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The policy innovations of the Government to remove difficulties for the economy are expected to open up opportunities and incentives for businesses operating in many different fields, including real estate. These are important support policies coming just in time to create a big push for the real estate market and other related businesses to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnam has for the first time been named a “Semi-Transparent” market in the 2020 Global Real Estate Transparency Index (GRETI) by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) thanks to the progress in its largest markets, HCM City and Ha Noi. In this year’s biennial GRETI, Vietnam is ranked in 56th position.

As Vietnam is attracting high-quality foreign inflows, domestic firms now have an even greater opportunity to draw technology transfer to improve added value in its manufacturing industry.

Located in Dong Nam Economic Zone, a key economic centre of the central province of Nghe An, WHA Industrial Zone 1 – Nghe An is a spotlight among foreign investors, especially financiers and enterprises hailing from South Korea.

Viet Nam’s index of industrial production recorded a year-on-year rise of 2.8% in the first six months of 2020, according to the General Statistics Office.

The domestic real estate market is hoped to have growth in the fourth quarter of this year and before the Lunar New Year 2021 if, by this year-end, the domestic economy is restored to levels from before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to insiders.

Nearly US$6 billion in foreign direct investment was poured into Viet Nam’s industrial parks (IPs), processing zones and economic zones (Ezs) in the first half of the year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

Ministry of Construction data shows that some 80 per cent of developers stopped sales or even temporarily halted operations during the first quarter while the rest had modest operations going.