This link Dominican Republic Commercial Real Estate talks about commercial real estate listings on the Dominican Republic. It outlines lots of informative details on government practices and laws governing commercial real estate and financial investments in the Dominican Republic. Includes some links to websites with government reports and legal sites with further guidelines for interested investors.
The link talks about a recent increase of US capital due to the slowing in the US financial markets causing investors to seek out international investments in order to locate investments that are providing a better ROI while property markets in the US are stagnated.
It could be that some countries are reaping benefits from the problems in the North American financial markets. It is probable that once the US market improves, conservative investors will "go local" and opt for lower returns in exchange for the safer domestic market, however, it is also probable that many of the risk taking investors will have gained some comfort level and will stay in these higher return, although riskier markets.
