Cross Border Real Estate Practice, 2nd Edition

In a cross-border transaction, you will be guiding your client through unfamiliar waters to ensure they reach their destination safely. Now, in its updated Second Edition, this comprehensive book covers the areas that anyone conducting cross-border real estate transactions or operating a cross-border real estate practice needs to know.

From the author's extensive experience in this area, the book discusses the preponderance of issues that are most important. Included is practical advice about selecting a property for investment, conducting due diligence, learning about and understanding cross-cultural differences, differences in language and challenges of translation, difference in legal procedures and practices, and negotiating cross-border transactions. Then, cross-border tax issues are discussed, along with some of the different types of agreements that are negotiated and drafted for cross-border real estate transactions. Finally, this book covers the closing of a transaction and registration of title to property.

This book includes a CDROM that contains digital copies of the appendices which range from a sample construction agreement to a sample closing checklist, and more! This book is an essential resource for anyone who deals with international real estate.