Nearly $1 billion in FDI in Myanmar last fiscal year was in real estate:
“…foreign direct investment over the 2016-2017 financial year totaled USD6.6 billion, around USD748 million of which was ploughed into the real estate sector alone..”.
Land-grabbing by the military and well-connected businessmen has been going on in Myanmar for a long time, and it cannot be dismissed as a key motive behind the army’s “clearing operations” in Arakan