by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Sep 19, 2018 | Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
The NAR has released the latest Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate. It shows that foreign buyers bought 266,800 residential properties, a decrease from 284,000 from the previous 12 month period. The major foreign buyers continue to be...
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 16, 2017 | Canada and Canadians, Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
Overnight travel by Canadians to the U.S. for business and pleasure increased each month during the eight months prior to May 2017. And between Jan and April of this year, Canadians made 4.8 million non-business trips to the U.S., an increase of 6.3% over the same...
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...
