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Factoid of the Day Friday, March 12, 2010
At the present time, foreign investors account for just 10% of U.S. commercial real estate purchases, according to Dan Fasulo, managing director of Real Capital Analytics. The primary reason for the low level of activity is the U.S. requires (Foreign Investment Real Estate Property Tax of 1980) foreign investors to pay as much as a 55% tax on capital gains from the sale of U.S. real estate, REITs and real estate operating companies, according to CNNMoney.com. Such a tax does not exist in the UK. Over half of the capital flowing into its commercial real estate comes from foreigners. Joseph Crowley, a congressman from New York, introduced a bill (Real Estate Revitalization Act of 2010) in January that, if passed, would eliminate some of the current tax burden.

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