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Cashed-up Chinese buyers swarm Australia's housing market as the collapse of Evergrande looms
2022-01-08
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by:Skidmark

#7  Is this like all those foreigners a few years back buying decayed inner-city Detroit mansions in order to flip them? How did that go for them?
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-01-08 22:35  

#6  * lawyers and accountants... LOL: have to love auto-correct that outputs lashes when the user types lawyers
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-08 12:19  

#5  We gave an entire class of enablers who make millions off of foreign flight capital: Citigroup, BoA, JPMChase; real estate developers and brokers; tens of thousands of lashes and accountants; and of course the blue political class in CA WA and NY
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-08 12:18  

#4  Back when Japan was buying everything, analyst Ralph Acampora said, "That's fine. What are they going to do, take it back to Japan? They have to pay taxes on it here. The money spent to purchase it is now here."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-08 11:44  

#3  China limits foreign buyers to a single property.

Why doesn't everyone else do the same to them? They just buy these properties and then sit on them because their money has nowhere else to go. If they keep it in China, they lose it.
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291   2022-01-08 11:41  

#2  Vancouver in the antipodes. All those see-through investment condos.
Posted by: Nguard   2022-01-08 09:45  

#1  China's new San Francisco Bay Area.
Posted by: Vernal the Unfortunately Complexioned1975   2022-01-08 06:58  

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