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The property market in Vietnam has seen an influx of Japanese capital recently, with many projects carried out under partnerships between the countries’ enterprises.

The foreign exchange market is still vulnerable to latent exogenous risks, especially crisis risks arising from emerging markets, said the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR).

Vietnam has seen a series of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in its property market in 2016, a trend expected to continue throughout the year.

Savills Vietnam, the largest property company in the country, forecasts that the real estate market will be on the upswing in 2016.

Coastal cities in Vietnam will soon welcome a number of new resorts as many projects have been launched since 2015.

Property prices are skyrocketing along HCM City's proposed metro lines.

Office real estate will continue to be attractive this year, both in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, which will attract more capital influxes once the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) takes effect

With 6.9 billion USD in revenue from wood and wood-based product exports in 2015, Vietnam has become the fourth biggest wood exporter in the world, following China, German and Italy.

Property brokers must pass examinations to get certificates to practise, according to Circular 11/2015/TT-BXD issued by the Ministry of Construction recently.

Vietnam's real estate market is expected to continue recovery this year after gaining good business results last year, with the market reaping benefits from favourable macro conditions, experts said.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh said the real estate market has been successfully restructured and more subsidised housing made available to the poor.

The new exchange rate mechanism will not make any remarkable impact on the Vietnamese real estate market, assured an expert from the CBRE Vietnam.

Amid the recovery of the real estate market, experts have rung early alarm bells about the risk of supply and demand imbalance by the recent boom in high-end housing projects.

Vietnam this year would remain among the top 15 recipients with remittances of roughly 12.5 billion USD from Vietnamese living overseas, a World Bank (WB) report says.

The revival of the housing market has had a positive impact on the prices of shares of property companies, according to the Vietinbank Securities Company.

The domestic real estate market continued its recovery in November, and conditions are expected to last into the New Year, experts said.

A national database of the real estate market will be developed in an effort to provide basic market indicators with greater accuracy and improve the market transparency.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal will have a positive impact on the domestic real estate market, while the property market has recovered in the third quarter, experts said.

Seventeen existing and new projects made a total of 9,550 apartments available in the real estate market of Ho Chi Minh City in the third quarter of this year, announced Savills Vietnam.

Although supply has recently surged, there is not likely to be a real estate bubble in Vietnam, said CBRE’s Operational Director Richard Leech at a press conference in Hanoi on September 29.