by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Sep 13, 2018 | Home Buying, Home Ownership
Feng shui is a Chinese philosophy that has the goal of achieving an auspicious and harmonious environment. It is important to Chinese-Americans, with 86% of those surveyed saying that feng shui will play a role in a future home-buying decision, and 79% saying they...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Dec 1, 2017 | Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
If you shop for a home overseas, work habits in many countries may be different from what you are used to. For example, in Spain, the siesta is sacred. People work from early morning until 1:30 p.m., and then in the evening from 5 p.m. on. From 3 p.m. until 4:30...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Sep 20, 2017 | Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
Foreign buying by Chinese has been strong across the United States for several years. In 2016 one reason was due to new capital controls were rolled out in January 2017, along with a new anti-money laundering framework. This accelerated buying before the deadline...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Aug 2, 2017 | Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
Foreign investment in residential U.S. real estate has skyrocketed according to the 2017 Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate. In the 12 month period from April 2016 – March 2017, 284,455 homes were bought by foreign buyers (up 32%), for a...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Jul 13, 2017 | Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
The National Association of REALTORS has released a report that shows strong foreign interest in U.S. commercial real estate in 2016. According to the report, one-fifth of commercial REALTORS® closed a cross-border commercial real estate transaction with an...