isn’t new. What caught my eye here was how the real estate company’s CEO saw US tax policy as a direct inhibitor of foreign inbound real estate investment. Go to number (2) in the points he raised.

Personally I think this is a bit myopic. Yes, tax policies matter. But has anything else in the financial market been happening since summer, 2007? Oh, hypothetically, a massive meltdown?

Investors that I work with are sitting on their wallets. They see asset prices decreasing, so there is no great rush to buy.

I think sane business decisions might have a lot to do with why this gentleman sees a sharp decrease in inbound (to the US) capital flows

UPDATE: the tax ruling the gentlemen was referencing is discussed in my post here.

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