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2020年11月25日发(作者：柳郴)
中国人去年在美国置业总额达220亿
Chinese buyers have become the largest source of foreign cash in the US residential
real estate market, accounting for nearly one in four dollars spent by foreigners
on American housing last year.

2013年4 月至2014年3月的一年时间内，中国人在美国置业总额达220亿美元，占外国人
在美国置业总额的 24%左右，相比前一年的128亿美元飙升71%。

China accounted for $$22 billion in international sales for the 12 month period ending
March 2014, or 24% of all foreign sales, up from $$12.8 billion, or 19%, during the
year-earlier period.

Total international property sales rebounded last year to $$92.2 billion, according
to the NAR's estimates, up from $$68.2 billion in 2013 and $$82.5 billion in 2012.
The total represented around 7% of the market for all US sales of previously owned
homes during the same period.

In recent years, American real-estate markets have been viewed alternately as a safe
haven and a bargain amid concerns over geopolitical（地理政治学的） instability or
unsustainable asset values abroad.

US real-estate also continues to be popular thanks to the dollar's weakness against
some currencies, though the currency advantage has dimmed somewhat for Canadian
buyers that had been particularly aggressive property buyers in the US in 2011 and
2012. Some agents say that American higher education is also a top draw for some
trophy-property buyers.

n buyers are being enticed to US real estate because of what they recognize
as attractive prices, economic stability, and an incredible opportunity for
investment in their future,
co-owner of a real-estate brokerage in Dayton, Ohio.

European and Latin American buyers have helped push prices of South Florida condos
to record highs in recent years, while foreign buyers of all stripes have sent prices
of new Manhattan developments to astronomical levels. Asian buyers, particularly
Chinese, have also been a major force in select property markets in San Francisco
and Los Angeles.

Overseas buyers tend to hunt for trophy properties. This helps explain why the median
purchase price to international clients ($$268,284 last year) is significantly higher
than for all sales ($$199,575). That's particularly true of Chinese buyers, where
the average purchase price topped $$590,000 and the median exceeded $$523,000.
Canadian and Mexican buyers, by contrast, appear to buy much more modest homes.

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