What is heating up US real estate market?

With weaker and more volatile Chinese economy and the shift of the government regulation to promote outbound investment, China's overseas investment spree started in 2010, and the U.S. has become the biggest beneficiary.  Since then, a total of $50 billion has been invested by Chinese companies across a wide range of U.S. industries, and the U.S. real estate market has attracted $10 billion.  Now even more money are put into the U.S. real estate market for a flight to safety by Chinese investors due to the stock market crash that began in June 2015.  According to the Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA), real estate represents 25% of the total cross-border investment in the U.S. in 2014.  And Chinese investment in the U.S. real estate market is supported by: the high level of home ownership of Chinese people means they can sell off their second and third homes and release funds for overseas investment; Chinese policy liberation; the great number of Chinese university students studying in the U.S. and the creative financing through EB-5.  The full article could be read here.