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The Globalisation of Real Estate The Politics and Practice of Foreign Real Estate Investment

186 Pages

by Routledge

186 Pages

by Routledge

186 Pages

by Routledge

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Individual foreign investment in residential real estate by new middle-class and super-rich investors is re-emerging as a key issue in academic, policy and public debates around the world. At its most abstract, global real estate is increasingly thought of as a liquid asset class that is targeted by foreign individual investors who are seeking to diversify their investment portfolios. But foreign... Read more

1. The globalisation of real estate: the politics and practice of foreign real estate investment 2. Global China and the making of Vancouver’s residential property market 3. The (geo)politics of land and foreign real estate investment in China: the case of Hong Kong FDI 4. Courting the ‘rich and restless’: globalisation of real estate and the new spatial fixities of the super-rich in Singapore 5. The geopolitics of real estate: assembling soft power via property markets 6. Transnational real estate in Australia: new Chinese diaspora, media representation and urban transformation in Sydney’s Chinatown 7. Chinese Investment in Australian Housing: Push and Pull Factors and Implications for Understanding International Housing 8. Ethnic connections, foreign housing investment and locality: a case study of Seoul