MIAMI—Foreign investment into US commercial real estate continues in 2015. According to the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate's 2015 survey, over 90% of respondents plan to maintain or increase the size of their US portfolios in 2015—and the US was voted the most stable and secure country for investment, with the best opportunity for capital appreciation by a wide margin.

“As it periodically has been in the past, the United States is currently the target of much of the foreign investment in real estate globally,” says Thomas Arnold, AFIRE chairman and head of Americas real estate at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. “With a stable and transparent market and an economy that appears to be steadily improving without the fits and starts experienced in other regions, the US has become the first stop for foreign real estate investors. And with the continued creation of wealth in China, it is not surprising that they, along with other nationalities, are voting with their 'dollars.'”

Industry players say net lease properties are a beneficiary of the foreign investment trend. Jason Fox, head of global investments at W. P. Carey, a global net lease REIT, tells GlobeSt.com foreign investors still actively pursuing net-leased assets, either independently or through American partners and advisors despite the rising strength of the US dollar.