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Cross-Border

A transaction is defined as "cross-border" if the buyer or major capital partner is not headquartered in the same country where the property is located. The buyer’s identity or country of origin is known for well over 90% of total volume. If the country of origin is not known, the buyer is assumed to be domestic. An increasing number of firms have subsidiaries accessing capital in multiple countries so a firm may have two headquarters locations for the purposes of this analysis. For example, ING Group is assumed to be based in the Netherlands for deals outside of the US while their acquisitions in the US are assumed to be made via its US headquartered subsidiary, ING Clarion. Deutsch Bank (DB Real Estate) and its RREEF unit are treated in a similar manner. For the purposes of this cross-border analysis, continental regions generally follow conventional definitions for continents except that the Middle East is treated as a separate continent and Hong Kong is treated as a separate country from China.


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