Kazakhstan - Investment funds to balance mounting prices for real estate
Released on = April 19, 2006, 1:07 am
Press Release Author = Property Horizons Ltd
Industry = Real Estate
Press Release Summary = Most emerging real estate market analysts only deal with the UK, USA, and conventional places in Europe. Here is a different view of a less well known but equally hot and active economy complete with an active real estate market.
Press Release Body = ASTANA. April 18, 2006. KAZINFORM. /Zauresh Balkenova/ Draft amendments to the law On investment funds foreseeing foundation of corporate realty investment funds has been introduced at today\'s governmental session on rental housing sector development.
In this world of uncertainties and changing situations, the ups and downs of real estate investor fortunes has behaved very much like the traditional \'Mexican Wave\' as loved at football crowds everywhere. The \'wave\' sweeps around the stadium, and as one sector stands up the other goes down.
Exactly the same happens in the real live business of real estate marketing. As one country\'s prices go up, the next one seems to go down, and this effect just seems to continue, the only difference being that the trend inevitably is always and finally upwards.
The UK, Spain, France, the USA, and the emerging Eastern European countries are no exception to this \'Wave\', and are forever in the spotlight.
But there are more countries in the world involved in real estate than just these few stalwarts, and many of then have strong and growing economies, and fast-rising real estate values.
One such country is Kazakhstan, the largest of the former Soviet republics in territory, excluding Russia itself, which possesses enormous fossil fuel reserves and plentiful supplies of other minerals and metals. The breakup of the Soviet Union on 1991, and with it the collapse of Kazakhstan\'s traditional market for its heavy industry resulted in the Mexican Wave swinging to the low side. From 1995 to 1997 however, the Mexican Wave was on the move again this time upwards, as government reform and privatization continued to move forward. With ambitious cooperation project with China to build oil pipe lines from the Caspian to the Chinese border, the Kazakhstan government has now started on a policy of encouraging and developing light industry as a buffer against the single economy of oil. as there are a number of ongoing disputes with several other nations regarding oil based issues.
However, pressures on the economy continues to grow, due to upward pressures on the currency from to massive oil-related foreign exchange inflows.
Not the most stable of situations, but in view of the relative strength of their economy, the real estate situation can not be totally disregarded. After all, look what has happened to former Soviet Republics to the West of the old USSR Empire.
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