MENU

Recent News

Week of March 13th-Foreign Buyers Are Pulling Back, Realtors Say

March 13, 2016

Demand from foreign buyers is weakening, the National Association of Realtors says, undermined by a strong U.S. dollar and rising home prices.

Last year, many real-estate experts predicted that foreign investors could flock to U.S. real estate as a safe haven amid global economic tumult. Last June, Realtors reported that Chinese buyers had surpassed Canadians as the top foreign buyers of U.S. real-estate, saying this reflected growing interest in the U.S. as a secure place to park their money.

In fact, there is growing evidence that many foreign buyers have been pulling back, in part because prices in many of the cities they favor, such as New York and San Francisco, have risen sharply. The affordability of those properties is weakened further by a stronger U.S. dollar.  Read the story from the Wall Street Journal.



Return to Recent News Main Page


CA DRE#00529069


RSS 2.0   Atom