Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment Attraction in Vietnam Real Estate in the Pandemic Condition

Abstract

The economy of Vietnam is a socialist-oriented emerging market that heavily depends on agriculture, tourism, raw material exports, and foreign direct investment. Vietnam is industrializing and modernizing from a low starting point with weak and small economic resources. This is one of the huge obstacles to the development of Vietnam’s economy. Therefore, mobilizing and leveraging foreign direct investment are very important. In the COVID-19 pandemic, many large international corporations and enterprises are looking for investment opportunities to diversify their supply chains and limit their overdependence on the Chinese market. Vietnam has emerged as one of the brightest candidates for this capital flow due to its success in epidemic prevention. While foreign direct investment has been declining globally, foreign direct investment in Vietnam has rebounded in the second quarter of 2020 and has been on an upward trend. The real estate market remained an active segment in the third quarter of 2020. This article uses comparison, logical and statistical analysis methods to study foreign direct investment in real estate in Vietnam. The contribution analyzes the factors that influenced the desire of foreign investors to invest in the Vietnamese real estate market, based on publicly available data sources of the Foreign Investment Agency, Vietnam Ministry of Planning and Investment; and the General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Solutions at the state level to stimulate investment in Vietnam are proposed.