Chinese buyers are buying US -British real estate?Expert: worthy of vigilance, some may involve criminal crimes

[Global Times Special Journalist Ji Shuangcheng Global Times reporter Yang Shasha] More Chinese buyers have recently appeared in the US -British high -end real estate market. According to the latest data from the American Real Estate Broker Association, Chinese buyers have become the largest local overseas real estate investment group for 10 consecutive years. In the high -end residential area of ​​Mifir in London, UK, the global headquarters of luxury giants Gucci was transformed into a private luxury mansion, and was stolen by Chinese buyers at a price of 55 million pounds (about 439 million yuan).

Hong Kong's "South China Morning Post" quoted the statistics of the American Real Estate Broker Association on the 20th that Chinese buyers, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, have invested in the US real estate market in the past 12 months as of March. The same period increased by 27%, with a total of more than 6.1 billion US dollars. 4/5 of the buyers are cash transactions, and Florida and California are the most popular investment areas of Chinese buyers.

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The American Real Estate Broker Association, which represents a member of the 1.5 million private housing and commercial buildings, said that in the past three years, Chinese buyers' investment ratio accounts for 2.6%of the US real estate market with a total value of more than $ 23 trillion. Overseas buyers purchased a total of 98,600 sets of existing houses, accounting for 1.6%of the total number of houses sold in the United States during the same period.

The fluctuations in the US economic prospects have also affected the confidence of overseas buyers. The above data is actually the worst in the US Real Estate Broker Association since the launching data tracking in 2009. The person in charge of the association said that the tightening of global tourism restrictions caused by the outbreak of new coronary pneumonia also had an impact on international buyers' home industry.

In London, the real estate investment market is recovering. According to the South China Morning Post, Gucci is located in the global headquarters of Mifain District, London. It has been successfully transformed into a Victorian luxury mansion and is now on sale at a price of 55 million pounds. The transformed residence is also the only private town villa on the famous local commercial street Graffton Street. There are 7 floors with 8 bedrooms. The interior of the mansion includes elevators, gyms, cinemas, swimming pools, sauna, steam bathrooms, garden terraces and underground garage. The British media estimates that the practical area of ​​the mansion is equivalent to 19 ordinary British homes, with a weekly rent of 40,000 pounds. It is reported that at least five buyers from Mainland China and Hong Kong have expressed their interest in buying the property.

Data show that the average house price in the Meifiel area is 2.72 million pounds. In the market choice of super luxury homes, the average price of local housing prices is 22.44 million pounds, second only to the Buckingham Palace area where the Queen Queen is located.

In recent years, there have been increased reports on Chinese people to buy a house overseas. Dong Dengxin, director of the Institute of Finance and Securities of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, said in an interview with a reporter from the Global Times that according to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange $ 50,000 facilitate foreign exchange purchase quota, but it is strictly forbidden to be used for unobstructed capital projects such as overseas buying and securities investment. It is worthwhile to buy a house in the United States and the United Kingdom, and what kind of capital flows to be flowed abroad. "Many people have previously used the" ant moving 'and other methods to use the amount of 50,000 US dollars around the surrounding people to ship the funds to foreign countries to buy real estate, "Dong Dengxin told reporters that this behavior violates the administrative regulations such as the" Regulations on Foreign Exchange Management ". Administrative penalties are included in the records of credit reporting, and even some behaviors may involve criminal crimes such as money laundering.

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