EconDefense
IND-32 / Property, construction and housing

Lease overseas non-family-housing structures and associated land

Acquire foreign real estate by lease for military purposes without turning every overseas presence need into land ownership.

Authority / instrument · IND-32

Overseas property

Property, construction and housing

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of military department

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Does not override host-nation sovereignty

Recorded executor

USACE district real-estate/construction offices; NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands; AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates

Continue to actor →

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedO&M or construction appropriations authorized; yearly rent paid from that year’s funds. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProcess sourcedUSACE publishes an overseas lease template and a 2026 real-estate service description explicitly tied to § 2675. Program check: 2026-10-04; see each route for intake status.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

Possible toolIND-32 · Property & leases

Authority holder: Secretary of military department

Property & leases

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.

Program process and intake

Checked 2026-10-04 · process documented. Program evidence is separate from legal authority, available funds and transaction approval.

USACE publishes an overseas lease template and a 2026 real-estate service description explicitly tied to § 2675.

Overseas non-housing real-property leases

Who this route serves
Government customers and eligible foreign property lessors
Administering office / routing lead
Military department real-estate authority; USACE district with the relevant warrant and geographic remit
Direct implementation

The 2026 district service guide expressly identifies 10 USC 2675. The inaccessible Europe template is retained only as historical indexed corroboration.

What this evidence label means
Published government service

The 2026 district guide identifies § 2675 real-estate warrant authority.

Status reference date: 2026-10-04 · research checked 2026-10-04

USACE Middle East District Products and Services Guide 2026 · Section 5, Real Estate Office: 10 USC 2675 warrants and reimbursable servicesofficial office/process guide · Evidence record

Program eligibility

  • The district guide identifies 10 USC 2675 warrant authority for acquiring real-estate interests; the individual requirement, warrant and host-country legal conditions must be verified.

    USACE Middle East District Products and Services Guide 2026 · Section 5, Real Estate Office: 10 USC 2675 warrants and reimbursable servicesofficial office/process guide · Evidence record

Steps and preparation

Funding, limits and authority relationship

Funding and financial terms

Exclusions and limits

Authority relationship source

USACE Middle East District Products and Services Guide 2026 · Section 5, Real Estate Office: 10 USC 2675 warrants and reimbursable servicesofficial office/process guide · Evidence record

USACE Middle East District real-estate services →

official office discovery: Request geographic and project-specific real-estate guidance; no standing call for property offers. The 2026 service guide is indexed but direct PDF access is restricted.

Source access and verification notes
  • 10 U.S.C. § 2675 · 2024 edition (GovInfo) · 10 U.S.C. § 2675statute · Evidence record

    Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.

  • USACE Europe District Overseas Lease Template · Opening authority clause, 10 USC 2675; property description and Exhibit Aofficial contract template · Evidence record

    Historical indexed template, not current intake. Main audit returned HTTP 404; independent recheck returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04. Current official office discovery: https://www.nau.usace.army.mil/Real-Estate/. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 404 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications.

  • USACE Middle East District Products and Services Guide 2026 · Section 5, Real Estate Office: 10 USC 2675 warrants and reimbursable servicesofficial office/process guide · Evidence record

    Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.

Research scope and sources checked

Read indexed 2026 Middle East District real-estate section and Europe lease-template opening; PDFs returned direct-fetch403.

What remains unverified

  • No active property requirement, chosen lessor or current warrant for a named individual verified; host-country rights and exact project delegation remain transaction-specific.
  • Europe overseas-template URL returned 404 in the main access audit and 403 in an independent recheck; it is not a working application endpoint.

A dated source check is not continuing monitoring. Recheck the linked official notice before preparing a submission. Browse program research →

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Military-purpose structure/associated property
  • Real-estate review and applicable host-nation agreements
  • Notice requirements where triggered

Limits & exclusions

  • Generally maximum 10 years; Korea 15 years
  • Military family housing uses different authority
  • Does not override host-nation sovereignty

Funding conditions

  • O&M or construction appropriations authorized; yearly rent paid from that year’s funds.

Read the funding and execution guide

Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Installation commander and Service facilities/real-estate staff
  • Service installation secretariat / ASD(EI&E) policy

Resources

  • Military Department installation budgets / project sponsor

Approval

  • Secretary concerned or properly delegated real-estate/construction official

Execution

  • USACE district real-estate/construction offices
  • NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands
  • AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates

Partners & review

  • Landowners / developers / local governments
  • Environmental regulators and real-estate counsel

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.

Actor and execution-role sources

What this research establishes

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedO&M or construction appropriations authorized; yearly rent paid from that year’s funds. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProcess sourcedUSACE publishes an overseas lease template and a 2026 real-estate service description explicitly tied to § 2675. Program check: 2026-10-04; see each route for intake status.

Confidence: High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.

Currentness: 2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.

Review scope: Original research target October 2, 2026; no record-specific last-review date supplied. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.