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Want to woo Chinese buyers? Solve feng shui puzzle first

2014-08-11
Feng Shui and real estate

A surge in Chinese investment in American real estate has given agents a new puzzle to solve: the principles of feng shui and numerology.

The realization that these principles have a strong influence on Chinese buyers has led to a subtle swift in the marketing strategies of not only age...

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What types of homes Chinese buyers prefer in America

2014-08-01
Overseas Chinese property buyers

Apart from pumping billions into the American economy, there is another reason as to why real estate professionals love Chinese buyers. This segment of foreign buyers really has money to burn.

Chinese buyers paid a median home price of nearly $523,148 against the America’s average of $1...

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Top three reasons why Chinese are buying US properties

2014-07-24
Reasons why Chinese buy US real estate

The latest National Association of Realtors survey has established what every real estate agent in America already knows: Chinese buyers are on a home buying spree here. In fact, a dollar value jump of almost 72% in the Chinese investment - from $13 billion to almost $22 billion in just one year...

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5 things to help you make good first impressions when dealing with Chinese property buyers

2014-07-19
Chinese property buyers

Chinese real estate buyers are known for treading cautiously when purchasing a property overseas.  They often take a lot of time to research the market, a given property and the agency involved. As they may be sceptical about many things while buying a property in an unknown country, brokers...

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Three things smart real estate agents should follow to increase their Chinese client base

2014-07-09
Finding Chinese real estate buyers

Real estate agents in the U.S. are finding themselves suddenly caught up in the dawn of a new era. With the foreign investors taking the country’s otherwise sluggish property market by storm, the agents are on a roll as their phones are buzzing and email inboxes are flooded with enquiries from ov...

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Four unconventional ways of wooing Chinese buyers

2014-07-07
Attracting Chinese real estate buyers

From running websites in Mandarin to hiring Chinese staff, the real estate agencies are leaving no stone unturned to get their share of the swelling Chinese investment in the U.S. Billions of dollars are on the market so their desperation is natural, but it’s quite interesting to note that the li...

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Tips on using Social Media to attract Chinese real estate buyers

2014-06-30
Chinese property buyers and social media

Until the recession hit the US real estate market hard in 2008, only a handful of ultra rich Chinese buyers used to dabble in property investment here. These buyers were very rich, so most of them had friends in the right places to guide them through the buying process. But as Chinese investors f...

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US real estate seminar in Hangzhou (China)

2014-06-27
US real estate seminar

On June 15th 2014 more than 20 potential Chinese clients and business partners gathered in Hangzhou to learn about the USA real estate market.

Background

East-West Property Advisors, a US real estate advisory firm, was invited by an asset management company to present potent...

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Going Online to Woo Chinese Buyers? Learn How to Get Past the Great Firewall of China

2014-06-18
Online Chinese real estate buyers

The Internet is the best medium for corporations to enter new global markets. With no strings attached, it’s lightning fast, cheap and has an incredibly great reach, connecting the globe’s one part with another in real time. Real estate professionals are also using it to push uniform m...

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What are Overseas Chinese parents looking for when purchasing a home in the US for their child’s education?

2014-06-05
Overseas Chinese parents buying real estate in US

The trend that Chinese are becoming a prominent buyer of US real estate is well-known to most of us. As Reuters has reported recently, Chinese have become the largest foreign group of buyers of real estate in Manhattan. While much of the influx of Chinese money is for investment reasons, educatio...

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