Episode 47: Real Estate investing trends in Suriname

In this week's episode, we head off to South America and talk to Omayra Bouterse, about real estate trends in Suriname. 

 

Omayra runs the only Black women owned real estate agency in Suriname; she and her partners opened their offices 4 years ago. 

She also hosted the first real estate seminar in Suriname and is teaching (at a university) the first real estate course in the country and she took time out to talk to us about:

 

• The challenges of the real estate industry in Suriname
• What it's like to operate in a market that has little or no regulation and the work she is doing with the government to regulate the industry
• How political events impact the currency in Suriname and how that has affected the real estate market 
• How land ownership laws affect foreigners looking to buy land in the country 
• The discovery of oil in Suriname and the opportunities that, that is expected to create in the long run

 

This is another inspirational episode, because the real estate industry in Suriname is very unique and like nothing we could ever imagine, but Omayra is one of the people shaping and building the industry. 

 

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