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Buying a property in Mongolia, if you are an expat, is a fairly easy task.Obviously come and check the propertyMake a contract with the real estate developer/ owner of the property.Pay the requested amount.Submit the documents to the Immovable Property Office.Receive the ownership certificate.Congratulations, you are a proud owner of a property in Mongolia.How about Land?As a foreigner you are not eligible to purchase land.Generally there are three ways to own a plot of land:1.Land ownership-Every Mongolian is eligible to receive land for free. If you live in capital it is 0.07 ha of land, 0.35 ha in the provincial capital, 0.5 ha in village (Ulziinaran Nergui thanx ) Only a Mongolian citizen can own land. All the other land is property of Mongolian state.2. Lease the land-Most property developers have a construction lease of the land. Foreigners not allowed3. Usage of land-is allowed. A foreigner, for example, can lease a plot of land for agriculture purposes. Same with mining concessions. But it is even more complicated.Buying property in MongoliaFAQs

That South China Morning Post news item is making mountains out of molehills.The simplest answer is that leases for diplomatic missions in any country tend to be exceptions to the ordinary framework.It’s like royal marriages and royal divorces — they are unique on their own facts, as the lawyer’s common refrain goes.The 999-year land lease type isn’t exactly as “rare” that the newspaper describes it.My own home in Hong Kong also came with a 999-year-long lease. My wife and I are 58 years old already and don’t really care if we’ll see the end of the lease.But mine is an ordinary home, so the general framework kicks into play and it’s going to last the remainder of 75 years or up to 2047 — when probably nothing will happen, or maybe we’ll be too senile and insane to care anyway.The real anomaly is this:—What should be more surprising was that the USCG in Hong Kong started off in the 1950s with such a short lease (75 years).Let’s have some ‘dimension’:—The old U.S. Embassy in London is the classic example of diplomatic missions getting a “different” treatment.(The USA is always a nice source of ‘classic’ examples because the USA likes to be ‘exceptional’ in many things in many overseas places or matters.)The old embassy at Grosvenor Square, London, never even had a lease to begin with. It simply took possession of the land and premises in 1950 from the Duke of Westminster, who permitted the occupation since 1941/42 as a “wartime memorial donation” to the USA.The USA paid a symbolic (peppercorn) rent to the Duke — a thing that wouldn’t have needed if it were a true donation, which means it wasn’t a donation.British newspapers this year or in 2017 ‘revealed’ that the USA sold the ‘lease’ of the Grosvenor Square embassy site to the Qatari royal family for US$431 million (well under the appraised valuation of US$600 million).The USA offered to buy the Grosvenor Square site outright. Somewhat surrealistically, the Duke’s trustee responded by requesting the return of the Duke’s ancestral lands confiscated after the American Revolutionary War — which was the city of Miami. Clearly that deal was a non-starter.Those three facts alone demonstrate something “different” was going on in terms of UK land law — because leaseholders cannot sell leases; only the landowner can, and he’s the Duke of Westminster, who “donated” the site to the USA. Get my meaning?To the average UK land lawyer — so what? It’s always been different with diplomatic missions for centuries. Have you been living under a rock?No, the 999-year lease for a U.S. consular/diplomatic mission in Hong Kong is unexceptional. All leases in Hong Kong are registrable anyway — anybody can do the legwork to obtain the documents.The SCMP is just being brash and sensationalising on a non-event.

Thanks for the request to answer! I’ll tell you, I personally wouldn’t go to a physical Amazon store under too many situations.But, perhaps more to the point, what benefit would an Amazon physical location serve?Part of what makes Amazon such a fabulous company is that their logistics platform eliminates the immensely high overhead of physical locations. Think about it. Construction fees, utility fees, land-lease fees, personnel fees, inventory storage transportation fees… all of these things cost money, and Amazon is nearly immune to it.Far easier to pay for ~70 fulfillment centers than hundreds (if not thousands) of brick and mortar stores. Not only that, Piper Jeffries estimates that these 70 FCs actually put Amazon within 20 miles of 31% of the population… and within 20 miles of 65% of the same-day shipping requesters.That’s an outstanding advantage… and no amount of delicious coffee will counteract that. :)I could be wrong, but I would argue strongly that it would not be in Amazon’s best interest to do what you’re proposing they will inevitably do.