Japanese investors highly appreciate Vietnamese property market
Representatives from around 180 Japanese businesses and investors on April 1 attended a Tokyo workshop on Vietnamese real estate, during which many of them highly appreciated the potential of Vietnam’s property market.
Tokyo (VNA) – Representatives from around 180 Japanese businesses and investorson April 1 attended a Tokyo workshop on Vietnamese real estate, during whichmany of them highly appreciated the potential of Vietnam’s property market.
The event was organised by Vinhomes - the largest commercialreal estate developer in Vietnam - in collaboration with the Vietnam Groove RealEstate Business Investment JSC, with the aim of giving Japanese investors anoverview of the Vietnamese real estate market.
Counsellor Tran Thi Thu Thin at the Vietnamese Embassy inJapan affirmed that the Vietnamese Government in general and the embassy inparticular will always accompany and create favourable conditions for Japanese enterprisesto make successful, sustainable and long-term investment in Vietnam, thus contributingto bringing the two countries’ relations to a new height.
Within the framework of the workshop, presentations anddiscussions were held to introduce investment potential and opportunities in Vietnam's propertymarket, and to answer Japanese investors’ questions on the process andprocedures for investment in real estate in the Southeast Asian nation.
In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)'s resident correspondentsin Tokyo, Nobuaki Higashi, head of the Overseas Business Department of NomuraReal Estate Development, said that his company appreciated the Vietnamese propertymarket's potential, as the country achieved a high economic growth, at around 8.2% last year,and is in the golden population period.
Sharing the same view, Shin Aoki, an official from Japan’s UrbanRenaissance Agency (UR), expressed his belief that there are more and more Japanesefirms investing in Vietnam.
The UR is studying to cooperate with Vietnamese businesses toinvest in apartments and housing in the coming time, and in townhouses andhotels in the future, he added./.
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An overview of the workshop. (Photo: VNA) 
