U.S. real estate could see more foreign investment ahead

U.S. assets like real estate may be more attractive to foreign investors in the months ahead.

In contrast to much of the industrialized world’s easy money policy, the Federal Reserve chose to tighten slightly with the start of a rate hike cycle on Wednesday. The divergence in monetary policy is seen as a potential source of volatility in the coming year.

According to Mitch Roschelle, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, uncertainty in global currencies, stocks, and bonds could benefit hard assets like U.S. real estate.

“Whenever there's instability in a society or in the world, investors tend to rotate towards the non-trading asset,” he said. “They rotate to real estate as opposed to the trading asset.”

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