The real estate market attracted US$21.4 billion of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first seven months of the year, representing 48 percent of the total newly-registered capital, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

Of the total, investors poured US$13 billion into building luxury urban areas and buildings for office lease, nearly US$8.3 billion into tourism and hotels, and the rest for infrastructure in export processing and industrial zones.