After the financial crisis of 1997, the top priority of Korean economy was to restructure corporations and financial institutions. The stabilization of the prices of business properties was necessary conditions for the successful implementation of res...
After the financial crisis of 1997, the top priority of Korean economy was to restructure corporations and financial institutions. The stabilization of the prices of business properties was necessary conditions for the successful implementation of restructuring policies. Even though many measures to securitize the real estate assets for the improvement of financial structure was adopted, the ROK(Republic of Korea) failed to fully develop the markets for "General REITs".
The revised law that prescribes the domestic real estate indirect investment market act reinforced the protection of the investors and market management transparency by introducing nominal paper company, consignment REITs. The measures to reduce the corporate taxes is predicted to help make the real estate market funds move to REITs by the way of consignment REITs. In addition, the revised law(July in 2007) will help to ease the constraints and restraints in the operations.
First, for the full development of the real estate indirect investment market, the administrative supports and tax system iprovement should be given the top priority. Without the tax support from the government, the future of real estate investment system is out of the question. From the experiences of the United States of America, we know that The development of US REITs has been accelerated by the reforms in the tax system. Based on this fact, we should provide sufficient amount of tax reduction such as exemption of the corporate taxes in General REITs.
Second, fund raising in the real estate investment company needs to be encouraged. More fund should be secured by the participation from the individual investors and institutional investors,
Third, to make sure that the REITs funds have enough transparency in its operations, many innovative ideas to protect the investors should be introduced.
Fourth, we need some measures to help boost the profitability in the real estate investment company, which is the key success factor in REITs. By allowing them to engage in the business of hotel, hospital, golf area, one-room apartment in downtown, leased house, commercial building, office house, and remodeling, we need to help the real estate investment companies to make profits and to secure comparative edge sin each specialized area..
Fifth, much investment is needed in human capitals to increase the supply and raise the quality of specialized staff sin the real estate investment, its consulting firms, and asset management company.
Sixth, information transparency should be pursued through the network. Information about the every aspects of REITs- such as sales and lease price of real estates, vacancy rates, reduction percent of real estate capitalization, profit rates of investment and lease-should be collected and made public.
Seventh, distorted perception on the investment in the real estate of considering it as speculation need to be changed somehow.
Concerted efforts are needed among scholars, public officers and business circles to make the REITs one of the financial vehicles in the real estate market which is the key axis of the economy.