Obelisk International
Obelisk International is a private investment company specialising in UK land, and investments in Brazil, with offices in Spain, Brazil and the UK. The company’s investments in Brazil are property-based and include social housing within the Minha Casa Minha Vida programme. All investments are located in north east Brazil within the state of Rio Grande do Norte, whose capital is Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. The company also offers the purchase of urban land sites in the UK.
History[edit]
Obelisk International was founded in 2006 as a company dealing in investments, particularly in real estate, in emerging markets around the world. In the late ’00s, business activity became focused on Brazil, one of the four BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) forecast by Goldman Sachs to become the world’s largest economies.[1]
In late 2009, Obelisk International joined the Brazilian government’s social housing programme, known as Minha Casa Minha Vida (My House, My Life), which aims to build 3 million residential properties in Brazil by the end of 2014. The first phase, completed at the end of 2010, had a budget of R$34 billion to build 1 million low-cost homes.[2] The second phase, launched in March 2010, aims to build a further 2 million homes.[3]
The programme was intended to substantially reduce the housing deficit among low-income Brazilians, particularly among those earning up to three times the minimum wage (R$545).[4]
In 2009 Obelisk offered an off-plan investment in Tabatinga, south of Natal. After receiving about 6 million reals of investors' money they bought a plot of land and then abandoned the project and the investors.
In 2014 they shut down the company and the website and never contacted the investors again, leaving them to pick up the pieces.
They refuse to provide any proof that they actually invested in the minha casa minha vida project. 
References[edit]
- ↑ Goldman Sachs,Building Better Global Economic BRIC, November 2001
- ↑ Reuters Government program boosts Brazil housing market, June 25, 2010
- ↑ World Bank Brazil Announces Phase Two of Growth Acceleration Program March 30, 2010
- ↑ Bloomberg Brazil Minimum Wage Rise, Feb 24 2011
External links[edit]
- Obelisk International[dead link]
- Absolute Guide Series
- PAC 2, Brazilian Government (Portuguese only)
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