{"id":2033,"date":"2011-11-09T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T04:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:05:14","slug":"foreign-ownership-of-rural-land-is-restricted-or-even-prohibited-in-many-other-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/foreign-ownership-of-rural-land-is-restricted-or-even-prohibited-in-many-other-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign ownership of rural land is restricted or even prohibited, in many other countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Duff has included some\u00a0interesting facts in\u00a0a \u00a0<a title=\"Weekly Times article on foreign investment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklytimesnow.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weekly Times\u00a0article on foreign investment<\/a>.\u00a0 He\u00a0mentions that foreign ownership of rural land is regulated in many other countries.\u00a0\u00a0Other countries, presumably most of them, require that all rural land owned by foreigners is registered with the federal government (eg USA).\u00a0 Some countries restrict the amount of land that can be purchased, in other countries\u00a0 overseas purchases over a certain (often small) size\u00a0must be approved (NZ), while in some regions foreign ownership of rural land is prohibited outright (China, the Philippines, and some US states).<\/p>\n<p>It would be great to have a comprehensive list of what the government requirements are on purchasing land in all countries.\u00a0 For example what are the laws regarding foreign ownership of rural land in Britain, and Eastern and Western Europe?\u00a0 In the Middle East?\u00a0 In India, Indonesia, and all the Asian countries in-between?\u00a0 These are all regions where private citizens, companies\u00a0and governments have bought up tracts of Australian food producing land.\u00a0 And presumably all if not most of these countries, at least keep detailed and current\u00a0records of land owned by non-citizens.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0suspect a comprehensive list of foreign ownership laws in relation to rural land, in other countries,\u00a0would show Australia is one of the least restricted on the planet.\u00a0 Why do we give it away?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Duff has included some\u00a0interesting facts in\u00a0a \u00a0Weekly Times\u00a0article on foreign investment.\u00a0 He\u00a0mentions that foreign ownership of rural land is regulated in many other countries.\u00a0\u00a0Other countries, presumably most of them, require that all rural land owned by foreigners is registered with the federal government (eg USA).\u00a0 Some countries restrict the amount of land that can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,10],"tags":[178,220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}