The New Investor Forum

The Dollar ‘cheap’ punishment heavily on real estate investment since the mid-year 2008, this trend could reverse in the short term if the quote across the barrier of 4.00 last year’s Midway when the dollar stabilized in the 3 retail investor started to have the perception that he had to pay the price for each unit of hard currency was ‘cheap’ and therefore flipped their efforts since then to buy dollars, retiring part of the investment property. From May 2008 until October of that year kept the quote below 3.10, and in August 2008 during the Fourth Annual Workshop on property values from Reporte Inmobiliario be alert of this fact by presenting a slogan ‘DOLLAR OR BRICK ‘ what I wanted to show during the seminar was the shift from retail investors to the American currency, a fact that began to discern in the statistics of the construction and demand for property and ending in 2008. Well, although today has not been that long would seem that this reality could change, with the dollar approaching 4 and strong likelihood that perforate this barrier according analysts predict more reliable and economic reality that all live day by day. Our perception is that if ultimately ends the quote topping 4 in the short term, the investor would follow the ‘sensation’ of cheap dollar, increasing the likelihood that the housing sector and the construction will invigorate, attracting new investors to enter in real estate development from the well and the cost, besides attracted by lower costs in dollars that is showing the construction since September 2008 (-9.75 ) is also likely that those who have not taken the decision to purchase in recent months, and devoted almost start to accumulate dollars for properties to buy and with greater confidence. Because these elements could say that if the dollar continues to climb, perhaps the slogan which had 7 months ago validity ‘Dolar or Brick’, it ceases to have effect and certainly the activity will grow. …. until the next round ‘Source: Reporte Inmobiliario.