Arkansas Code
Subchapter 8 - Investments
§ 23-63-828. Real estate

An insurer may invest in real estate only if used for the purposes or acquired in the manner and within the limits as follows:
(1) The land and the buildings thereon in which it has its principal office and such other real estate as shall be requisite for its convenient accommodation in the transaction of its business. Except with the consent of the Insurance Commissioner, all the investments shall not aggregate more than ten percent (10%) of the insurer's assets;
(2) Real estate acquired in satisfaction of loans, mortgages, liens, judgments, decrees, or debts previously owing to the insurer in the course of business;
(3) Real estate acquired in part payment of the consideration on the sale of other real estate owned by it, if the transaction shall have effected a net reduction in the insurer's investment in real estate;
(4) Real estate acquired by gift or devise, or through merger, consolidation, or bulk reinsurance of another insurer under this code;
(5) The seller's interest in real property subject to an agreement of purchase or sale, but the sum invested in any parcel of real estate shall not exceed two-thirds (2/3) of the market value of the parcel;
(6) Real estate, or any interest therein acquired or held by purchase, lease, or otherwise, as an investment for the production of income, or acquired to be improved or developed for investment purposes pursuant to an existing program therefor. The insurer may hold, improve, develop, maintain, manage, lease, sell, and convey real estate acquired by it under this provision. An insurer shall not have invested at any one (1) time an amount exceeding ten percent (10%) of its assets in real estate under this subdivision (6), except with the commissioner's consent;
(7) Additional real estate, and equipment incidental to real estate, if necessary or convenient for the purpose of enhancing the sale or other value of real estate previously acquired or held by the insurer under subdivision (2), subdivision (3), subdivision (4), or subdivision (6) of this section. The real estate and equipment shall be included, together with the real estate for the enhancement of which it was acquired, for the purpose of applicable investment limits, and shall be subject to disposal at the same time and under the same conditions as apply to enhanced real estate under § 23-63-819;
(8) Investments made under this section may be effected by acquisition or by agreement to acquire, in the form of a guaranty, credit draw arrangement, or other like form; and
(9) Except with the commissioner's consent, all real estate owned by the insurer under this section, except as to seller's interest specified in subdivision (5) of this section, shall not at any one (1) time exceed twenty percent (20%) of the insurer's assets.

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