US rental homes: Daiwa House to invest 150b yen
Firm will develop leasing properties in Texas as Japan's population shrinks
[TOKYO] Daiwa House Industry Co, Japan's biggest homebuilder by market value, plans to invest 150 billion yen (S$1.9 billion) in US rental housing, three times more than it had aimed to allocate to overseas investments, to boost revenue.
Daiwa House will acquire and develop leasing properties in Texas and allocate the funds over the next three years, the Osaka-based company said yesterday. The homebuilder targets 50 billion yen of revenue in the US by the year ending March 2019, it said.
Japan's shrinking population has prompted the country's homebuilders such as Daiwa House to seek new revenue sources. Texas is the most that Daiwa House is investing overseas for rental housing and compares with the 50 billion yen that the company had announced for investments abroad in its mid-term plan in November.
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