{"id":12152,"date":"2014-12-09T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=12152"},"modified":"2014-12-09T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T17:52:07","slug":"panama-reit-industry-aims-for-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/panama-reit-industry-aims-for-takeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama REIT Industry Aims for Takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/juan-martans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12153\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/juan-martans.jpg\" alt=\"juan martans\" width=\"553\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/juan-martans.jpg 553w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/juan-martans-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Juan Manuel Martans, superintendent of Panama&#8217;s securities regulator <\/em><span class=\"wsj-article-credit\"><em> Kris Hudson\/The Wall Street Journal<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is the third and final story Kris wrote for the WSJ about how we will see the first publicly traded REITS here next year and how the sector will face challenges.<\/p>\n<p>PANAMA CITY, Panama\u2014Panamanian authorities want to open the country\u2019s small but burgeoning commercial real-estate industry to more outside investors, and they are banking on real-estate investment trusts as the way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Panama anticipates welcoming its first publicly traded REITs next year. The government has been putting the necessary legislation and regulations in place over the past two years to provide much-needed liquidity to the Panamanian real-estate market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very dynamic real-estate market, but unfortunately it is in the hands of a few investors,\u201d said Marielena Garcia Maritano, a senior vice president of investment banking at Panama\u2019s MMG Bank Corp. and president of the Panamanian Chamber of Managers of Mutual Funds and Pension Funds who helped guide the REIT legislation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/panamas-reit-industry-aims-for-takeoff-1417546052\" target=\"_blank\">Read the entire article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Manuel Martans, superintendent of Panama&#8217;s securities regulator Kris Hudson\/The Wall Street Journal This is the third 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