For overseas Vietnamese considering investment in their homeland, two longstanding challenges have been access to reliable information and confidence in product quality. As Vietnam's urban landscape evolves with large-scale, internationally oriented developments, this dynamic is shifting. Vinhomes, with its expansive land bank and integrated ecosystems, has become a natural focal point for overseas Vietnamese investment.
Globally, remittances have long been a stable source of external finance for developing economies. According to World Bank estimates cited by the U.S. Federal Reserve, global remittance flows reached a record approximately US$818 billion in 2023, nearly four times the combined official development assistance provided by OECD countries. Increasingly, these funds are directed toward long-term asset accumulation, with real estate a preferred choice for financially established households. Vietnam exemplifies this trend, with total remittances reaching about US$16 billion in 2024, keeping the country among the world's top ten recipients. Notably, nearly US$8 billion in remittance capital flowed into Vietnam's real estate market in the first nine months of 2025 alone, signaling growing confidence among overseas Vietnamese.
Unlike short-term speculative capital, overseas Vietnamese buyers view property as a means of preserving and building wealth over the long term. This explains why large-scale urban developments with coherent master planning, transparent legal frameworks, and proven operational capabilities are increasingly prioritized. Recent amendments to Vietnam's Land Law and Law on Real Estate Business, effective 2024, have expanded the rights of overseas Vietnamese. Those with Vietnamese citizenship enjoy land-related rights equivalent to domestic citizens, while those without citizenship have gained a more accessible legal pathway to home ownership. This policy shift addresses substantial unmet demand, with potential housing demand among overseas Vietnamese estimated at over three million homes.
Vinhomes has become a key destination for these investors. Over nearly two decades, beginning with developments such as Royal City, Times City, and Vinhomes Riverside, the company has helped introduce a model of integrated urban living in Vietnam, bringing homes, education, healthcare, retail, green mobility, and essential services together. Vinhomes currently holds a land bank of approximately 29,500 hectares, about two-thirds of Singapore's total land area, making it the country's largest developer by land holdings. It has brought 32 projects into operation, supporting hundreds of thousands of residents. In 2025, Vinhomes recorded VND205.3 trillion in contracted sales, up 98% year on year, and introduced four new mega-urban developments: Vinhomes Wonder City in Hanoi, Vinhomes Golden City in Hai Phong, Vinhomes Green Paradise in Can Gio, Ho Chi Minh City, and Vinhomes Green City in Long An.
The company's approach has earned recognition beyond Vietnam, including the "Developer of the Year Southeast Asia 2025" at the Dot Property Southeast Asia Awards. This combination of scale, brand credibility, and transparency is particularly relevant to the global Vietnamese community. At Vinhomes Royal Island in Vu Yen, Hai Phong, the project attracted nearly 10,000 visitors and close to 2,000 purchase bookings within just over a month of launch, with a significant proportion of prospective buyers being overseas Vietnamese from Germany, Poland, and other European countries. The project was among the first to publicly list property prices on the Vinhomes Market platform, enabling buyers worldwide to access product information, pricing, and sales policies remotely. This directly addresses the persistent obstacle of obtaining reliable information without being physically present in Vietnam.
At Vinhomes Hai Van Bay in Da Nang, overseas Vietnamese families have acquired two different property types: one for rental income while they remain abroad, and another, such as a villa, for their eventual return. Behind these developments is the broader Vingroup ecosystem, which integrates education through Vinschool and VinUni, healthcare through Vinmec, retail through Vincom Retail, hospitality through Vinpearl and VinWonders, and green mobility through VinFast and Green SM. The significance lies in how these services work together, allowing a Vinhomes development to function as a complete living environment with convenience and service standards expected of international cities. For overseas Vietnamese accustomed to high-quality urban environments abroad, this continuity of experience is an important consideration.
The convergence of more open policies, substantial remittance flows, and a leading developer like Vinhomes is creating a reinforcing cycle. Greater confidence encourages more overseas Vietnamese capital to enter the domestic property market, while the scale and credibility of large developments give investors confidence that their capital is placed in an environment they can understand and ultimately return to. As Vietnam's cities continue to evolve, the opportunity moves in both directions: capital can flow back before people do, and the developments they invest in can become the places to which they eventually return. Vinhomes is not simply participating in this flow; its urban developments are giving it a tangible destination, where investment, quality of life, and the prospect of returning to Vietnam increasingly converge.
