The Authority
Cross-Border Real Estate Deserves.

What GCRID Is

The Global Coalition for Real Estate, Investment & Development is a cross-border real estate intelligence platform and professional network. We publish practitioner-level intelligence on every major international real estate corridor into the United States — and we connect the attorneys, agents, lenders, developers, and policymakers who work in these markets with each other and with the capital that moves through them.

GCRID is not a listing service. It is not a general real estate news aggregator. It is a platform purpose-built for the professional who operates at the intersection of international capital and U.S. real estate — and who needs to understand FIRPTA withholding, FinCEN GTOs, estate tax treaty status, capital controls, and currency dynamics as fluently as they understand cap rates and square footage.

The CIPS designation exists because international real estate demands specialized knowledge. GCRID exists because that specialized knowledge needed a permanent home — a resource that grows, updates, and deepens as the markets move.

The Founder

Arthur Simpson, Esq.

Founder & Managing Director, GCRID · Attorney · CIPS Designee

Arthur Simpson is a Florida Bar attorney and Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) who has spent his career at the intersection of real estate law and cross-border capital flows. He founded GCRID after observing a consistent gap in the professional market: practitioners working international real estate transactions had sophisticated clients — Colombian HNW buyers, UAE family offices, Argentine capital flight investors, Nigerian diaspora professionals — and no single authoritative platform that gave them the intelligence and legal framework to serve those clients at the level the transactions demanded.

Arthur practices real estate law, estate planning, and elder law at Truestead Law, where his international real estate practice specifically serves foreign nationals purchasing U.S. real property — covering FIRPTA compliance, estate tax structuring, entity formation, and cross-border closing coordination for buyers from more than 20 countries. His legal practice is the operational backbone that gives GCRID's intelligence its practitioner-level specificity: every framework we publish, an attorney has used in a real transaction.

Arthur is a member of the Florida Bar and holds the CIPS designation from the National Association of REALTORS® — the professional credential specifically designed for real estate practitioners who serve international buyers and sellers. He is based in Florida, the #1 destination for international real estate buyers in the United States.

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Who We Serve

GCRID's intelligence is built for anyone whose professional work intersects with international real estate capital — at any point in the transaction chain or policy conversation.

What We Believe

• Intelligence Practitioners who work international real estate deserve intelligence at the same level of specificity that their clients' transactions demand. "Foreign buyers are active" is not intelligence. The FIRPTA withholding rate, the estate tax treaty status, and the FinCEN GTO threshold are intelligence.
• Specificity Every corridor is different. The Colombian buyer in Miami, the Korean buyer near UCLA, and the Argentine buyer in Brickell have different legal situations, different capital flows, different motivations, and different compliance requirements. One-size-fits-all international real estate advice serves no one well.
• Legal Grounding The most consequential decisions in international real estate are legal decisions — entity structure, FIRPTA timing, estate tax exposure. GCRID's intelligence is grounded in legal practice, not just market observation. We publish frameworks that practitioners can actually use in transactions.
• Network Capital moves through relationships. The CIPS network, the bilateral attorney community, the international developer ecosystem — these are the channels through which cross-border real estate deals get done. GCRID exists to strengthen and connect this network.
• Access The best intelligence in the world serves no one if it's locked behind a paywall that keeps out exactly the practitioners who need it most. GCRID's core intelligence — corridors, legal reference library, daily briefs — is free. The network is how we sustain it.